School holidays have at long last, and even rather belatedly it seems to me, arrived in Norfolk.
The relevance for this blog is threefold. First, I know from experience that it means that traffic declines.
Second it means I write less often as I am distracted by time off and being dad on occasion. I am told that building a model railway, exploring rivers, taking photographs and tracking down birds of prey all demand my attention, and I'm a willing participant in them all.
Third, it means I moderate the blog less often. So if you have to wait for your comment to appear please do not start shouting about censorship or any other such string (as some always do). It will just be I have something more important to do. I hope you will understand.
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Richard, please relax and enjoy your time off with the family. And thank you so much for all your wonderful work – long may it continue.
i second the above comment – time with your children is precious. The present ethos is robbing many families of this as they work fourteen hours a day to feed the mortgage Moloch!
Enjoy.
When you return, we will be looking forward to your take on Labour engaging in tax avoidance with party funding.
Tell me more
http://order-order.com/2013/07/26/labour-lessons-in-reducing-your-tax-bill-to-zero/
You call that evidence?
And claiming losses avoidance?
Just a thought, why not get the young ‘un(s) to do the blog while you do the fun things? As for the model trains would the LNER be involved. Grannie used to say (she lived next to a railway line) you can judge a man by his boiler.
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What, no clarinet playing?
Hope that you enjoy your summer.
Richard, I echo Martin above, and add the following historical foot-note: the “Long Vac”, enjoyed by Universities, Parliament, the Law Courts, and now schools, came about in the Middle Ages when everyone involved in all those bodies was expected to go home and help with the harvest and other vital, but ordinary and everyday tasks. With the harvest in, they could return to their “ivory towers” or “grand occupations”, depending on what role they played in society.
So that’s what you’re doing – going home to tend to your own “ordinary, but vital task” of being with, and caring for, your wife and your boys. You – all 4 of you – have a good rest and enjoy yourselves. Then you’ll be refreshed and ready to return to your own grand, and very important, occupation of wising up the public to all the ways in which we, and most of the rest of the world, are being ripped off and scammed by some of the most duplicitous and conscienceless b*****ds in existence.
Well said Andrew -if only the great British public could be wised up – they are in love with their debt peonage at present!
Absolutely Andrew, Richard’s blog is much needed antidote to the pernicious propaganda rammed down the throat of the Public.
Richard please take a well earned break and make the most of the time with your family.
Enjoy your break and hopefully recharge .I have been tempted to offer you a holiday break where all the family could totally relax swimming pool and sun and a garden with all the fruit and veg you could eat maybe some day as a very heartfelt thank you for the vision and asperity with which you inspire most of your readers
Sounds good……