Changes, Lockdown and Chaos Part 1

 Well it certainly been some time since I last posted here and it much be nearly 10 year or something like that, and boy have I some post to write. I just hope that its not to long or boring and also explains in common terms what has been happening here in the UK.

So what’s been happening you may ask? and I would reply saying Loads!

Well here in the UK there has been lots of events and we had a run of elections and re- elections, and not forgetting BREXIT. What is Brexit? I hear you say. Well lets take a deep breath and start my post proper!

Well lets start in 2015 when Prime Minister David Cameron called a General Election and apart of the election campaign was that he promised that the UK population could have their say on the European Union (EU) and if we should remain or leave it. 

Anyway David Cameron and the Conservative party won the election and gained a majority so ending the hung parliament which we had since 2010. The election also lead to Liberal Democratic Party who agreed to support the Conservative Party and form a government from 2010 to 2015, had been nearly totally wiped out and lost the majority of their seats. I believe that this happened because the public felt that the Liberal Democratic Party had totally gone against what they were standing for so things like re-establishing student grants and scrapping the student loan system just to name one item (this was not the sole reason for their downfall).

So in 2016 the UK had the vote on leaving the European Union (EU). Which just over 50% of the UK population who were able to vote opted for leaving the EU While about 47% voted to remain. To be honest I believe that David Cameron had thought that the UK would have voted to remain within the EU, and he really used the referendum to shut up the backbench MP's who were anti-European and always a pain in the neck to any conservative leaders, so was shocked at loosing.  

During the weeks building up towards the Referendum I often went online to try and find websites that would list the reasons For and Against staying or leaving the EU, but doing these searches did not bring up any useful information, and I felt that the web searches actually reviled lots of dis-information or non neutral one sided arguments for leaving the EU, and not anything/reasons why we should remain, so I fully understand the British Public voted to leave.   

The following day chaos took control of the U.K. as David Cameron resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and as Prime Minister despite on the day of the referendum saying that he would not resign and that the countries of the UK needed a strong leader and stability.

This lead to the battle for who was to be the new leader of the U.K. this battle was won by Teresa May after there was some back stabbing, as Boris Johnston had said that he would run for the leadership and then his friend Michael Gove on the evening before Boris's announcement puts himself forward so Boris then said he would not put his own name forward. Of course we will never ever know what was really happening behind in the background as this could have been planned by both Gove and Boris.

So Teresa May became the second woman Prime Minister in British history, and Brexit Begins!

(Teresa May - To be honest I did not really like her, she seemed weak and when asked questions by the media she was prone to avoid answering what she had been asked and would speak about something totally different. Also during Teresa May's time of being Home Secretary she was responsible for the department during the Windrush Scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal) This was where paperwork for people from the West Indies  who had emigrated to the UK in the 1950's was lost or destroyed. These were people who had lived in the UK for 50 years and their children were suddenly thrown out of the UK and sent back to Jamaica and classed as illegal. Currently there are court cases being raised against the government over this, and some people have already won their cases. The MP Amber Rudd gets appointed as Home Secretary when Teresa May becomes Prime Minister as later on Amber Rudd resigns due to the Windush Scandal. Teresa May also sent letters to illegal immigrants telling them to go home, and a lot of other things which you would think as being racist).

So on the 13th July  2016 Teresa May officially becomes Britain's Prime Minister, and given a poisoned chalice of Brexit. One of the first Jobs for Teresa May had to do, was set up a new cabinet to run the country, (and to my surprise Boris Johnson get the role of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. I don't know if it was Teresa's plan and hope that would muck up doing the job and politically hang himself.) the second job was to set up a Brexit Negotiation department answering to the new Cabinet role that David Davies was given called: Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Boris Johnston did not stay in his job for too long and July 2018 he resigns along with David Davies as they don't like Teresa May's plans.

All seemed fair at first but then Teresa decided to take the country to the 2nd General Election in 3 years. Initially Teresa has said that the UK would not have an election after she became Prime Minister on the same grounds as what David Cameron had said where Britain needed stability. So on Thursday 8th June 2017 off we go to the Voting Stations and we make our vote. Unfortunately for the Conservative Party they loose their majority and yet again the UK has a hung parliament. The meant that Teresa May then had to find another party to make an alliance with. Now Personally at this point I thought it would have been a perfect time to form an All Party Alliance (and I posted this on my Twitter posts at the time) to deal with Brexit so getting every party involved and setting up teams to work together for the best of the country.   But No Teresa May did not want that and really wanted to make a name for herself and been seen as the new Margret Thatcher. So from that point onwards the government did not have the power it really needed to deal with Brexit and on key Brexit policy votes Teresa's Government kept on loosing so leading to stalemate where nothing seemed to be happening. 

On the 4th of December history was made when Teresa May's Government was found in Contempt of Parliament because  the government had 'failed to lay before Parliament any legal advice on the proposed withdrawal agreement relating the terms of the UK's departure from the European Union '

On the 15th January Teresa May had the largest defeat in the UK's Parliament history where the MP's (Member of Parliament)  voted against her European Brexit Plan which she had agreed with the European Parliament and there was 432 votes against the plan compared to 202 votes supporting it. Now as i Previously have said this would have never have happened if Teresa May had formed a Brexit Alliance between all the parties to have looked at the policies and had worked together to make the plan work!

Teresa then had 2 more defeat on EU Brexit Policies which then in turn would lead to her resigning on the 24th May 2019 officially she carried on in her post to the 24th July, during which time the Conservative Party pick a new leader who turned out to be Boris Johnston.  

The Circus arrives!

So the Clown called Boris Johnston becomes the British Prime Minister. Its strange to see that Britain went down the same path as the USA by the MP's picking Boris to be their leader. Now Boris Johnston from what i pick up like to be seen as a bit of a bumbling clown, who seems in a way a bit like Lieutenant Colombo the American detective. Behind the scenes though may well be a different story as every-so-often we hear from the press of how Boris is removing staff who have been in particular posts for 20 or 30 years and putting in his own people who may/may not have had experience in that particular area before. But really the man with the power is not Boris Johnston but a 'Grey Man' called Dominic Cummings who was originally an adviser to Michael Gove and now Boris Johnston's Chief Adviser. Almost all the Brexit Plans since the change of leadership has been directed by Mr Cummings. Anyway Dominic Cummings is a different story which i will come back to later!

Anyway as I was saying once Boris became Prime Minister his first job was selecting his Cabinet and virtually everyone who worked for Teresa May lost their job's. There was also a surprise as Boris gave Micheal Gove a role as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which i no idea what that job is about, and had never heard of the post before!

Boris then chose to prorogue parliament  on the 28th August 2019 as this was to try and block MP's from voting in a new law to block a No Brexit deal where the UK would just leave the EU. He/Boris's Government was then taken to court in Scotland where his actions were deemed to be illegal/Unlawful on the 11th September 2019. 

The 3rd September was a big day though in the UK Parliament as an MP called Philip Lee crossed the floor of parliament and took his seat with the Liberal Democrats meaning that Boris and His Government had lost their power and they did not have a 'Working Majority' meaning that if the Government put forward any ideas there would be less people in the government to vote it through than in the opposition.

Also on the 3rd September 2019 the other key thing that happened was that Boris ordered the 'Party Whip' (which means in common terms that they were thrown out of the Conservative Party) Removed from 21 Conservative MP's who had refused to support the government and supported a proposal by the opposition to the government, which in my 50 years of life I have never seen ever happen, and in my eyes if you are an MP you should have the right to vote against a policy or policies that you don't think is right and not to follow the crowd! That's the whole basis for Democracy!

October 19th 2019 OH No Not another Election? Ohh Yes there is!

After the fun and games of Boris becoming Prime Minister and his first few months of government. Boris decides and goes to the Queen and requests the dissolving of Parliament, and for the country to go yet again to the polls and for a new General Election. The intention was for the Government to retake power and to get a majority government elected. Its a risk and at the time a big gamble as Boris could have lost everything, but election day is announced. This takes place on the 12th December 2019 (which at the time i can kind of remember hearing was the first Christmas election in the UK for about 60 years), and The Conservative's win the biggest majority since the late 1980's!

I think that the real reason that the Conservatives won such a big majority is that the British Public has got really fed up with the impasse on BREXIT that was happening with the government, and they just wanted people to get on with the job!

I have not mentioned the Labour Party much in this post or their leader Jeremy Corbin nor did I mention much the Liberal Democratic party. But in both cases they lost votes because of their policies. For Instance Jeremy Corbin announced that he wanted to re-nationalise the Railways, and the power industries, so lining us up with some other countries for instance EDF Energy is owned by the French government and a bit like the BBC here in the UK, and SNCF the French railway operator is also owned by the French Government. Italy and Germany have a similarly set-up with both DB Rail and RailItalia. 

But Mr Corbin went a bit to far when he said he wanted to nationalise all the internet companies and telecom companies to be brought in-house and the internet to be totally free to everyone. I think the people of the UK also felt it would have cost the country far too much money (little did we know that within 6 months the government would be borrowing billions of £'s to try and protect the country from a 'Bug') 

The Liberals who had gained politicians who were previously members of both Labour and the Conservative Parties were to be hit hard, and loose even more seats in Parliament and were left with just 11 MP's. They also lost their leader who had lost her seat in Scotland. 

Meanwhile over in China Something was stirring. It was not anything to do with trade deals or the normal disagreements between the east and the west. It was something more, and it was to affect the world as we know it and to turn things on their heads! this thing was a microscopic entity and related to the cold a flue virus and was given the name Covid 19. 

 I don't know how historians will look back at this part of British history and I wish I could jump into the future to see how they will write about what happened, but it will certainly be interesting to see.

Time does fly!

Well it's been over a year since my last post. So much has happened.

In my last post I was writing about my grandmother, and about her being in hospital. 

It was a sort of tribute.

Well the moment I hit the post button on my phone to send my blog I got a phone call from my father to say my grandmother had passed away.

It was really strange that I was writing about her life and posting it as that happened.

Well since then lost of other things have happened too!

In January I was told that my job in Network Rail had, had its end day brought forward from September to June.

So I had to start job hunting.

I had lots of internal interviews but non lead to a job.

Then late April I was called for an interview with a company called Carillian Plc. 

It was for a Document Controller, but when I was at the interview I discover that it was also for the senior role if Documentation Manager.

Anyway to cut a long story short I was provisionally offered a role and that it was the Documentation Manager the senior role!!!

As I had told the person who had interviewed me I was going on holiday the week after the interview they felt it was fair to advise me of the offer so I could think about it while I was away.

This now leads me to my holiday. 

This year my May holiday took me  to Portugal and it's capital Lisbon. 

I decided not to stay in the city centre but  along the coast in Estriol. It was great decision but it was only on the first two days that it was got enough to sit on the beach. The only problem was I chose to explore the area and also go into Lisbon's city centre.

That meant I missed the the sun. 

The rest of the week there was more like a traditional April here in England where when it's sunny it's warm but when the clouds come over it got windy and cold.

Lisbon is a great city. There was far to much to see in the trip I made, and I will have to stay there again.

If you was to make that trip I would recommend people to stay in town of cascais as it has far more to it than Estriol.

I also upgraded the standard of hotel to a 4star rating as I would normally stay in a 3 star and was picked up at the airport.

While in Lisbon I saw the castle, the old port, the cathedral and went on about 5 different sightseeing busses.

Now the sight seeing busses was a god thing as one of the routes they ran started in Cascais into Lisbon City. So I caught that.

It turns out that some of the key government departments are on the road  Estroil. 

When I returned from Lisbon to London and returned to work I was called into a meeting with my manager Mat Lettman.

It was to tell me that network rail wanted to re-extend my redundancy date to the 30th September!

I was asked to think about it and report back to Mat if I wanted to stay on.

Then during my second week back in the office I received the official offer of employment with Carillian.

Well due to the lack of job offers at Network Rail I chose Carillian.

Now that reminds me!!!!

Just before my trip to Lisbon I had attended a job interview within network rail for a Document Controller. The role was within a new project relating to traffic management.

I was rejected. I was told that I did not have the management experience as they were looking for People with management skills.

I was also told that, "I was the strongest person for the role"! 

A week later the job was re advertised and there was no changes to the job description to show that they wanted a manager.

So it was one of the key moments that lead me to take redundancy as I had seen it happen to 4 other people I had know working in the company, all of whom had lots of experience.

It actually worried me as Network Rail seems to want to get in lots of graduates who have no knowledge of the railway and get rid of staff who had 10 years or more experience.

There was a numerous occasions where a  colleague and myself have had to sit with managers explaining to them why things had to be done in certain ways due to the lack of knowledge, and could lead to key things going wrong.

Well that now leads me to Carillian plc.

So far the job has felt like an up hill battle.

Like all new jobs it's getting used to processes and systems.

Then there is getting used to the people.

Ignacio is my boss, and he is a great person. He was the guy who interviewed me. He is Spanish. He loves morocco and surfing. Ignacio is one of 4 design managers.

Then there is Richard he is a manager but thinks he should be the boss of the document control team.

I will be honest he is a nice guy too, and has taught me lots.

Richard looks after the Asset Information team and deals with project handover.

Then there is Jas. he is a perfectionist. If something is not done his way then it's not good enough.

Unfortunately he has found lots of fault with me, but I have tried to please him by complying with his requests.

I have also learnt how little, a former manager who I now knows could sell you a penny and make you believe you bought a million pounds, taught me in the way of teaching others.

This manager seemed kind hearted but now I believe he held people back so he would look always good at what he was doing! The reason I say that is because when it came to the crunch I knew far less than I thought and it was in all the areas the my old manager taught me.

Well in September I went to cyprus. It is the furthest east I have travelled.

When I went there I started to read a book about the Byzantium Empire and when I hit the chapters about the church and where the basic Christian doctoring was written and decided upon, I was happy to find it was written in Cyprus.

While there I visited an abandoned Ancient Greek City (I think it's called Salamis)

which was then occupied by the Romans and was the city where Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas preached. I did not know that Saint Barnabas was stoned to death by the people of Salamis until after my trip there.

For the history I will have to research the island more.

So what else has happened?

Well in the last year I have met lots of new friends and also found some old friends.

I also lost some friends too.

I discovered the App called Skout where I could chat to people around the world. 

It's has been quiet cool I have met some great people and some strange people.

But there I one special person who I met and she knows who she is. "The Pirate Princess" who stole my heart. I plan that sometime soon I will meet her.

Right at this very moment I am traveling the London Underground and this train is so full. It's standing room only but not much more people can get on the train.

This year the underground - which is the oldest in the world hit 150 years old. To commemorate this milestone Transport for London ran steam engine pulled carriages on the Metropolitan Line this is because Metropolitan Line was the first line to be built. When it was first built it ran from Paddington to Aldgate, then over time new tunnels were built and in the early 1900's linked together to form the circle and also the district lines. During the building of the Metropolitan Line the people building the tunnel hit the river fleet which brought about the deaths of a lot of people and the flooding of the new tunnels.

I hear that rumours say that London is the most tunnelled under city in the world. I don't know how true this is?

Well my travels home take far longer that they ever did before due to the fact I live in Essex and work totally on the west side of London. Infact on a good day it takes 2 hours!

I don't mind the travelling as I sit back and relax. Some days I read and other days I listen to music. While today I write!

Well the Christmas season is upon us, and I will use this point to sign off.

I hope you all have a great Christmas and of you do not believe in Christmas I hope that you have great holidays.

All the best for 2014.

J

 

The Ups and Downs of Life

Well hello everyone, yet again it's been some time since I up together a blog.
I always have the plan to put a new blog together but.....and there is always a but, I do not seem to get a post put together.

Well in my last blog. I wrote that it was holiday time again. Well since that blog I have not been on one holiday, but taken two breaks. The first one as I previously mentioned in my previous blog was to southern France and the city of  Nice.

Nice is a really nice city. Very expensive as I discovered, and very nice. The only drawback of Nice is that there is no sand on the beach, but large rocks. Mind it still did not deter holidaymakers and locals from sitting on it enjoying the sun.
The city has some great shops, and sitting on top of the hill where he old town used to be overlooking the two parts of Nice and taking in the vista was so nice though.
During our holiday in May at Nice we also went to Cannes via train. Cannes I think is a better holiday place than Nice as it has the sandy beach then it's old town on top of the hill and the newer town which is at sea level. There are loads of great little streets whith lots of tourist shops an regular shops. The day we arrived in Cannes was also the first day of the film festival, so it was smothered in Hollywood people and cameras.
The other trip was to Monti Carlo. That trip was 1 week before the F1 show arrived in town so all the stands, pits in the pitlane and the like we're set up. Surprisingly Monti Carlo was cheaper to buy food in than Nice.
The conclusion of my Holiday is that I would go there again.

The second holiday I took was to Alghero in Italy. It's the second time that I have been there and we chose to go there cos I wanted a holiday where I could crash out.
I am not sure if I wrote about Alghero before, it is a city in Sardinia that as once ruled by the Spanish from the 1300's to the 1700's.

Of course during the summer we had the Olympics. During that time I volunteered and was a travel champion based a Fenchurch Street.
I did not get over to the Olympic Park apart from picking up my magenta and purple uniform. But I met 4 team members of the Mexican handball team, along with 4 team members of the Parraguie handball team. Then I met a Cannadian Swimmer. It's a shame I did not get their names.

Well that was the upside of life. Now to the down side.

While I am writing this blog my grandmother is in hospital. It's terminal cancer I am afraid.
My Grandmother has had a long life and is 94 years old. I will be honest there are not many 43 year olds who have still any of their grandparents still living....but I have been so lucky.

So my Grandmother has seen the world change and has met lots of people.
Before the war my Grandmother trained to be a Salvation Army Officer (like her mother) and that was how she met my grandfather. She gave up being a Salvation Army Officer do she could look after my Great Grandmother when she was ill. Then later on married my Grandfather. There is a lot more to my Grandmothers life to which I do not know about, and I wish that I could know about. But I know that her life has affected so many other people's lives for good reasons and I thank god for her life and the prison she is and has been.

Well I know that this is a low note to end on, but I will be back. When I am I may write more about my grandmother and her life, or more about my holidays.

See you soon.

Holiday's a coming

Well it's that time of year when people's attention begins to turn towards their holidays. Now for the past three years Nicole and I have been going to Italy, but for a change we are going to go to France. The area that has been picked is the city of Nice, which turns out to be a town that was founded by the Greeks way back in 350BC and was named after the Greek goddess of victory called Nike (Now that gives me a thought...was the sorts brand called Nike also called Nike after the Greek Goddess?). Later on the Town became Roman. Jumping forward now a few hundred year Nice in 1388 came under the protectorate of the Savoy's and in the 1500's the Italian language became the official language of the people's and government....so there you have it dispute picking a place in another country I am off to a place that has its routes in Greece and Italy!!!
Well I will speak more of Nice in a few weeks once I have completed my trip!

See you all soon now

Joolz

It's been some time!

The reason that I have called this blog 'It's been some time' is due to the plain simple reason of 'It's been some time' since I made my last post!

I have been thinking about what I should write for ages now but then every time I came up with something I was just too lazy to sit down and write!

Anyway what has been happening I hear you say please tell us what you have been doing!
Well the plain simple answer is 'Not A Lot' to quote Paul Daniel's catch phrase. By the way Paul Daniels was a TV magician who appeared on British TV in the late 1980's early 1990's on a Saturday evening hosting a light entertainment show that contained comedy, interviews and of course magic! At that point in time there was still only 4 terrestrial TV channels to watch, and Sky TV along with BSB had only just launched.

So returning back to my blog - What have I been up too? Well I started to learn Italian with a company called City Lit. Well the course was OK in a way but at the same time I was not happy with the outcome, but people keep telling me it takes time to learn a language so I have swapped school and have resumed my lessons....in fact last night was my first one and it went well. I also enjoyed it far more better!

Where I work has gone through yet another re-organisation and there is yet another one due in the autumn. I can understand where these two reorganisations are taking place but it is very frustrating and totally distroys staff moral as they do not know where to turn. But hey a change of Goverment has brought about this set of changes as they want to make their mark!
Take for instance the UK railways. A few years ago now the EU made a law requiring each country in the EU had to open their railways so companies like SNCF could run a train from say Rome all the way up to Glasgow and that there should be a separate company responsible for the tracks. Well in countries like Germany the government created DB Rail and a company DB transport (or near enough to that standard) but both companies are still owned by the German government like wise a simulate situation has occurred in France.....But here in the UK the Conservative government of the 1990's chose to totally privatise British Rail. Now not many people knows this but at the time of Privatisation British Rail used to have the largest privately owned Telecom network other the British Telecom. Well the British Rail Telecom Network was one of the first assets to be sold off from the railway that has meant that the Uk Rail Network has since that point had to hire telecom bandwidths from a private company who now owns the original railway telecoms network!!!
Anyway over the last 5-6 year Network Rail has now had to build a totally new telecoms network from scratch just so in the long term it can save money!

Similar situations will have occurred in the case of the NHS, Employment Services and other areas where the government has partly outsourced departments so leading to the fragmenting departments which in turn lead to higher costs, and also the weakness to be taken over by companies that only want to line their own pockets.
Now don't get me wrong I am not against privatisation, but I believe that there are certain companies or organisations that are best run by the people who know their business from top to bottom but who are willing to hear and explore new ideas, and also should stay within government control but at the same time the government should allow them to run without to much interference!

I could carry on so much more about this subject but I shall leave off that for now!

So what else has been happening?

Still in the News is the Euro and the issues in different countries that are a part of the union. I think that this is going to be a very long drawn out story and it will be nearer 2015 before things settle down.
It was 100 year ago that the unsinkable ship sank so there has been loads of news stories about that.
Then if you listen to Italian Radio you will have heard that the former Primeminister of Italy Mr Berlusconi is in the courts at the moment over some sort of sex scandals it's a shame that I could not understand the news properly as then I could have blogged more about it!

Well next Month I am off to a city that for the past 150 years has been a part of France prior to that it was Italian and called Nizza or these days called Nice.

To be honest I am not looking forward to this break as the Hotel does not have the best write up and it's the first holiday that we are not booking as a package. Well we will see how we get on and I will report back after my trip.

Of course that is still near enough a month away so I may well add a new blog before then.

All Change and Action

Well in 9 days time the 1st month of the year will have passed!

So what has happened in the last 19 days. Well I started a new job (mind the job has a short shelf life of 1 year so I still have to look for another new job.) then I have just completed my first language lesson (my second one is tonight.).
In the world the Euro crisis is still rumbling along, with Greece looking like they are going to default on the loan again. Italy has put in place it's austerity measures to try and cut back on Government debt, and key member countries in Europe like France have had their Credit Ratings lowered. The week before the Credit Ratings were adjusted France was advised the their rating was going to be cut and there was uproar in their government and there was lots of comments saying that Britain should also have their ratings cut as well.

Speaking of Britain...over here unemployment has risen again, the price of living has fallen for the second month and the government has given the green light or permission for Highspeed 2 railway to be built.
In Scotland the politicians of the Scottish National Party are campaigning for full Scottish Independence (which is an old story really but has gained momentum over the last year).
In North Korea the leader died on a train, and his son is now the new leader.
The West are still not happy with Iran as they continue to develop their Nuclear plants. Of course we will not truly know what's happening there as the West will have their point of view as will the leaders of Iran.

Returning back to Europe again now and back to Italy. During the last 7 days a giant Cruise Liner ran aground because of what looks like its Captain showing off to a former ships captain. The captain then fled the ship and has since been arrested........So yet another story to be followed.

Otherwise there are no new stories to report.

The End of an Era

Well the year 2011 is fast drawing to an end, and it was certainly an eventful one!

There was the Arab Uprising which is still happening in some Arab countries then there was the fall and death of Bin Lardin & also Colenel Gadaffi.
The last of the Space Shuttles was retired.
One of the sad things that happened was that My friend Major Janet Gilson was murdered while she was on holiday in Hong Kong. I knew Janet as we both attended The Salvation Army in Catford. At that time Janet was working at The Salvation Army International Headquarters Youth Department while I was also Working at The Salvation Army International Headquarters in the Savation Army's bank called Reliance Bank.
Major Janet was one of the nicest ladies I have worked with and she loved children and her love took her to Russia where when the USSR collapsed the Salvation Army took over the running of the orphanages there.

2011 also saw the end of the team that I have worked with for the past 5 years so the week before Christmas I said goodbye to two colleagues, Brian & Paul.
Both are good guys and I am sure that at some point in the future I will meet them again, but it was sad to see the backs of them.
Also this year I said goodbye to some of my other friends in Network Rail, 2 of whom are now in Australia, one in Egypt and then my friend Adam who seems to be enjoying his new life in Israel.

Also in Network Rail we gained new leadership, who within days of officially taking the reigns made their mark and changed the direction that the company was going.

The European Economic continued and as I posted in an earlier blog we will have see what the outcome will bring

There was so many other things that have happened as well that I cannot list them in my blog, but most people will know about in their part of the world!

So 2011 seems to have been a year of change, with the door closing on some chapters in world history and personal history, and then the opening of doors and chapters to new stories yet to be written!

Well readers I hope that 2012 is a great year to you all.

Happy New Year to one and all!