The Slippery Slope!

OK, I found out today which school I'm going to be teaching at after the Summer, and it was just as I had expected! I don't have a problem with it, it's a half hour commute, but it could have been much worse. Unfortunately it's in a town with a fully spawned ned culture going on, but I guess I'm just going to have to go in their kicking ass right from the start, metaphorically speaking of course!

Just another 3 weeks and my course will be finished, so unless I get pushed into a job of some sort, I'm hoping to have some time to catch up on all the books I've been accumulating over the past year. I'm fairly certain I've got some good reads laid by and I've been sorely tempted to get stuck in on more than one occasion, but if I had it would have been to the detriment of my course. I'm fairly certain of that. I'm just not good at juggling several balls simultaneously, another metaphor dammit!

Think youseleves lucky if you're not Scottish, we now "officially" pay more tax than any other country in the World, and fuel prices here are now more expensive than any other country in the World. In other words, we're being right royally screwed! It's starting to feel like the early 1980's again, when the cost of living was out-stripping income. It's not so much the pinch, as a downright grab really. Gordon Brown is trying hard to stop things slipping, but everything he does just makes it worse. Blair stepped aside at the right time, perhaps he saw the way things were going and it was, "Over to you Gordon"!