the view from here
Posted by Nicky on Thursday Mar 25, 2010 Under web gemsSo I have neglected this ‘ere blog for a while, eh? Well I’m here now and preparing to give it some TLC and more time and attention in general….
So today is a day at home because my body has done a full on FAIL. So to keep my mind off the fact that everything Hurts Like Hell I’ve been amusing myself by reading the debate that Amanda Palmer set off on Twitter about Lady Gaga’s latest offering. Swinging between people accusing Palmer of being jealous, agreeing with her, mocking Gaga or just generally commenting on the state of the music video, the OP has retweeted some of the (no doubt many) responses she recieved and I found it quite entertaining in my addled state…. and all this appears on my main twitter home page interspersed with Gok Wan’s randomness.
In another web mini-world, I’ve seen many people’s status updates expressing their distate at what’s happened with Darling’s 2010 Budget. Most of that has centred around the rise in duty on cider (can anyone explain to me why it’s been treated differently?)
Also unimpressed that pharmacists can still refuse to provide prescribed medication on the grounds of their religious beliefs. Especially seeing as sometimes contraceptive drugs can be prescribed to help relieve health problems! Being told where you could go and get the drug from instead isn’t a fantastic solution if there’s only one pharmacist in the area….
Anyway.
March 25th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Hurray!
Sorry you’re feeling rough.
I can’t believe I’m going say this, but there’s an interesting piece on the FT website that answers your cider question:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0f12080e-37b0-11df-88c6-00144feabdc0.html
Get well soon.
March 25th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Ooh ta, thanks…. I need to sign up to read it though
I see the title though, health concerns?
My recent post the view from here
March 25th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Poop. I wasn’t registered when I followed the Google link. Two main reasons – to bring the duty back in line with beer (cider had been charged at a lower rate for years), and to stop kids buying huge bottles of White Lightning and getting pissed in the park.
The latter’s a false argument – kids will always buy what’s cheapest, and if cheap and nasty cider gets more expensive, they’ll start drinking something else until the government puts those prices up too, and so on. In the mean time, all our nice and more expensive anyway drinks are massively hiked in cost because some folks can’t bring up their kids properly. Joy.