Seems there has been an accident in the Motor Business! It's nothing serious, just a couple of thousand Milliarden (that's round about $2,000,000,000,000,000,000:01 - but then the $ isn't valued as it used to be ). Now - instead of using this great chance to avoid the catastrophy previewed by all the experts, the same experts are going to advise paying! They started by telling us that our overfull roads and parking spaces were killing the planet, and we would have to do something (expensive) about it! SO - instead of stopping production of more planet killing monsters, they want us to subsidize them - even more! Tell me - what use is it to put a monster that's going to kill you in the end - back on it's feet...? Did David do it to Goliath...? Why, tell me, can't this money, if it's available, be used for new industry, new products, and preferably ones which won't kill us all now - or later? It's all most strange, the powers that be are able to find t...

It's a bewildering place, this world. It's the Christmas period, so the French (as here in the town of Colmar) decorate - just the same as the British, German, Dutch and all the others. Most of them have spent the last couple of months worrying and complaining about the Financial situation, but now we're up, up and away.... Electricity is FREE (at this time of the year) and the planet warming effect means we don't need to heat our homes as much (I've got just about 20C in my place, with everything pumping out full power-anything else and the wires will melt) - Bewildering too the news from London. Right now, with everybody telling me that the British have been overliving for decades, that Credit Cards are almost unobtainable, "Summerfield" have decided to change (and open to the impoverished public) the "updated" site - here in the picture - at Shepherd's Bush in London. They've changed it so it looks like this: It's got over 280 sho...