virgin trains - ticket to london

Bloody hell!
i have just tried to get a return ticket to London with just over 1 month in advance notice. travelling on saturday and sunday.
the cheapest ticket was £125 return off peak.
standard open was £188,
first class was £288,
and business was £788.
are they kidding?
its actually cheaper for me to get a flight to dublin, then a flight from there to london.
crazy.

EDF - gas and electricity price hike!!!

Here we go again, yet another fuel price hike, and this is a big one.
Approx 22% rise on duel fuel bills with immediate effect.
The company still make large profits, which i am sure their shareholders will wish them to maintain.
If the Tory government under Magaret Thatcher had not privatised every British industry, i am sure we would not yet be under as much financial pressure as we are now with our crazy household bills.
At least if the industry was still government controlled i am sure that profits would not have been the first thing that the industry think of, and perhaps the nations struggling people would be the first person thought of.
At the moment nobody has noticed it yet, but when those bills come in after christmas, it will suddenly dawn on them. Its only going to get worse.
Invest in oil as it will be worth more than gold soon!

'Fuel Poverty' is a term i heard today, this describes the situation people are in when they spend 10% of their annual income on heating and lighting. Scary.

Where all f*$£@d!

Peak Oil - The End of the 'Oil Age'

So, it draws near. We are at the brink of collapse!
Millions carry on with their daily lives with not a care in the world.

We have hit 'Peak Oil' the point at which our fuel cannot be extracted as easy and the supplies start to dwindle. A scary moment, because we all rely on oil so much.
Once its gone, its gone.

My computer that i am powering to type this blog is fed by electricity created by oil, my food that i ate today was cooked by oil, my car that i drove to the shops today is powered by oil, the food in the shop was transported by oil etc....
Take away all the fuel and everything moves back to the Middle Ages only worse!

The huge growth in the human population and demand for food is at its highest ever, when the fuel runs out, where and how will this food be transported to the people? With difficulty.
The populations will panic as the food runs out, food riots have already begun around the world and they are getting closer to your doorstep!. Civilisation will break up and the human race will descend into chaos. Only the strongest and ruthless will survive.

Today:
First things first, today the fuel is rocketing, and this will not get any cheaper. Infact soon it will become out of reach for the common man, making businesses go bust due to transport costs and mass unemployment leading to record crime levels.

Commuting to work will soon be a thing of the past, those lucky enough to have a job will only work from their home or in their home town.

Of course as we can all see, rising fuel costs has led to rising food costs, once mass unemployment begins, food will become an issue for all as there will only be so much food available cheap, let alone as the supplies start to dwindle. Your 32 pence tin of beans will no longer exist and soon will be looked upon as a luxury.
Infact forget that last sentence, it will be viewed as a neccessity.

People need to pressure and educate people now, we are on the brink, but we can change the way we live if as a species we want to live on.
Hi-tech gadgets will be thing of the past soon unless we realise that immediate change is required now.

I am not a fan of nuclear power and I certainly would not want a power station on my doorstep, but we need as many of these built now around the UK and rest of the world, with the coast primed with wind farms as far as the eye can see. Places like the Moors or anywhere on a hill will need to have these windfarms built and fast, because we all use so much electricity and petrol, once the oil goes we could not support what we have now at all.

We cant expect our neighbours to help us out, as they will have there own to look after.

Expect a new cold war, with countries arming themselves to the max, as only the strongest will survive this, with many millions of casualties.

Tommorrow:
If we take action now, our future will be from the land and localised community. Everybody will be expected to grow food and trade. We will still live in our homes but these will be our shelters, no more tv and nintendo wii's, just wind up or solar radios and cold baths!
Cars will be a thing of the past, only emergency food rationing transport will be allowed.
We will need to stop our technological advances and go back a few hundred years, learn old skills and harness what we can from the land , water and sun.

I never expected this in my lifetime, but it is coming and I will see it. I am seeing it now.
Look at the front pages of all the newspapers, open your eyes.
Search the internet, read up on this issue then crap your pants.

Press the people at the top to deal with this issue now, because its moving faster than we are and I hope we can catch it back up!

Its bigger than any issue out there, but people are still to blind to see or too stupid to listen.
It must be resolved now, for our children to live in a world, not to survive and scavenge.

Perhaps, i am being too much of a scare mongerer, maybe i should be wearing an A-board sign with ' the end is nigh' printed upon it?
Or am i being a realist in a world that is about to make its biggest change in its history. Yes, I am scared, very scared infact, I just want us to do something and at least put up a fight when we make our last stand.
The 'Oil Age' is drawing to an end, what the next era of mankind will be I do not know, but I do hope its the 'Green Age' and not the next 'Dark Age'.

Darth Vader attacks Church of the Jedi

Funniest news story of the week.

Some teens in their garden in Wales are part of the 'Church of the Jedi' and where practising there jedi skills in there garden as you do.

When all of a sudden, Darth Vader (some drunk scally wearing a bin bag) jumps over a wall and attacks them with his crutch?

He has been convicted of assault.

Check the video on bbc news.

excellent

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7367631.stm

Raleigh Team Aero Burner Project

Whether through some mad personal crisis or retro calling, I have purchased an old Raleigh Team Aero Pro Burner, which I intend to restore to its former glory.
I bought it on Ebay for £141, which when I had my first Raleigh 'Black' Burner I suspect it wasnt even that much when new.
Its scratched, a bit rusty in parts, in all its seen better days, but i am going to restore it and show the results here. It will take a while but i will keep you posted on how its going.
Any questions please give me a shout, or any advice would be welcomed.
cheers
Rocky

I saw a sad thing today that puzzled me.
I was walking past a lamp post on a busy road and i noticed it had a sign attached to it.
The note was small and had a picture of a xmas tree and xmas decorations on it, with a picture of a present on it. The pictures had been coloured in and a small amount of words were written.
The hand written text had been written by a child to their father, who had obviously been killed at this spot, asking what he was getting for christmas and stating what the child hoped to get for xmas. The note was faded and had been there for a while.
It was very upsetting to read and my heart goes out to the child or children who have lost a father.

What i question is, why do people place signs at the scenes where people have died? would that person not have preferred people to leave messages or flowers at the deceased's favorite park or graveside. Perhaps write a letter and send it out into the wind? somewhere nice not where they where killed?
I would not like the scene of my death to be a place remembered every year. Remember the person, surely that is better?

Things are changing, and changing fast. People are all too stressed and busy to speak out or be bothered anymore. It wont be long before we are all fighting, fighting for fuel, its started, look at Iraq!

My household bills have shot through the roof in the last year or so, food is rising rapidly, just look at the price of bread and cheese, everything is rising fast. I will have to start shopping at Aldi soon!

Ultimately it is because of energy prices rises.
What pisses me off the most is the millions being made by all the fuel suppliers whilst the rising cost of the oil per barrel is going through the roof, all the end users have to make up the subsidy.

The governments...no the people should take back these industries and re-nationalise them, rather than cater for the shareholders, they should provide a service to there customers, that is reasonable and not a rip off.

The world is running out of oil, coal and gas, but surely in these advanced times, when we can invent crazy stuff, we can invest and invent green alternatives that will provide a cheaper solution than just burning everything that's left. Hey i can provide an enormous amount of methane (you wouldn't believe how much!) that might help.

What happens as we get closer to all these reserves running out. Well internationally it will pay to choose your friends wisely. Choose the U.S or Russia? Russia will probably be the better option they are already starting to kick ass , making moves to lay claim to the North Pole to drill all the oil out. When it gets serious, wars will be started.
What happens to the Middle East when the oil runs out there? Saudi Arabia is super wealthy, yet when there is no oil left, watch it turn back into a desert again.
We may see different countries in each region taking over from one another in the wealth stakes when they court the West to sell there reserves. Short term solution that will destroy the region.
Its that bloody sunny over there, they should have one large super solar panel, that would work perhaps. Didn't the Man with the Golden Gun have a big solar panel? maybe they should approach him, he seemed to know about controlling energy.

We just need to do something fast, because it will be in our lifetime that it all turns to shit, and i don't want to be here when it does!
Do something! speak up or cause trouble, piss off the people who tell you what to do! Draw attention to all the things that are wrong, the companies that rip us off and control what we do in our lives. Make the people who are supposed to represent us do something, if they cant, they should not be there. Rant over....for now!!