Hmm… really should update this more often, not that many people care I imagine… so this is yet another pointless insight into my mind and my life at the moment.

Not much has happened, hence the lack of updates… Alfie’s growing bigger by the day (and eating more by the day too!!) - loads of photos of him here of course

My three rants at the moment are both traffic related;

Firstly the “A77 Safety Group” summed up very well by morph - her rant about the non-sensical 50mph limit on the A77 Dual Carriageway (it’s always good to mention the ABD who have sensible policies and ideas!!) - loads more people agree that this is another stupid decision by the A77 Safety Group

Secondly, the introduction of completely pointless double yellow lines ACROSS THE FRONT OF OUR DRIVEWAY which are unenforceable (yet) anyway and look unsightly!

Lastly, the governments continuing obsession that cars are the cause of global warming… as an excuse to get us all to pay more tax… Sheep are a bigger problem than cars !!

Cars are responsible for 16% of UK carbon dioxide emissions, which are 2% of total international emissions, and overall mankind is responsible for 3.4% of total annually cycled carbon dioxide (according to the IPCC). So cars are responsible for only 0.01% of emissions

Despite calling on drivers to adopt ’smarter driving techniques’, the Department for Transport seems to be doing exactly the opposite when it comes to roads:

• Speed humps and traffic calming obstructions increase emissions due to the constant decelerate/accelerate process.
• Traffic lights on some roundabouts operate 24 hours a day, even in the middle of the night when there is virtually no traffic. This both wastes electricity, and increases fuel consumption due to drivers having to stop, wait, and accelerate away, even when there is no other traffic about.

Both of the above from the excellent Act on CO2 pages

Ah well… end of rant… can’t think of much else so I wont bother, we have a week off work ahead though - yay