When I try and think what is the reasoning about keeping the Euro in circulation, I cannot for the world of me come up with a sensible argument.
Greed is the main reason for the total failure of the Banks (With a silent W), Bankers (Again with a silent W) have been the curse of the twentieth century. Some would say war, but wars are about money too.
Timothy 6:10, if you read your religious books, got it right by penning, “For the Love of money is the root of all evil. Some people eager for money have wandered from faith and pierced themselves with many grief’s”.
The death of the printed word is nigh, however our thirst for the written word needs to be sated. Most normal people today get their news, books and magazines online. This has seen a slump in the sales of printed matter over the last few years, with many well-known publications folding, so to speak.
Many of the UK national papers and broad sheets all have an Internet edition, which allows you to access it from the many modern communication devices available.
In Gibraltar we have seen many local interest magazines migrate to the Internet, but many still keep a death grip on the printed version, to keep their advertising clients happy.
Pain is a mere sensation that must be enjoyed, this is part of the mantra I repeat to myself when dealing with constant back pain.
Chronic pain is something that cannot be described nor shown to the medical profession and because of this, chancers will use the whole back pain deal to get a few day off work, as doctors will always err on the side of caution, giving people with real pain issues a bad name.
Those that do suffer from the real deal will have gone through the wringer when seeing a doctor. First there is the waiting on a steel chair, sometimes for an hour, sometimes more depending on how many hypochondriacs have arrived in front of you.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water
The quality of our beaches, at least on the eastern side, has been a cause for concern for me since last weekend, when I took a walk on Catalan bay and came away with my feet covered in what seemed a greyish fine powder.
I have been told that the same powder can be found on Eastern Beach and would have been found as far as Sandy Bay had there been a beach there.
For all the works that are being carried out in the area, the one that raises most eyebrows is the East Side Project, which is once again under full swing with the large sea defences going up every day.
Well like most things that are neglected it was only a matter of time before something, like the serious incident that occurred yesterday, happened. Many people have been complaining for months, if not years, about the state of the border standing security, and the illicit activity that occurs daily in these areas and by the airport.
Gibraltar, like every other border area around the world, is also a sump where the scum collects in large groups of unemployed rabble hanging around making the place untidy. The unsavoury characters that do this have done so with impunity for so long that any curtailing of their lucrative activity results in them taking offense to something which they believe has become their right.
So why has it taken so long to plug the Rat Run that is the tunnel works, that these people have been using? And why the over reaction of police officers this morning when I took a walk down to the East Side of the Airfield on eastern beach to take some photographs?
