Golf has always seemed to be mucj more of a sport to participate in rather than simply one to watch, to me at any rate. I just don’t get it. Why do people want to watch other people playing when they could be playing golf themselves?

I enjoy the occaisional game of golf but have never been a man who would make my partner a golf widow but it is a challenging game and we all need lots of practice. There are lots of different training guides and golf training ideas for improving your game and I would benefit from a bit of study with them but I doubt I would learn much from watching the professionals play but maybe, one day when I am rich I will visit one of this big golfing events and see if I have it all wrong.

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Let me guide you through the way timeshare works is that a whole bunch of people each own a period of a week or more for the same property. If you own the first week in July that is your property for that week regardless of if you choose to use it or not. You can leave it empty but that seems like a waste of money.

You can usually let friends and family use the timeshare property for a vacation if you cannot go yourself. You may be able to rent out the property for your period of ownership or you may choose to swap your week with someone else who owns a timeshare property somewhere else.

The benefits of timeshare are mainly that it is cheaper than owning a whole property and it needs little management from you. The downside is that it fixes your vacation in one place but you may be able to do a swap and try different places around the world.

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Following his having been gored in the leg on a previus occasion a Mexican bullfighter was arrested for failing to fullfil the terms of his contract when he ran out of a bullfighting ring in mid-fight.

I can’t say I blame him and I imagine the stress and worry of his previous encounter weighed heavily on his mind. We think of stress as pressures of work but I hardly think that can compare to having a couple of tons of bull charging at you when you know how much it hurts when you get it wrong. He has since reported that he plans to retire and who can blame him for that.

You might care to think of this story when you are feeling stressed in the office.

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It may seem pretty obvious but hanks to the clean benefits of solar energy it has no such problems. Leaking solar energy is not likely to do much damage. We should be focusing more and more on the clean renewable energy technologies we have available to provide for some if not all of our energy needs and we need to put more effort into reducing our energy requirements so we can call an end to the oil based economy and start on the clean and renewable energy based economy in the future.

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The tyres made available for this race helped make it a great race because they were more subseptible to wear and damage causing the teams to try different strategies and have plenty of pitstops.

The tyre supply company may not want this sort of publicty but race fans will love it.Let us hope we get more races where the tires are marginal and require careful management.

The F1 season has been great so far and let us hope we continue to have these fascinating and exciting races right up until the end of the season.

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Didn’t we just have an iPhone released that was supposed to be the best phone on the planet? Oh, maybe that was a year ago. A whole year, wow. So what has changed since?

Sure, the iPhone looks cute and it is a beautifully designed little thing but does the world really need another 110 million mobile phones thrown in the rubbish bin because a thinner, faster, improved screen version has been released? Hopefully, the old models will be recycled but is the the great achievement of the human civilization, to be able to come up with another wasteful technology product that everyone feels they must have and then replace, every six or twelve months?

The success of the human race may prove to be its downfall. Like a virus that grows and grows until it eventually kills its host we have come to dominate our home planet. We have bred and increased the population to the point where the resources of the planet are being stretched to supply our needs and our needs have grown along with the population.

Once we would have been happy to have enough food to eat and enough wood to build a shelter and keep warm. Now, it seems, we have to have homes and lives full of technology that is draining not just our capacity to provide the energy to power all these gadgets but it is also draining us of the limited time we have every day.

Thre was once a time when a product had a limited lifetime. That time was usually limited by how long it would last before finally breaking down. With todays efficient design and manufacturing that is far less of a problem and manufacturers have had to find another way of convincing us it is time to replace a product.

The result is a constant stream of new releases. Just like with the washing powder adverts of years ago, each new version of our phones, computers, TVs and cars is New And Improved but can life be sustained at this pace?

Humans have been successful because we have been able to think ahead and learn from our mistakes and we are naturally lazy and always look for a better and easier way of doing things. We have developed technology that has enabled us to improve our health, our comfort and our lives to a degree unimaginable to people of a few generations ago but how much longer can this go on at the incredible rate of change we are experiencing these days.

A thousand years ago at a time when the Romans were conquering Europe people no doubt thought of it as the end of the world and for many of them, it probably was, but in those times change took decades or even centuries. Looking forward it is impossible to imagine what changes there might be in the next thousand years but one thing is very clear. We cannot go on as we are doing right now.

The popluation is growing enormously and there are few undiscovered places left to be exploited to supply our growing needs. Our demand for resources grows exponentially though the supply of those resources is finite and reducing as we use them. In the past plague, pestilance and wars kept the population in check while local supply of food and resources limited the possibilities of the local population. Now the worlds resources are available to all, at a price, but the cost is more than just money.

We have been on a consumption binge that has lasted twenty or thirty years but the financial impact of this became clear when the world financial system came close to collapse. Hopefully, we are working our way out of the problems that caused but it is easier to print money to sort out a fnancial crisis than it is to find the minerals and food to sort out a world short of both.

The simple fact is that we cannot continue as we are now. The new iPhone may be a magnificent example of man’s ingenuity, design skills and technological achievements but we need to face up to the fact that we need to reduce our consumption of the resources available to a far more manageable level if we want future generations of humans to have any chance of having a happy and healthy life.

The resources we are throwing away will not be replaced. When they are gone nothing will be left for the future. It may not happen within our lifetime but if we have any concerns for future generations then we should be thinking about the long term consequences of our actions now.

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They still cost an arm and a leg to buy even though their output was poor but they used ribbons for printing and the cost of ink was a small consideration.

These days the inkjet printer has changed everything and we can now print out top quality pictures and text that is as good as anything a print shop could do. The problem now is the cost of ink. While inkjet printer are cheap to buy the ink we use in them is very expensive and it only takes a few full page colour images to empty one or more of your inkjet cartridges.

Fortunately the size of this market of people who want cheaper inkjet supplies has led to a whole industry of compatible inkjet cartridge manufacturers appearing on the scene. I have been using these alternative suppliers for years and have been very happy with the savings in price and the quality of the printing. The printer manufacturers may not like it as it reduces the profits they make from supplying very expensive ink and they say that the quality of ink is much worse from the compatible inkjet suppliers but then they would say that wouldn’t they.

Personaly I have used compatible inkjet cartridges for years and will continue to do so while the branded manufacturers continue to charge such ridiculous prices for their official cartridges.

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Nevertheless, travel insurance remains an important item to be arranged when you make any travel plans. Most of the travel insurance policies will give you reassurance that if some sore of disaster befalls you while you are travelling there should be some help available.

An annual policy makes good sense if you travel several times each year but if you only go away once you might consider some of the shorter term policies which are likely to be cheaper.

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It would appear outrageous that David Laws claimed so much money in expenses for rent for rooms in a house he shared with another man but does it really make any difference?

If we are going to pay the rent for MPs should we care who it is paid to? If you happen to have a close friend or even a partner who owns a house in London why should they not be paid? You may argue that they would be living there anyway but that is only because they are in London to work at the Houses of Parliament.

We have a system of expenses that has been made full use of but which of us wouldn’t do that if we had the opportunity. in this case, if it is considered acceptable to claim an amount for rent does it really matter who gets that money? Whether it goes to a hotel, pays a mortgage or goes to some stranger, it makes little difference. The money is available and being paid out regardless.

What we need is a thorough discussion of what expenses an MP should be entitled to and my own opinion is that all MPs should be treated the same. I can understand an MP on the outskirts of London feeling a little miffed that he, or she, is expected to travel home each evening while another MP from somewhere further afield is allowed to have paid accommodation much closer to Westminster.

I am inclined towards thinking that there should be a standard grant of expenses paid to all MPs each year regardless of where there constituency is though probably travel costs should be an additional payment. Other than that keep it simple and let us get on with worrying about what government does and not how it is all paid for.

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Apparently they left empty handed and I imagine a little sheepishly and perhaps deaf from the blast and a somewhat shell shocked. I doubt the police are looking for anyone with previous explosives experience.

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