Retirement and Environmental Overview.

At long last I've now managed to sit down and construct a new addition to my previous blog which was in 2007 (shame on me) regarding my pet subjects: Retirement and the Environment.

Without making any excuses I have been pretty busy trying to supplement my retirement income by creating designs on T-shirts, Caps, Mugs and Stationery, and you can find those highly creative designs at my main website which is at www. colintonwigglys. com. plus my wife's input with her healthy recipes.:-)

Moving on, and getting into the subject matter. These latest increases in gas/electricity and other commodity prices especially here in the UK, will certainly have a dampening effect on the elderly and with winter approaching, I just hope that this warming of our planet according to our scientists, will be a mild winter and not to severe, else we elderly are going to be in a spot of bother,in consideration that the energy suppliers are going to hike up their prices, and I do not see how our fuel allowance that we already get will be enough to cover that increase. But never mind you can always put another jumper on, or stay in bed till the spring arrives.

I personally feel it is all a bit of a joke if it wasn't so serious. As these energy companies continue to make huge profits for themselves and their investors. Moreover, I maybe wrong in my assumption, that traders who deal in those type of commodities to include oil, should be coming under the spotlight by our government, in the way that dealing is done on those commodities, and the massive profits that are being made is quite unbelievable.

Our present government in the UK has suddenly woken up to the reality(a little bit to late in my opinion) when they must have seen how this was all taking shape, taking aside the "credit crunch" which again through shear greed, has put a great many people in an awful position including we folks who are over sixty.

You did not have to be an economist or genius to see where this was all going to lead, long before it all broke down. Note: I sometimes wonder if we are living on the same planet at times.

A number of my chums who are retired/semiretired like myself had been voicing their opinion about this two and bit years ago, but voice your opinion to the powers to be, and they think that you've stepped out of a Christmas cracker. Knock,Knock anyone in there, are you listening.

Well after that bit of a rant, where do we go from here, well for a start I hope the UK government will again focus, on increasing the pensioners winter fuel allowance, and also to the less fortunate, and start bringing those energy companies a bit more under control as they are running riot at this moment in time, and I am beginning to wonder if we have really lost the plot.

I am now going back to my designing , have to make some money for my next fuel bill. Will be back again with another quick rant from the colintonwigglys . Keep safe and well until the next time.

Jimmy and Constance