Child benefit cuts - the frog in cold water

The theory goes like this:

You throw a frog into a pot of hot water, and the frog will jump straight back out again. Throw the frog into a pot of cold water and it will swim around contentedly, not realising that the water is getting hotter and hotter.

So imagine the outcry if the government announced it was abolishing child benefit.

Instead, they will abolish it for high earners.

Makes sense doesn't it? If someone is earning £1,000 a week, why would they need £20 child allowance?

It will make it more complicated to administer now of course. People will have to assess the income levels of claimants, instead of everyone with a child being eligible. I don't know how much extra this will cost, but more importantly, a principle is being established here.

And a year down the line, it will be people earning £500 a week that will no longer be eligible. And peope earning £200 a week the year after that.

Feeling the heat yet?


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Mmmmmm....

An ice cold glass of...

Ribena.

I really don't want to take the first step back to where I used to be right now.



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Day of rest

Tomorrow, Friday, is the first day off I've had since January 2nd. Even when I've not actually been teaching, I've been doing quite a lot of driving, to pick stuff up for the shop.

So hooray! Tomorrow, I can do what I like.

In practice, I will wake up early because my body clock is so used to getting up early. I will get up, because I just can't lie in bed once my eyes have opened.

My desktop computer has once again developed a seemingly terminal problem with it's hard drive, so presumably, some of my time will be spent shoving a different one back in (I have loads of semi-knackered hard drives to choose from) and  reinstalling the operating system and all the multifarious gubbins that make the graphics card and sound card and wireless internet bits function properly. Again.

Tonight, a part of me thinks I'm thirsty and tired. Another part of me is thinking just how nice an ice cold tequila flavoured lager would be right now, and that having done all that work, I sort of deserve it.

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Sliding along nicely....

This is by no means the finished product, but here's where I'm up to.

http://www.paulsharpdriving.co.uk/test.htm

Currently the images are not clickable. In the finished version, each picture will send the delighted clicker off to it's own dedicated page.

The images themselves are really just to make sure the concept works. The final images will be substantially different (probably) The layout will become more compact. I will have 4 or possibly 5 pictures in the slideshow. The current order of slides is not how things will be when finished.

But apart from that, it's exacly how I want it. :)

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Slip slidin' away

While keeping the same basic format of HOME | PRICES  | CONTACT | LINKS, I have plans to make the "HOME" bit a bit more razzle-dazzle.

What I have in mind is to create a series of images, each of which is made up of text and an image. The text would be in a light colour, the image would be colourful. The background would be #000000. The image would occupy almost all of the area beneath the link bar and logo.

Then, probably after reading this tutorial about a hundred times, I will copy and paste the code and modify it's contents to point to the images I've created.

The result being a slideshow of images, each of which can be clicked to take the viewer to a page on the site that gives more information. Not tonight, mind, but in the next few weeks hopefully.

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