It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor
Archive for May, 2009
Filed under This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
12 Comments CherryPie on May 10th 2009
Filed under Heritage, Out & About
PhotoHunt – In Memory
Thiepval memorial stands in an isolated windswept position and is the largest memorial in the world and was opened on 31st July 1932 by the Prince of Wales. It contains over 72,000 names of British and Commonwealth men with no known graves, who fell on the Somme between July 1916 and March 1918. Most [...]
17 Comments CherryPie on May 8th 2009
Myth 2: civil service pensions are ‘gold plated’
The myth
Parts of the media have pushed the idea of an ‘apartheid’ between public sector pensions and private sector pensions has grown with the public sector enjoying generous pensions which are gold plated. Public sector pensions need to be reformed as a result, it is claimed.
The facts
Pensions in [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 7th 2009
This is the first of a series of 4 articles that highlight some of the myths that the media and politicians spread about civil and public services. The information was originally published on the PCS website and I thought they would benefit from a wider airing:
Public spending growth will be cut from 1.1% next [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on May 6th 2009
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Out & About
Sharing Some Sunshine
As far as weather is concerned today was rather disappointing for a bank holiday Monday. I was hoping to get back out into my garden which is in need of some TLC. But due to the aches and pains after yesterday’s work it is probably just as well the weather intervened
So [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on May 4th 2009
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An Interesting Day…
…in History.
From the BBC Website:
On This Day
1942: The first ’selection’ for gassing takes place at the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1979: Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first female prime minister following a landslide election victory.
1980: Josip Broz Tito, whose rule had held the ethnic factions of Yugoslavia together since 1945, dies.
Comments Off CherryPie on May 4th 2009
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Oops!
I got a little bit carried away deleteting my earlier test posts from here and managed to delete my welcome message in error!!! But don’t worry the messages you left me are still safe and sound.
2 Comments CherryPie on May 4th 2009
