Rapid responses have a great deal to recommend them. If you have a problem situation to resolve, it is usually advisable to handle it quickly before things get worse. Conversely if you are waiting for an answer from some other person, the earlier you get the information or advice, the quicker you can take action. That all sounds fine and dandy, but we all know that is not how things turn out in reality.
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There is surprisingly little movement on the UK Frozen Pensions issue. 1.1 Million British Old Age Pensioners have chosen to spend their retirement years overseas and in doing so, they save the British Economy over 7 Billion Pounds every year. More than half of these receive the same pension as they would receive if living in the UK. The other 545,000 pensioners resident mainly in the British Commonwealth countries such as Australia and Canada have their pensions locked in value at the time they emigrated.
The UK Treasury would benefit from a change in policy and it would correct a moral debt of honour. However the number of MPs who support this long-needed application of the English principle of fair play grows only slowly.
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Google Maps has had a somewhat chequered history until recently. An example of a high visibility problem was that the Golden Ears Bridge in BC only appeared on Google Maps some 9 months after the bridge had been open and almost 3 years after construction started.
MapQuest, the competitor owned by AOL, was only a little better but that was no excuse for this less than stellar performance.
Some regard round penning as a controversial technique in horsemanship. Indeed a Google search on round penning has a critical opinion as the number one choice.
Will you be celebrating bonfire night this November 5th evening? That’s likely only if you live in the United kingdom, New Zealand or Newfoundland. Some call it Guy Fawkes Night and that seems to be catching people’s attention more this year. Apparently Guy Fawkes has become the face of the Occupy protests around the world.
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Many of us pride ourselves on our memories. If someone questions how we remember a given fact, we may even become somewhat irate. However scientists are now finding out that the power of our memory may well be set at our birth.
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If you have been hoping to see Jay O’Jay in action in Langley, where better than at the new and impressive High Point Equestrian Centre just south of Campbell Valley Park. He is giving a Horsemanship Clinic on Saturday and Sunday, November 5th and 6th 2011 and it runs from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm each day. The exact address is 658 200th St, Langley, BC.
This model village is like no village you have ever seen before. Don’t look for thatched roofs and quaint gardens. This is a village that has ambitions to be promoted to city-status.
This is a guest post by Dee Mason.
In most large cities, if you say the term “street meat” to anyone, you will receive a nose wrinkle and a full-body shudder in return. Everyone, at some point in their life, somewhere in the world, has visited a curbside food vendor.
The Horse Council BC will be hosting the second annual Equine Education Conference from January 21 – 22, 2012 at the Delta Vancouver Airport Hotel. I was most pleased to see that Dr. Andrew McLean will be a speaker. He has developed and manages the Australian Equine Behaviour Centre, the most internationally recognised horse training and behaviour modification centre in Australia.
