CHANGING FACES.

Having decided that there will be civil unrest this year, due to much of the public's lack of understanding the need to make serious savings for the country in order to avoid increased interest rates on the national debt, £4.8 trillion (£120 million per day is an awful lot to be paying out in loan repayments); we have decided to take breaks in this country for the coming year.

Our first venture was to visit a friend in Whitby, N. Yorks. From Nottingham we headed towards Newark along the A46(Fosse Way), obviously travelling a road that the Romans built and tramped along. Within twenty miles we reached East Stoke; due to dualling, East Stoke will have a by-pass. East Stoke is the site of one of the major battles of the War of the Roses, but more interestingly, it is the burial place of Great Britain's first ambassador to the embryonic United of America, Sir Julian Pauncefote. The village once sported a good pub/eating house called the 'Pauncefote Arms', which now happens to be an Indian restaurant.

Unfortunately, the situation gets worse. We travelled back on a different route, which took us through North Notts., Pilgrim Fathers' territory, north of Retford. Until the mid-nineties, I would call into an excellent hostelry in Scrooby, named the 'Pilgrim Fathers'; the place was always busy, with pristine decor. How the country changes! On driving by, it is obvious from the exterior that the building is suffering advanced dereliction, adorned by a well worn 'To Let' sign.

The moral here is about priorities; when a nation wastes it's energy on diversity, equality and short lists to prop them up, at the same time ignoring it's history; we will soon be pulling down the blinds on one the world's major contributors in the advancement of many other nations.

WE ALLOW THIS AT OUR PERIL.