Moan

I am the last person in the world to prevent anyone having a rant and a rave in print, after all I have done so many times myself. Indeed you only have to read my opening statement on this page! However, I am fed up with all of those Facebook entries which highlight pat statements lifted from various published works, or passed on, that complain about what goes on in the UK by accentuating acts that take place in other hard line regimes, usually of some barbaric or exaggerated punishment for a seemingly minor misdemeanor? 
Yes the UK has an easy going, some may say generous, in it's way of dealing with immigration. Yes perhaps we do give benefits away too easily? Maybe this country is a little to liberal in it's attitude, often to the detriment of it's native population. Ask yourself this, would you rather live in a regime where liberty is trampled and freedom severely limited. Where they have a justice system that is dictatorial and has no room for flexibility and sentences are far more draconian? 
There are many countries in the world where these things that we take for granted have no meaning, where what we understand as fair and just is crushed underneath the boot of an oppressive ruler or religious creed or both. The price we pay for democracy and freedom (such as it is) is a generous society that accepts people from other places. We may not like it and we take the good with the bad. 
The UK does appear, alongside a few other nations, to be the policeman of the world and for good reason, we are good at it. The reasons are not always clear and no doubt our involvement is based on false premise and commercial and economic protection (oil?). Our presence is not always welcome, often by us. I for one would rather we withdrew from Afghanistan but at the same time depending on who you believe, we have achieved a measure of success, in a country, where it is proven that any success is hard if not impossible to achieve.  
To all of you people out there who wish to complain or use a ready written complaint about this country in which we live, just stop and think would you rather be in these places you often compare us with? I think not. Britain is 
not the best place on the planet (not even close!) but it is far from being the worst. I understand the posting of these statements are to make a point and often it is a point worth making but try writing your own prose and not publishing glib ready made moans! 

After three months of work, I have joined the unemployed again. No big deal another employment will come along at some point. The need for work at my age is purely for monetary purposes, I have no ambition or desire to start any kind of career. The desire is to do as little work as possible for the most amount of reward! It may sound mercenary but that is the truth of it. I have often discussed in this blog that there must be an alternative, legal, way of earning without necessarily following the well trodden path of the last, however long it has been, years of jobs as we know them. I will not re-iterate the plethora of other self- employed directions one could follow, most, if not all of that lifestyle crap is bollocks! 
On a lighter note I have started drawing again, I had forgotten the pleasure it gives me, I am not a good artist but I do have a style all of my own? I like patterns and shapes and how you build up a picture from a few lines into what some may consider a mess but at least it is my mess here is a sample: