Back to the Future

10th May 2007 to be precise, the day I made my first venture into the world of Blog, and the topic?

Well I had just put Silver Crescent on the market and planned to use the social media platform to chart my progress to completion. Little did I know that almost 19 years to the day I would be publishing the same story.

Yes we are looking to down size and have started to look at possible homes to move into. We will not however put Weathers Towers on the market until we are confident we have somewhere we like to move into.

There are some scary parallels. The house next door is for sale as was the case in 2007, but they have a buyer, only trouble is they have sold for considerably less than we would expect to ask .  19 years ago  there was a financial crash which affected real estate prices in the same way as the Ukrainian and Middle |East conflicts are doing so now. Add the fact that every time Kier Starmer opens his mouth it somehow costs me money, and there could be a bumpy road ahead.

So lets see what sort of journey we embark on. Initial impressions indicate there is low stock available as people bide their time, and the houses which SWMBO does like tend to be in areas we would not wish to live. So we search the perfect (or 80%) property and then lets see who wants ours.

On that front, the pool has sprung a leek so we need to fix that first, it never rains but it pours!!   

Putins AD Vance helped by JD

 Goodness me, already the 2025 blog content is focusing on Donald Trump again. There is an expression used up North,  'Always the victim, never the blame' and I suspect that might just have crept into the presidential word bank, goodness me there is enough room for it.

Was Zelensky ambushed, or did he just misread the situation? US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, implied that the 30 minute exchange behoind closed doors did not go well and that Zelensky was the blame. Then Brian Glenn, a white House correspondent highlighted Zelensky's combat clothing as being disrestectful. Does he not do his research very thoroughly? If he did he might have found this.

Trump is a bully pure and simply, surrounded by likeminded people, many of whom  are on the Worlld stage for the first time. They are used to getting their own way and so the rest of the World are in for a rocky time in the short term. Maybe the Saudi's or Isreali's could advise on how to make people disappear?

Putin will be delighted to be Trump's new best friend and must already be working out how the Ukrainian Earth minerals can be divided up. Hold on to your hats we are in for a bumpy ride.