David's blog

I am still pissed off with the PIP situation, I haven't heard anything regarding the appeal. I spoke to friend last night who has had his result and is 4 times better off than me, I don't think his situation warrents such difference. I know that his eyesight is quite a bit worse than mine, but we are both registered as blind. It just goes to show that this PIP is a bloody farce thought its not funny in relaton to the pain it causes but it seems it a lottery where if you turn up on the right day you get the 'jackpot; it stinks really.  They took the money off me even though I had been through the humiliating process.  The whole thing makes me very angry really, maybe I should tell them to shove their money these people are vile.  The way they are behaving is no way to treat people who are disabled and sick, they really stink.  I never asked for this benefit in the first place, I was given the chance to apply and did and was given a life time award, well that's what ...

Well its been a tough time lately, health worries, money worries and wretched neighbours and now some bad news about a friend, well maybe I was not that a close friend, as this person died alone in their flat recently, I heard today.  In a close community such as Blaenau Ffestiniog you don't really expect to hear about about people who have been dead for a few weeks before no one finds them.  I think this kind of thing is common in impersonal places like big cites but not its a bit of a shock to find it happens in small rural towns. I knew this person was not well and had been unwell for a long time, and if he did not check himself into a care home or someone else do it for him it I feard the worst really.  The last time I saw him he was very uncomfortable, he had a multitude of problems.  His passing will relieve his pain but it is a shame that it was in such circomstances, this guy was very independent and maybe that is one of the reasons why it did end up like ...

Well its the Olympics so I decided to get active, so I decided to try a bit of wils swimming yesterday.  The place where I went was a lake which is on now a closed down golf course.  When the golf course was open, people use to lose their balls in there all the time and some locals used to go swim in the lake to find the balls and then sell them in the golf shops around the area.  My brother was one of those who went golf ball hunting. he used to go with a friend and his canoe, my brother use to dive for them.7 When I got to the lake yestday, which is known locally as llyn Pencefn, I was a bit apprehensive as, the media is full of old or middle aged men diving into things other than the municple baths and coming a cropper or even worse just ending up dead, probably due to their age and the condtions, no fool like an old fool I guess.  Anyway I had come prepared so I thought I would first dip my toe in like you do, in most things in life, in doing this I felt slippe...

The danger of the internet came to the fore again this week.  The girl who probably tweeted about the Welsh language did not want everyone to see it. I am sure she will not make the same mistake again or maybe she will.  Its quite easy to forget that what you write on here is there for the whole world to see sometimes this mistake can be classed as naive, but I guess when you are not thinking, which I guess you should always do really when posting on here, it is very easy to make a mistake.  I know I did it a few years ago and suffered the consequences.  On here the printed word can be taken out of context and lead to backlass as happend to this BBC researcher.  I had a go at this BBC person whihc was wrong I guess in hindsight as I have done the same thing so I suppose I ahould have had some sympethy. I blasted some people for the way I was treated in relation to something, I blasted them on here, the mistake I made was that they were local, I did not in my m...

This week the Welsh language seems to have been picked on a bit. I obviously speak Welsh so am a bit protective of my culture.  Last week the media wer having a go at the Eisteddfod for the fact that the they were not honouring the Welsh football team and were putting down to the fact that that the team, though some do, do not speak Welsh,  I am sure the  Welsh football team were not that interested in getting something from the Eisteddfod anyway.  The next episode was a woman on a programme about Pwllheli, who did not want her child being taugh through the medium of Welsh, she seemed to want it treated like the French language is treated, in basically an area where Welsh is gpoken by most people, and where the culture Cymreag is alive and well though it would nto be if were for idiots like this woman. What chance does the Welsh language have it even inhabitants of the area do not respect the language and the culure.  The third episode of the language being pick...

Well the weather has been appalling for the last couple of days so been couped in here really, too wet to go out.  The summer seems to becoming a total washout at the moment, this is sad we are getting too much rain as it is, it seems to be increasing every year.  I know there is nothing I can about it, only complain and I guess there is not much point in that, as no one will listen. I do it I guess as it gets rid of the frustration of having shit weather all the time which is annoying, but I suppose I should not let it get to me as there  is nothing that can be done.  The weather does affect people though, people are generally happier in the sun than a drab rainy day. Today I download a synthesiser called Dune 2, it is the demo version so a lot of the functions do not work on it and I guess not all the presets are there either, which is understandable as they want you to pay for the thing.  It is the foot in the door method selling I guess.  I do like th...

I spent a large part of this afternoon, giving answers to questions to someone who was filling in the PIP for me.  I was doing this as they have decided to stop my DLA for some reason, therefore I have to reapply for the disability benefit which is now called PIP. The questionaire was not very nice as I had to tell them how, show them how disabled I was, basically prove that I was worthy of getting this pittance I get every month.  I have received this pittance for over 20 years and have relied on it for that length of time, they said I could have it for life but they have reneagedc on that deal surprise surprise, its very hard to take anything that people say today, as honest and this is very sad state of affairs. Now that I have filled in the form, I more than likely will have to  go for medical test, to 'prove' my disability I will feel like a performing seal.