David's blog

Well, the weather is very cold right now a bit premature in relation to winter but its dry which I guess is the most important thing. I have been watching sport most of the evening, and that means watching Chelsea playing Spurs and they won and were I guess a bit lucky to win they managed to carve out a win.  It seem Wales won the rugby game too, which does happen very often against South Africa. I have still not heard about the benefit thing, I guess the result will be that I have to go to a tribunal, and apparently that is year off, which is a long time. I have spoken to a few people in my a similar situation to me and there are all of the opinion that this system is not doing what it's suppose to do and that it support the sick and disabled people.

Well its the tradional village fair today again, like most things these days, it seems to come around quicker every year a sign of getting older I guess, I wonder if time speeds up when you are younger and when do you notice it starting to speed up, at what point, or does it happen at different times to different people? The fair has been getting smaller for many years now but it still keeps going, I guess this year it probably clashed with other markets or fairs somewhere else. There was hardly anyone there this afternoon but it seems to have picked up this evening. I am not sure what I think about the fair really, I guess I have other things on my mind at the moment like this constant pain I get every day/

I acheved a musical ambiton on Saturday night, I heard the above song beng performed live and I did,'t have to go too far to achieve it, only to the local pub.  I had heard the song many times and think its one of the best pop songs ever written in the Welsh language.  Its just a feel good tune from beginning to end and it must be great fun to play it and see people jumping up and down to it.  It is just a very catchy tune and you can't help but smile while listening to it. The version on Saturday night was not performed by the band who originally did it who were Anweledig, but by ex members of that bad, who are now called Brython Shag, this version sounded good anyway.  When I was growing up I was as bit snobbish about Welsh pop music I looked down on it a bit but now I regret this as I did not go and see the band who performed it I did have plenty of chances but didn't take them I will not make this mistake again and look down on Welsh pop music  or l...

This is just more on my mistreatment by the Dept of Work and Pension regarding the Personal Independence Payments fiasco.  Last week I spoke to friend who is visually impaired, but otherwise fit and healthy.  He made a claim for this PIP and was awarded three hundred pounds a month due to his disability, great you might say, he his getting help with this disability.  Well I guess he is getting financial 'help'  Now its hard to get work in this day and age in this country and the statistics prove its much much harder for visually impaired person to get work, primarily due to ignorance on behalf of the employers, but I believe also that its due to the benefit system. Visually impaired people are as if people didn't know and it seems a lot don't, are human beings, so, I believe if you give them enough money they won't want to work and if they have enough money and are struggling to find work in the first place, they have an incentive not to 'try harder' and ...

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...