Croydon Guardian: Blogs

Staines Guardian reader Geoffrey Virr gives his pensioners perspective on life and the world today.

The pound in your pocket

My faith in ‘chip and pin’ having been dented, together with the disappearance of ‘cash back’ on card purchases, lead me to handle more ‘coin of the realm’ in the last year or so than I have done for many a year.

Don’t say a word against dogs, cats, or trees.

Long before the advent of today’s “politically correct culture” there were topics whose mention “society” frowned upon.

Look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves.

I am not sure I first heard the above saying when I was in the cradle but I am sure I heard it very soon after.

I say again: 'If you are not frightened you ought to be!'

The press again reports a story that should make every thinking adult's blood run cold and terrify every single child in the country.

Cigarettes and health

Yet again I am surprised that a news item which I thought would reverberate in the media died a sudden death.

If you are not frightened you ought to be!

The recent elections, in which Surrey Council residents had no part to play, set me contemplating what has changed in our lives, particularly during the last decade or so.

Catch it, bin it, kill it

“Money does not grow on trees”

The other standard quotation is "Turkeys would not vote for Christmas".

So what

Fifty years ago a certain viewpoint was attributed to me in some heated student discussion on a subject I can no longer recall. When I said that I had not said the attributed remark, the response was, “You may not have done, but if you had said anything, that is what you would have said”.

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