Life, the in's and out's of

My Life, Your Life, Our Life

On 28th June 1919 British politician David Lloyd George, senior French representative Georges Clenceau and American president Woodrow Wilson Signed the Treaty of Versailles. With Europe devastated and 750,000 British soldiers killed and 1,500,000 wounded, the treaty was intended as a peach settlement after World War One (1914 – 1918). The treaty was named after its place of signing, the Versailles Palace near Paris, France. The palace was chosen because of its size and the hundreds of people involved.

A lot of anger and bitterness was aimed at Germany, not just because of the war but because of the Spanish flu that ran through Europe in mid-1918 killing more than 25 million people.

After Honda’s withdrawal in December BMW have now decided to call it quits after only gaining eight points this season, they originally gave them self’s three years to win the world championship.  BMW took over Sauber in 2005 and have cited “current developments in motor sport” as the reason for leaving formula one.

After a strong season in 2008 they still ended up third behind Ferrari and McLaren-Mercedes. BMW only managed second in 2007 after McLaren-Mercedes were excluded and came fifth in the constructor’s championship in their debut season of 2006.

After Brazilian driver Felipe Massa fractured his skull at the Hungarian Grand Prix during qualifying, Michael Schumacher is not ruling out possibly taking the injured Ferrari drivers place. The seven-time champion has been retired from Formula 1 since 2006 and is under contract to the Ferrari Team, working in a consultancy role this season.

Schumacher’s spokeswoman Sabine Kehm said that “Usually, I would say he’s not interested because he’s fine with his life and he doesn’t miss anything but now the situation is so different – it’s very hypothetical – and Michael doesn’t want to step into that [discussion],”

Why do council’s make things so hard or is it just me!  They (the council) say on the back of the council tax letters how easy it is to make payments, well have any of them actually tried. Option one ‘pay by telephone’, well this would be great if the telephone number ever worked. I gave up after the eighth try. Option two ‘pay on-line’, the system takes all your details including credit card number all goes through and you are lulled into a false sense of security when it says your payment has been authorised only to get a threatening demand from the devils them self’s saying you have not paid and it would seem that the on-line system did not actually take your money. Option three  ‘pay at your bank’. The bank manages to do their part and take my money but can the council recognise that it’s been paid, of-course not and again it’s another delightful letter from the men with horns and fork’s. You may think that the fourth and final option of a direct debit would be by far the easiest (that is if you trust a council with your bank account details) but no not for the council as they cannot even be bothered to set it up despite filling in the forms. Do the council care, do they bugger!