Breath threatening........inflation - fiscal - not inspiration....!

Guess you're all flinching daily at the unbelievable rate by which inflation is rocketing to unknown limits....scaaary, isn't it ? Talk about breathstopping....The really alarming aspect is that we mere mortals have no power to control it ....I'm principally addressing readers in the U.K. on the subject as I'm not sure if the same situation is affecting the rest of the world as drastically as it is here....? It's impossible to analyse the major reasons and motivations of companies and governments, plus all the conflicting religious faiths - man's inhumanity to man - does it always have to be so - whatever happened to 'the milk of human kindness' ...? One answer from my own experience is that there is always someone prepared to take advantage of "givers" = "the takers" !! Yes, I'm smiling, because I think its too late for me to stop trying to help in any way that I can, 'tis the way I was brought up....and so open to mis-interpration....hmmmm. Generally, it seems that the more compassionate and caring some people are leaves them wide open to fraud and duplicity, often from the least expected persons. Enough of this gloooom and doooom, yesterday I went to see "Mamma Mia" again, at a local cinema complex, on the pretext of introducing a friend to it, not that I really needed an excuse. It was even more enjoyable than my first viewing, noticing more subtle moments in the action. The difference this time was that, being outside London, I could use my Senior Citizen pass and benefit from the entrance fee of - £5 ! What value !! The other contrast - the cinema was packed - and sold out at every performance currently. My friend and I were the quietest members of the audience, can you believe, and the atmosphere was absolutely electric. Almost everyone joined in the singing, and the laughter was similar to that experienced at a Monty Python show - talk about fun. Then it dawned on me that the film is full of English "knock-about" humour. A little old lady sitting by me - her second visit too - (shucks - about the same age as me - ooops .) gently nudged me and gleefully chortled in my ear " This is our era, isn't it Dear " !! We were splitting our sides frequently, and occasionally shedding a tear - Oh, it really does you gooood to let everything go now and then ....As the weather is so good I'm cooking meals in the garden, using a variety of barbecues and a chimeni - the food tastes so good - I think people will start installing kitchen ranges in their houses again soon - I covet those of friends on Orno, and Mora, in Sweden....you know who ... happy days...My next trip there is to Stockholm, from 2nd.to 15th.Sept.2008 - hope to see, and breathe with some of you then.... and, until then - k..p b .......g...and DO go and enjoy "M.M" ..... let me know what you think about it....