Yesterday Wednesday 22 April was going to be an eventful day Paige was due to have her casts removed from her legs, I had promised when she got home I would take her to the toy shop. The ambulance collected them and off they went to Southampton, it all went well Paige helped the nurses remove her casts, then it all caught up with Paige’s brain. The brain suddenly realized that the muscles had been cut and start sending little electric shock to the transmitters and her legs and arm were jumping around without her control and this caused her a lot of pain, she also became very frightened.
When they arrived home I could tell instantly Paige was in shock, as Mummy and Graham laid her in her bed, poor little thing looked so pale with big eyes staring back at me she said Granny I am so sorry I cannot come to the toy shop I am not well my legs are still broken, I reached down and gave her a big cuddle, how I wanted to take her place, it will get better but it is going to take some time for Paige to build confidence in her legs that the pain has stopped.
Driving home I turned the radio on, nearly forgot it was budget day, now I wish I had, extra tax on wine and booze, tax on cigarettes and on fuel, it is only the poor who will feel this effect. I know they have a problem with binge drinking but for the rest of us hard workers on low incomes it is nice to have a glass of wine with dinner, or is it thought that the peasants should not enjoy a glass of wine. Cigarettes yes I know they kill and I have never smoked but again to some it is there only pleasure, as for fuel, low income families cannot afford holidays so taking the kids to the beach for the day might be all they can do, fuel increases could well stop this.
Is there an answer, I am not sure but I do think that if they put up the tax on the large cars and very fast cars and left fuel prices alone it might have been better and as for the wine why can they not only tax the higher wines which sell at over £7 so it gives the everyday person the chance to have a little bit of pleasure in life.
Tomorrows another day and I hope the sunshine will make me forget the doom and gloom that seems to be everywhere or at least I hope a certain little girl will make me forget it.
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