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\u201cReality continues to ruin my life.\u201d
\u2015 Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to write about something that affects everyone, not mental health for a change, but about the cost of living crisis we are in at the moment. How does it affect us? What can we do to stop it? it’s a complex issue which is blamed on multiple things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The COL started just before the Ukraine was invaded by Russia, then the markets slowly started losing hope and most things crashed. Before we knew it, 10%+ inflation on everything. Petrol was hit really hard with is almost reaching \u00a32 a litre which is insane. The government took action but this is where I run into a problem. For all the work they are doing, why hasn’t it dropped yet, inflation I mean. I know they are probably stemming the tide of it but I’m getting sick of a weekly shop costing in excess of \u00a3100, where as it used to be well under \u00a390. I know that doesn’t sound much but every little helps because the bugger of electric\/gas bill is on its way,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a separate note there are food shortages which I don’t think even gets a mention on the news anymore. Shops are stocking less because some products are hard to get hold of. Brexit must of had a big effect on lorrys coming over with goods. Then there is the egg problem due to avian flu. I miss having chickens, at least then we had a resource of our own. Dont think the neighbours would like it much if I built a coup out back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are starving. People are freezing, People don’t have eggs. For some reason this isn’t mentioned much on TV. Almost as if they are avoiding segments about it. Its a shame though. Unless you are on benefits you don’t get the extra payments. You feel guilty for putting on the heating. Since I work from home mostly I set it to 17c then increase it when the kids and D come home. Probably doesn’t help that I’m running a home lab for web dev.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To conclude; I think its a downside of living on a relatively small island who have voted themselves out of Europe, a war in Ukraine costing billions and avian flu. Not that I’m against helping ukraine but I think the people of this country need help as well. We are being forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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