Don is Blown Away!

Published: April 21, 2013, 8:36 a.m.

b'It has been really windy here over the last week\\u2026worse than I can remember seeing it\\u2026.we had gusts of 80 mph\\u2026..my garden was devastated..it lifted metal tables into the air and totatlly destroyed a solid wooden bird table\\u2026.the March winds shall blow\\u2026..................................The government are going to cut benefits to make it more profitable for the scroungers to actually go out and find a job\\u2026which has upset a young single parent mother of three\\u2026she has been on complaining that she can\\u2019t afford to have her benefit reduced because she can barely survive on her present\\u2026wait for it\\u2026500 quid a week !!....she says it will mean her children wont be able to go on school trips\\u2026which makes you wonder what she is doing when her kids are in school ??....\\n \\nWe have just received a letter telling us we have to now PAY to have our garden waste bins collected\\u202635 quid a year\\u2026.which is O.K. I suppose\\u2026but this will obviously mean that our collection of morons wont pay it and will simply dump stuff in the street\\u2026on their way to the bookies\\u2026..\\n \\nThere were plans to have a lazer beam twirling out of the centre of the Mersey to celebrate the Olympics\\u2026but unfortunately the 2 million pound project didn\\u2019t happen for whatever reason\\u2026well it\\u2019s now been scrapped altogether\\u2026.it\\u2019s O.K. though\\u2026they have only wasted half a million on it\\u2026.\\u2026.I don\\u2019t know what planet some of these so called officials are on..and that will be the last we hear of it\\u2026no-one will be brought to task\\u2026but there you are.\\n \\nHad first rehearsal for the James Burton concert in July\\u2026the band are great\\u2026.Young fella on bass and his mate on drums\\u2026and my old mate Mick Davenport on keys and my old school pal Mike White on guitar (and MD\\u2019s the whole thing)\\u2026.I\\u2019m doing eight Ricky Nelson numbers on the show\\u2026.we virtually got it right in one take\\u2026.so I\\u2019m ready to rock !!!!!!'