Time for a rant!
I object.
I object to giving money to the robbers and swindlers who got us into this crisis.
I object to giving money to the bankers who supported the constructors who created the bubble which burst over us all.
I object to giving money to the bankers who sold the idea of easy credit: "Get what you want, when you want and get it now!". They sold 30-year mortgages, the construction sector collapsed and people are now being evicted and living in the streets.
I object to paying massive pensions to bankers who have already lined their pockets with our money.
I object to paying money to bankers who got us into this mess and having to listen to them telling us what we must do to get out of it: "tighten our belts", when they will never go hungry or suffer at the end of the month.
I object.
Please, someone read Fritz Schumacher: "Small is Beautiful". Send free copies to the bankers, politicians, economists and CEOs of the globalised multinationals.
27 Jul 2012
16 Jul 2012
I'll soon be putting up some photos of the guitar I'm making at the moment. I got the plans for a 1959 Gibson Les Paul from Stewart MacDonald so that is what it's it's going to be (with a few slight changes: for example, I've put a thin maple back on it as well as the carved-top maple - so the body is going to be a mahogany sandwich. The neck's going to be maple as well, but Gibson made some early Les Pauls with maple necks anyway, so that's not too much of a change.)
I'll go into more detail, with photos, in a few days.
I'll go into more detail, with photos, in a few days.
11 Jul 2012
This is my first Blog so I'm going to make lots of mistakes that we will, very kindly, put down to experience.
Firstly, I ought to introduce myself. I'm an English teacher and the director of a small academy of English in Zaragoza, Spain. My main interest outside teaching is the guitar, playing the guitar (mainly Blues), making guitars, fiddling around with guitars and listening to music, especially - surprise - the Blues and old rock from the 60s and 70s, though I will sometimes make exceptions with more recent music by people such as Seasick Steve.
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I suppose it will be reasonably simple, therefore, to imagine that most of the blog will be about teaching, teaching English, the awful state of English teaching in Spain (there are some exceptions), guitars and music. In short, whatever interests me and that I would like to make public or let off steam about.
Most of the blog will be in English (give my students some practice) but Spanish might appear occasionally.
You'll also notice that the design of this page is very primitive. That's one of the first things I'll start playing around with.
Firstly, I ought to introduce myself. I'm an English teacher and the director of a small academy of English in Zaragoza, Spain. My main interest outside teaching is the guitar, playing the guitar (mainly Blues), making guitars, fiddling around with guitars and listening to music, especially - surprise - the Blues and old rock from the 60s and 70s, though I will sometimes make exceptions with more recent music by people such as Seasick Steve.
I suppose it will be reasonably simple, therefore, to imagine that most of the blog will be about teaching, teaching English, the awful state of English teaching in Spain (there are some exceptions), guitars and music. In short, whatever interests me and that I would like to make public or let off steam about.
Most of the blog will be in English (give my students some practice) but Spanish might appear occasionally.
You'll also notice that the design of this page is very primitive. That's one of the first things I'll start playing around with.
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