Do you still buy flowers for your partner or wife for her birthday? Go out for a romantic meal with candle flicking away on the table and getting merry with the wine? Or splash out for naughty weekend away? Or just end up like me in the doghouse on a regularly basis?

So then if like me have a family rent to pay plus bills how can zero hour contacts benefit people like me ? The truth is it can't how can it? Your employer rings you up when they feel fit to do a few hours of work that will not cover your daily living. Unions don't have the power they once did to protect workers rights that are second fiddle as employers have the final say. Notice the rise in pound shops anyone thought why these shops came into been? The truth wages are falling behide prices year on year its a downward spiral that no party wants to tackle. We need low prices to bring down the cost of living its total madness that can only end one way total collapse.

We're we live now we have neighbor who cuts his lawns in the dark and never in the daytime. I once lived in a flat before I met my partner had an old guy who did the hovering at 3am later when living in Costa Del Arbourthorne in sunny Sheffield had a neighbor who used to have a shower in the early hours and loved to sing at the top of his voice problem was he couldn't sing a note and not forgetting the 5am disco on wheels man why invests in a alarm clock when you don't have too?

July this year was recorded as hottest on record perhaps a sign of environmental change. I often hear the older end talk about the blazing heat of 1976 how water was rationed and the ground spilt open due to the lack of rain what do you recall of this summer?

My Dad is thinking of buying a bungalow up their and moving from Newbold as Mum is struggling with the stairs. Is the park a retirement place and what is the area like is their easy access to public transport ?

In my job I see people who have come to the end of their life's journey I often met their relatives who will tell me about their family members life. The one thing Iv noticed is the older the deceased the more fulfilled life they have had. Yet in their day their was no Internet perhaps if the person is old enough might have in WW2 but despite that the overall impression is a life lived. Today its very easy and possible to live life online and never leave the house. We can buy online , bank online, social media, watch the news as it unfolds. No doubt the Internet is a fantastic tool but the other side of the coin  is it can leaves us socially isolated believing the world around us is a dangerous place true some is well placed fear but the media love to make a mountain out of a molehill. We have ATM's now so no need to go into the bank any problems we are given a phone number face to face contact is almost a rare event. Humans need to socialize to keep happy and to keep mental health problems at bay . Just recently I read a news article about an Italian couple who are in advanced years the neighbors rang the Police after hearing shouting and crying was heard. The Police visited the couple the upset had been caused after watching the news it had upset them also they had no visitor's for years the Policemen cooked them a meal and cheered them up such cases like this show how we have drifted apart to the point that even family no longer care for each other. I dont proclaim to have any answers but their is a real danger here that technology is over taking us without us realising it.

Very much enjoyed the opening of the Olympics the music was spot on not so good for Russia with 180 sportsmen's banned. By that going to look forward to it.