May Day Steamin'

With the new financial year only a matter of days away we are faced with the impending doom of large public sector employment lay offs, pay freezes and wholesale benefit cuts. This is the goverments tactic to improve public confidence in our economy which will potentially lead to economic growth. Many things have contributed to us skewing our perception that our national debt is out of control and that cuts and a new age of Thatcher-like austerity is the way to tackle our 'problems'. Outbreaks of revolution in Egypt and Libya has turned heads and dominated the general public's notions of the value of defence spending and our Cosmopolitan role in the world. Heartbreaking natural disasters in Australia, New Zealand and worse of all Japan have created stories of heroism and focused many on charity to help the ongoing respective relief efforts.

Next month (and just at the start of May) we will be forced to take 4 bank holidays. Two are the traditional Easter holidays of Good Friday & Easter Monday. The following Friday we will all be given a day off to gaup at the television at the biggest pomp and ceremony celebration for 30 years when the boring and bald Prince gets married to some posh horsey type from Middle England.

The real celebration will take place just a day later however, with the now annual "MAY DAY STEAMIN'. This is a celebration of all is enjoyable in our pathetic little lives. A lovingly relaxing bike ride into the Cheshire lanes last year descended into downright chaos of beer-spilling, blood spilling and a rather poignant and symbolic attack on the main instigator behind the budget cuts and our new found misery; George Gideon Osborne. So forget the Easter Bunny, chocolate, and Nicholas Whitchell on a 24 hour Royal love-in. Get prepared for a steamin' ride round the beautiful Cheshire countryside. You may just survive.