The Spirit Of...

Hello one and all,

I like Bob, he's a veritable mine of information. He was trying to explain to me that some of you humans will soon be celebrating Christmas. I don't know what that is, but it sounds pretty good according to Bob. He says that there is a spirit of Christmas, which to many is a special feeling, while to others, it's an open bottle of whisky after you've had a few drinks from it. Ribbit!!

He also told me that you humans like to decorate the inside of your houses with fairy lights and so on, some even put them on the outside, though I fail to see the actual reason for doing this? Are you hoping that aliens from another planet will see your property from space? Believe me, they won't want to come to anywhere near you. I maybe a simple frog, but I have heard of those movies, you know, the ones where you capture the alien, then you cut them up. I'm told that it's just to see what makes them tick. Now... that does sound familiar. Croak!!!

Bob says that for your human children, a strange man sporting a big fluffy white beard and wearing a bright red costume with massive great boots comes down your chimney... and then... he steals into your kids bedrooms in order to leave them gifts. Sounds fairly okay so far. Then he hops onto his sleigh, which is apparently parked up on your roof, then he goes off into the night to deliver more of his cherished Christmas gifts. Do you humans truly believe in all that guff? And I always thought my life was strange! Ribbit!!

Anyway, while you are all enjoying this festive season, I thought I'd tell you something else that Bob spoke to me about the other day. According to official statistics, it costs two thousand pounds a week to look after a child living in a local authority home. (Is this a lot?) Your government, in its wisdom, doesn't understand the reason why young children leave their homes, or the true reason why families split apart? Bob reckons that if most of your government ministers don't, or can't understand the reasons behind these facts, it's because their own incomes are so grossly high, they couldn't even begin to understand how the poorer families live. And what is often the greatest cause behind the breakdown of families in this country? It's money, of course!! Or, to be much fairer, it's the lack of it that sets the ball rolling. It doesn't matter whether you are living on one hundred thousand pounds a year, ten thousand or a damn sight less. All humans have to pay the same money for the essentials: Food, Energy, Clothing, Footwear, and so on. Now, with this in mind, who do you think would be the happiest of people in your society?

Now, as Bob said, it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep a young person in a local authority home, got it? Right, now how much do you suppose the government contributes towards these same parents each week, to help bring up these same children if they were living in their own homes? Two thousand pounds? One thousand pounds? Five hundred then? Okay, okay, fifty pounds a week? No! No! No! and No! again... It's a little over eight mean pounds a week. incredible, I say!! I don't know about you, but it seems to me that under these circumstances, a child is financially much better off living in one of your local authority homes, than with their natural parents who are, through no fault of their own, too poor to look after them themselves. It's bloody crazy! Croak!!

A change of subject now, before is does my poor head in. My friend Bob was telling me about Spam. He explained that I mustn't become confused between the tins of Spam, a delicious inexpensive meat (I hope that this has nothing to do with us frogs?), and unwanted and unwelcome emails. It is these emails we're concerned with. I understand that your great European government has banned the sending of unsolicited emails (Spam). Fair enough! The US of A has also banned the sending of Spam. Sounds pretty good to me! Ah ha! But there is the rub. The US of A is not banned from sending its Spam to people like you and Bob, which is why he receives tons of it, frequently advising him that he needs the mighty Viagra, which he says he doesn't, along with thousands of other crappy products that are of no use to man nor beast. I say, with friends like those in the US of A, who needs enemies? It's high time that they give us some respect...

Well, all of this has taken it out of me, so...

Stay safe and take care, do drop by again soon for more of Bob's amazing revelations...

Froggy