Comments on: Feet First 2011

By: McEff

McEff — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:36:00 +0000

Thanks for that, Greg. You’ve given me something to think about. Incidentally, I stopped getting Trail for the same reason. Too many smug young things.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:34:19 +0000

Forgive me if I’m telling my granny to suck eggs but why not try getting published in magazines. TGO at the moment definitely could do with an injection of talent . People like Andy Stothertt write regularly and I think he also does bits in caravan and motorhome mags. If you got in there you could do a monthly Because They are There article. I would look forwards to getting TGO again! There’s Lakes Walker, Country Walker, All those Dalesman type mags. Dont know about Trail mag as I stopped getting it a number of years back as it’s annoying. Would be worth submitting some of your past extremely well written blog posts.

By: McEff

McEff — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:09:13 +0000

Wow. I might just do that Ellen. You’re right about newspapers. They’re being killed from the top down right across the industry. It used to be great working at the Echo. Nowadays it’s horrendous. Thank god there are mountains out there.

By: Ellen Arnison

Ellen Arnison — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:58:10 +0000

Go. Run like the wind. Newspapers as we know them are dead.
I got ejected by the Mirror five years ago and since enjoyed an informative stint in PR and I’m now freelancing – people still need words to read and people to write them.
Dunno if that helps or not…

By: McEff

McEff — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:21:17 +0000

Ha ha . . .

By: Oldmortality

Oldmortality — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:05:48 +0000

I hear the News of The World are hiring journalists. Just call up the editor and leave a voicemail
No.
Wait……

By: McEff

McEff — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:40:21 +0000

Greg, you are a beacon of hope and light. It’s reasuring to know there are people out there who actually do give a damn about the way our society is going and how it is being run.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:17:35 +0000

I was a teacher for 20 yrs and was insulated from the real world. When I became an electrical contractor 3 years ago I realised how tenuous most peoples’ jobs were. The company would lose contracts or work would be slow so they layed people off. Often around christmas. Jobs were so tight that if things picked up they would come back, not getting jobs in the meantime. I was lucky as they sub contracted me to a big company and I have recently got a 3 year contract that should see me to 59.
I often think that in future something will have to be done or there will be civil unrest when millions of young people have nothing to do. A more social or benevolent system will have to be in place as market forces just treat people as expendable. For all its faults the EU seems to have tempered labour laws during the worst excesses of Conseravative and Labour governments. At least they have the human rights act and a minimum wage. It amuses me how the Daily M… and Ex….. slag off Europe to such an extent that all the guys in my bait cabin hate Europe despite the obvious better working conditions that they enjoy because of it.