Oh yes, I have a few theories regarding that but right now I’m a tad ropeable and unusually for me I’ve got the bit between my teeth as I’m so damn tired of  the  knockers out there!! If you are a misery-guts then by all means be a misery-guts but please don’t make other folks lives miserable by knocking them down for whatever reason you see fit! I grew up surrounded by people who often repeated little gems of sayings and they have always stuck with me. My Mothers Father would often repeat to her that “if you marry for money then you earn it.” Mums little saying was “a fool and his money is soon parted.” Dad would often say to us kids that “the greatest gift you can give a child is an education” and one of my favorites that I gathered along the way is “don’t let the clouds of life block your view of the sun” but probably my all time favorite was from one of the people I loved and respected the most during my formative years– my Grandfather – and he was absolutely true to this saying – “if you have got nothing good to say then say nothing” and that’s my gripe, why oh why are there so many knockers out there? Does it really make them feel good? I doubt it very much! I find it jolly hard to fathom out. You hear people spouting “oh, you are so lucky” – bollocks to that too! What nonsense! We have more than likely been working our guts out for the last 30 years, raising decent kids,  knee-deep in mortgages,  going without most luxuries,  taking the odd risk and along the way dealing with some pretty severe knocks ourselves and we are lucky? Huh! I don’t think so! We just knuckled down and got on with it. So, you knockers out there, that’s precisely what I’m on about. We have got this far – probably bruised and battered but finally the kids have flown the coop and we can now start to indulge in a few of the nicer things in life. Maybe a car that actually gets a warrant first pop – a nice meal out with friends – a little travel – a toy or two – a few more holidays – maybe a beach house if you are so lucky – that’s really not too much to ask for is it?