I cannot tell you how disappointed I am currently with our American cousins!Its bad enough that they voted Trump to become President, a worse choice cannot have been conceived than this monstrosity of a man! and now after yet another school massacre by another crazed individual with an assault rifle, do we get universal horror and some traction to stop it ever happening again or at least the will to lesson the chances, no. the same rhetoric is wheeled out.
The NRA start once more with their ceaseless bollocks regarding the constitutional right to bear arms. which century are they living in? Do they need to defend their homesteads? Is the USA going to be invaded? How much hunting can you do? If they are so worried about defending themselves then perhaps they should have an army and perhaps armed law enforcement! It is simple give people guns and they will shoot each other

Sick

It appears that I have been absent from this medium since last year. Its not from a lack of things to comment on just not been able to motivate myself to do so. Even now with so much happening in the world I feel as though I am just repeating myself as the events themselves seem to do. I've written much about many of the current headlines because ....well they keep happening!
I have over the last two weeks be very ill with a particularly nasty chest infection which although I am improved, I know is going to hamper me for some time yet. Naturally like anyone I hate being sick. It is miserable and debilitating. No appetite, listless, depressing and physically tiring, just to mention some of the effects. I have lost weight perhaps a good thing if not the way one would wish to.
It has kept me in the house and I admit I have watched far to much television, an accompanying consequence of too much enforced inactivity. I have subscriptions to both Netflix and Amazon so I have not been entirely reliant on the normal mass boredom of channels that have proliferated over the last 20 years. 
I have discovered some gems that I might not have otherwise watched, chief among them is Jerry Seinfields Comedians in Cars getting Coffee. He drives a varied selection of cars, anything from an Aston Martin to a VW. He picks up another comedian and they drive to have coffee. Simple, each programme is only about 15 minutes in length and there is an intimacy to each, that you very rarely get from the more formal talk show. I now understand the phrase "binge watch" because I have watched almost four series! 
The second series which has fascinated me, SKY's Portrait Artist of the year. I like art am a bit of an amateur artist myself, though nowhere near these artists level, the process that these amateur and professional artists go through to produce their portraits is an education. There are as many different techniques as there are participants and the results vary accordingly, it is certainly true that art is very much in the eye of the beholder 
Rather not have been incapacitated but there is always a silver lining!