Day 129

Well I have been reasonably good tempered this week and tried not to say anything about you know who but after his antics yesterday I just cannot help myself.

The orange ape wants to delay the election because he believes postal voting will be corrupt and fraudulent? A desperate man clutching to any excuse to give himself some faint chance of being re-elected. He knows it’s slipping away, even he is not that thick, he grasping at anything that will halt the slide or give him and excuse when he loses, as surely he will? He two predecessors both got two terms and he is desperate to emulate them and hang onto power. 

Let me remind you he is a misogynistic, racial, homophobic, xenophobic, idiot who somehow conned enough people to become President. He has mismanaged anything he has touched. He has presided over the worse death rate in America ever! He has insulted, criticised, lambasted anyone who has disagreed with him or he just does not like. His regime has had a revolving door or people who have been in his team and been dismissed at a whim. He cannot string a coherent sentence together. He has no knowledge of anything and whenever he speaks he says whatever he thinks he can get away with or make up! He is a rich man, not through his own efforts and he could care less about the office he holds or the people he swore to protect, he only cares about others that are as rich as him. His family are weird and dysfunctional. In short he is the biggest disaster to have happened to his country ever! If the public by post or any other means do not reject him at the election then there is no longer any hope for them and their country will slowly disappear into obscurity!

Okay?

For some unknown reason I have suddenly and without warning developed an aching lower back? Eased this morning a little but yesterday I struggled to walk.

How are you feeling about wearing a mask? I don’t think anyone relishes the idea. I went into the estate agent we are using to sell a property (which has finally almost come to a conclusion, sigh!) I had never met them and I still don't know what they really looked like or them me. It is a weird experience and not a comfortable one. For me the thought of going to any shop under these circumstances is not one I want to do unless absolutely  necessary. I would like to go out for a meal but I am wary of all the fuss associated at present.

Stay well

Day 128

Word of the day Hurkle-durkling lying in bed long after you should be up!

Today I hope you will be delighted by these lyrics to a one of the songs I know off by heart.

I’m late I’m late for a very important date

no time to say hello goodbye, I’m late I’m late I’m late

I’m late and when I wave I lose the time I save

My fuzzy ears and whiskers to to much time to shave

I run and then I hope hop hop, I wish that I could fly

There’s danger if I dare to stop and here’s the reason why

I’m overdue, I’m in a rabbit stew, can’t even say goodbye

Hello I’m late I’m late I’m late!

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Day 127

I have not ranted this week and I am not going to start now. I am trying to be upbeat and positive this week? 

I have looked for upbeat stories and articles but there are precious few at present. Maybe there just isn’t room to report them. We know that good things are happening and they don’t need to be reported in order to make us feel good. In my experience I have found most people are polite and if not kind then certainly not nasty. I have met very few people who are deliberately rude or insulting. I have met boring, stupid and ignorant people but they are not necessarily horrible just best avoided. 

When I used to manage stores and showrooms people who wanted to complain (not often) just wanted someone to listen to their problem. I would do so and I never interrupted or made a comment. Once that had finished I would ask what they would like me to do about it? 9 times out of 10 they had not thought that far ahead and actually did not know. I would give them options or if the complaint was not justified, say so clearly and firmly but politely. I worked with a manager who delighted in confrontation with complaining customers as though it was a personnel insult that they should have a problem! He nearly came a cropper one day when the woman he was arguing with quite nastily, called her son in. He was a large man and very quietly pointed out that he would not have his mother treated so poorly and if he did not apologise he would be delighted to “persuade” him. At this point two of us took him to one side and told him in no uncertain terms that he had better do so and he had been in the wrong from the start. He rapidly backtracked and did so.

There is an old well known saying “You can catch more flies with honey” and it is true. The key to any “confrontation” is to listen and actually hear what the other person is saying. It is a very difficult lesson to learn and it took me many years to learn it.

Treat others how you would want to be treated, another saying that has merit. I could go on but my point is be nice, it costs nothing and is easy. I have often got myself in trouble because of impatience and have usually made a fool of myself. There have been times when a more aggressive stance is justified and it needs to be handled that way. Smile and be nice!

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Day 126

I read and hear a lot about obesity. It’s nothing new we have been getting bigger for many years. By now I think we all know the reasons. It’s not a mystery. For just as many years there have been a plethora of diets and methods to lose weight. Wendy is an expert in weight loss and I have a friend Tasha who is an advocate of low carb and healthy eating. Many fortunes have been made in the diet industry. 

I have definitely been obese a number of times in my life and whilst I have never followed a strict diet I have certainly taken action at times to reduce my weight. This year after a slightly indulgent winter i have lost almost 8 kilos. I watch what I eat (mostly) exercise and rarely drink alcohol. Alcohol for me personally is a big cause of a fat belly!

For me the biggest gun I have in my arsenal is good old fashioned will power. I may be fortunate but when I decide to there is something I need to do to improve my health and lose weight, I have the mindset to carry it out and generally stick to it. I have said before I want to go into my seventies as fit as possible.

Well meaning intentions to achieve your goals are fine on paper, help form others to encourage you maybe essential but I am sure that the only real mindset you must develop is will power, determination to police your own actions for the better. We know that it is all in the mind? A strong mind is the key to any weight loss. So my advice is to train your mind to be resolute in your endeavours. Yes we will slip and occasionally over indulge (I loosen up on hols although not as much as maybe I used to) but as long as you stay steady you can achieve more than you might imagine. When you do, think of the smile on your face from the satisfaction of what you have done!

So develop will power.

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Day 125

As I sit at my dinning table drinking my second cup of tea, I look back at the last 125 days since the lockdown was announced. Things have changed and we wonder if it will ever be the same again. It’s been a difficult and interesting time. It’s not been comfortable. Most of us have survived (so far) without harm. Have our lives changed, yes, some for the better some for the worse. Many have not survived and we must spare a thought for those families who have lost loved ones. Business has suffered, jobs have been lost, plans have been disrupted or cancelled for good. 

I have written many times about my love of change and how I enjoy the unpredictability of it. One can only look forward, looking back will do you no favours you can’t change it, only learn whether good or bad! The world constantly throws up road blocks, it’s how you handle them that make you who you are. It is easy to loose your smile and fall into melancholy. I know what that is like and how difficult it is to regain some form of equilibrium, not I pleased to say through personal experience but having lived with others who suffered. It takes strength and determination to shake off the blues. I know for sure that only the individual can really help themselves, we can only support. 

There is plenty to look forward too, improvement will come, it always does. Our society is used to a fast pace and getting what we want when we want it. Slow down, don’t rush, be patient, things will get better, maybe our need for our expected normality blinds us to the possibilities of the future opportunities. Philosophical bullshit, maybe but it is no less true! Maybe just maybe, it will allow us to focus on what is really important and you don’t need me to tell you what that is?

I had a schoolteacher who used to say “Take every opportunity the worse that can happen is you’ll learn”, it was he that gave me my love of language and English. I disliked school but in his English class the subject lived and I was engaged. 

I understand it is easy for me to sit here and pontificate, you may have pressures and problems that are overwhelming and possibly insurmountable, maybe just putting food on the table is a major issue. Whatever your circumstances, I hope you are able to find some peace and happiness, if only briefly!

Stay well

 

Day 125

Johnson says that the people are their bosses and they should listen. Yet every time we shout he turns a deaf ear, as with Dominic Cummings. Millions told him he should go and what did he do, he ignored us! I know I keep going on about the ineptitude of Johnson (and Trump) but it is no wonder when he is so inept. He is a proven liar, a film flam man, a truth bender. Remember he only got elected last Xmas, we have him for a further four and a half years, unless he calls an early election. He and the Tories have an 80 seat majority, so that is unlikely. 

I have waged my own personnel one man campaign against Trump and thankfully (though nothing to do with me) it looks as though there is a chance his days are numbered? I shall continue to wage my own one man protest against Johnson and his cabinet and his party, they are not what this country need and at the end of their 5 years, we will be worse off and completely buggered (not that we aren’t already). I’d like to say that this man manipulated his way into the Tory leadership but I just don’t think he is bright enough to have done it. He is just a figurehead and the strings are being pulled from elsewhere. 

As always with the Tories it will be their cronies and backers who will profit from their tenure. the rich will prosper and the poor will get poorer. All the promises they shouted about never selling off the NHS have already been jettisoned with the new Trade Agreement that went through almost unnoticed and unreported.

Today we have a complicit and muzzled media that no longer hold those in power to proper account and afraid or not allowed to ask the tough questions. The 

BBC, once a bastion of unbiased and tough reporting are now a bland, frightened bunch of pathetic wimps who no longer are able or have the balls to really rip into these politicians. Even our so called “gutter” press and the “broadsheets” are frightened of their own shadow. We have the worse insipid Parliament and politicians and the most pathetic reports on their actions. The amount of space needed to be filled and 24 hour news seems to have diluted any kind of real criticism or accountability. Yet with all that media to fill, important stories are not given the prominence they need or are ignored all together. What a terrible parlous  state we are in!

Most of the intelligent people I know share this view to one level or another. I will concede that most of the people I know are like minded but we can’t all be wrong. 

I wonder if there are people writing everyday on how good a job these politicians are doing and how well the news cycle reports their actions? If they are I have not seen them?

So there you have it another Guestling rant. I will not apologise and will keep shouting even knowing nobody is listening.

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Day 124

Which one is reversing quicker Boris or Donald? Shit we are in trouble better appear to act in a more humble manner. It won’t last they will both revert to type. You couldn’t trust them, you can’t trust them, and can never trust them!

Watched the BBC documentary on Richard Murdoch last evening. Frightening how much power and influence that man wields. His agenda is him. If you watch the programme you’d think he was running Blair’s government. To have that much influence is just symptomatic of what is wrong with the world we live in!

I love watching TV and movies but during this period of lockdown Wendy and I have gradually found ourselves getting slightly bored. Our concentration levels have diminished and we have started a number of movies only to give up and never go back to finish them. Having said that we have watched some fantastic movies and documentaries among other interesting programmes. We started one on Netflix last night, a reality show about matchmaking for Indian women and men. I opined that it is something so ingrained in their culture that many just accept that is they way to find a wife or husband. One of the women looking was so high maintenance and unrealistic in her choices I feel sorry for any bloke who might meet even some of her expectations!

Off on a longer bike ride today. I have not ridden longer rides as I find it tiring and get neck ache. So it will be interesting to see how I get on. When I say a longer ride for many it is a normal shortish ride. 

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Day 123

It is surely no coincidence that we are experiencing one of the worst periods in our current history while we have the two thickest and incompetent leaders of the UK and USA. Given a choice of who to put in charge when a crisis is happening would you put either of these knob heads in place? It’s odd that they are both misogynistic, prejudicial, liars who will do anything to grasp power. It’s odd that neither one really has the support of their own party but almost no one within in them is prepared to stand up and say so. It’s odd that they have both managed to dupe enough of the voting public in order to be elected. It’s odd that the they both seem to be teflon coated and when cornered either ignore or backtrack at a rapid rate. It’s odd that neither of them can string a coherent sentence together and apparently without prompting cannot remember a thing or what they were suppose to be doing. It’s odd that they are both equally thought of as a joke and yet it is quite likely that either one could be re-elected! 

I am at a loss as to the ineptitude of both men and those who support them, it is beyond my understanding. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent man with a fairly reasonable attitude towards my fellow humans and a reasonable grasp of what is going on (not always) but the rise of these two men into power baffles me!

So I have invented a word to describe MEN who have been voted in to power when they should never have been allowed to stand in the first place: Fuckingstupidchoiceofknobheadfuckwitidiot Granted it is not elegant but I think it has a certain truth and sums things up!

We are being threatened with lockdown in Northampton, to say i find this depressing is an understatement. Please I urge you all to take care and follow guidelines. If we do not comply this will drag on far longer than necessary and affect us all!

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Day 122

I have nothing much to say today that I and many others have not said before. so here is a poem I found from Giles Brandreth’s Twitter feed this morning which i like.

When people talk of Cheetahs

They usually mention speed

As clocking fifty mile an hour

Is fast you must concede

But they’re singled out by something else

A feature of their paws

Their the only cats to roam the Earth

With non-retracting claws!

Written by Mark Graham

Todays word from Susie

EMPLEOMANIA

The manic desire to hold public office at whatever cost!

Know anyone to whom that would apply?

Stay well

The new version of Blogger has some kinks and wont let me publish the photo I wanted 

Day 121

I have tried this week to be upbeat and optimistic. Unfortunately today I turn my attention back to my two least favourite men in the world Boris and Donald.

Donald first. Somehow his advisors have actually got him to listen and now he is promoting masks and saying the pandemic will get worse before it gets better

I doubt whether he actually realises he has presided over the highest death toll in American history or even cares. His corruption and self centred narcissistic nature only allows for him to think about himself and anyone who will tell him he is great while he does everything he can to line the pockets of his cronies.

Boris. He or more likely Cummings decided not to publish the report on Russian interference until well after the General Election for fear it would damage his prospects. The West is naive if for one moment they think that Putin had not ordered his people to do whatever they could to derail the UK (and America)!  I suppose better late than never?

I have written many times about what the Tories will be doing under cover of the pandemic and sure enough they have.See below.

I have being saying you cannot trust them for a long long time and this is proof positive that you cannot. 

I sometimes get the distinct impression that no matter what we say or do we have little or no control over events? I know we probably never have. There is so much wrong with the world that perhaps we just don’t know where to start? Everything is a priority but none of these actually get addressed. I wonder why we don’t solve or at least do our best to address one do it and move on to the next instead of this scattergun approach. I understand that the pressures on governments are enormous and I have no understanding of inner workings. As an observer one would have to say that there is a lot of talk and announcements but precious little action!

Well I tried to avoid a rant this week but it proved impossible.

It seems this new version of the Blogger will not publish the photo i pasted even though it appears on my draft so here is the link

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Day 120

A quick one today on my way out the door.

They are all mad and completely deluded.

Thank you

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Day 119

Good morning or as they say in Crete Kala Meara.

It is the start of another week , you see nothing gets past me! What joys have you planned for this next few days? I hope your week will be pleasant and full of good things. The sun shines as I write this, let us hope that it continues to do so?
How are you enjoying your life at the moment? Are you able to rise above the general malaise? Is there a smile on your face?
I used to say that it is easy to be happy just wake up in the morning and tell yourself to be happy! It is not that simple but you’d be surprised how effective simply telling yourself to be happy can be. Try smiling even if the first one or two are forced, you’d be surprised how soon you will do it naturally. If all this sounds like “new age” mumbo jumbo or psychological bullshit does it really matter as long as it works? We humans have a tendency to over complicate things and with the advance of technology we seem to have got worse. So this morning I am advocating simplifying your life and shrugging of all those mental gymnastics that twist your mind one way and then the other. It takes practice but I am a great believer that if you decide to behave that way you will. Strive to be happy. You won’t succeed all the time but just think how much better you could be if you are happier more often than right now! If you are already generally a happy person fantastic. If we could convince more people in the world to think happy it could be a better place. Happy clappy nonsense, wishful thinking, silly dreams, all of the above, well yes maybe it is but then why not. The world could do with a little more silliness and I don’t mean the millions of video’s posted online that show people behaving in a stupid way. Real human silliness that make us feel better about others and ourselves, it’s got to be worth a try?

There not a single moan, no politics, no rant about the two “you know who’s” just be happy. Have a nice week!

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Day 118

This has not been a happy year, understatement. There have been precious few of those in recent times. Since the turn of the 2000 there has been little improvement in the world. We may have less wars and our standard of living improved, perhaps we are paying more attention to the environment, maybe more people are better off? It sure don’t seem like it! I feel the world has became a sadder place and that the general mood throughout the world if one of pessimism. At present it is easy to be swayed that way, as the world goes through this collective pain! Nevertheless looking back I have written far far more often about the things that are wring than right. One might argue that moaning, complaining and criticism is easier than praise and optimism. Believe me I do look for the good things to write about but there are precious few things to be optimistic about? Oddly as I write this I am listening to William Shatner's (Yes Captain Kirk) Version of Let’s Work Together originally done by Canned Heat, for those of you whose memory goes back that far! And there in a nutshell is the nub of the worlds problems, we seem less likely to want to work together. The UK voted narrowly to leave the EU. Trump has taken the US our of all sort of agreements and treaties. Russia wants to interfere in the West to de-stabilise us. China imposes new laws on Hong Kong when they had signed a long term agreement to leave the colony to it’s own laws. India and China are clashing. Indian and Pakistan still clash. South America has leaders who are eroding hard fought freedoms. East European countries have a surge of far right politics. Rights are being eroding all over the world. Hard won equality such as LBGT are being rolled back in many countries. There are still many places in the world where both they and women still have no real rights and are positively persecuted.
You cannot escape equality for all it will come, when who knows, it is only fear and the lust for power that prevents it’s progress. there are to many millions of people who views are polarised and they have too much space to air their views and corrupt others!
There thats off my chest!!!!!

My writers club subject for the next meeting is The Long Wait/Weight

This is my short piece on The Long Wait

At last the long wait for Love was over.

“Mr Love where have you been we’ve waited for ages”

“Sorry train delayed at Chipping Norton”

thank you

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Day 117

I want to know why. I always have. It’s a simple question. Johnson says we may return to “normal” by December? That’s going to be one hell of an achievement I have not been “normal” for 67 years. He is good at pronouncements lousy at content. His mouth opens and you wish it was covered by a mask all the time with a time lock on it so as he can only say a few words at a time, giving his brain the pause to catch up! Governments seem to on the surface to be intelligent only to dissuade you from believing it every time they speak! Wouldn’t it be good if for once a government spokesperson actually made a definitive statement which did not conflict with or contradict previous edicts or even sentences in the same pronouncement? Politicians are not known for their straight talk but this lot have made it into an art form. I sometimes wonder if they sit round talking about it and then deliberately decide to confuse us just for laughs? If that is the case they are succeeding beyond their wildest dreams!
To be fair if you go on the Government website and read the guidelines/rules, they are reasonably well laid out and clear. However the caveats and logic of what and who can do what and when have no logic or practicality.
I asked at he start “why” and I know the answer is as always because! I know all the info is being collated, sorted and sifted, stats are being analysed and medical results qualified but it would be helpful to have a real definitive understanding of what their Covid-19 is? Do I ask too much am I being unreasonable? I don’t mind being confused but I do object to standing in a round container and being tole to piss in the corner!!!!

I attended my first “Writers Club” gathering since lockdown began and it was interesting to hear the different experiences of the others. They struggled to write while it was at it’s height, whereas I found it a rich vein of comment and interest. The subject for the next meeting is “The Long Weight/Wait”

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Day 116

I am not sure what to write today. I’ve read the news (some of it) not very interesting.

Do you ever find yourself  so annoyed with your own ineptitude that you cannot control your anger. I sometimes get like this and find I am unable to regain my equilibrium for quite some time and certainly not during the actual activity. I have tried over the years to control this part of my nature with varying degrees of success. It is my own inability to do something as well as I had no more than two days previously. I cannot understand how I fluctuate so wildly from only a couple of days to the next and it makes me mad! The worse thing is when I get it right I am pretty good at the standard I am at but when it goes wrong it’s like I’ve never done it before! It is baffling? Perhaps it is a mental failure and fighting with my mind is a thankless task!

Another weekend approaching and halfway through July. I know these have been unprecedented times when we have all been restricted but time as always has flown on as it does and if anything seems to have passed even faster?
Time does not exist. It is a man made measure to govern the passing of each day and night.
On that note I wonder what odd things have changed in your life as you have got older? Habits you had that you no longer have? Things you always did but now don’t? A small example to do with time.
I have always loved wrist watches. Over the years I have owned many some quite expensive (Not Rolex or Breitling expensive but not cheap) I have a collection and all the tools to take them apart to replace batteries. I have a very nice presentation case to keep them in. Here is the thing since I have retired I never wear one!


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Day 115

To mask or not to mask that is the question, whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Covid and by doing so overcome it! I para phrase but the current rules on where you where a mask or don’t are an absolute load of bollocks. In a shop yes, in the pub no, in a school no,  public transport yes, etc Would somebody please explain to me what the difference is. Surely wherever there is a risk of airborne infection a mask should be worn if that is the current advice.
Not only are this government unable or incapable of offering consistent advice they are slowly undoing all sorts of laws and protections behind the scene, that we know nothing about and aren’t being reported while we are distracted by Covid-19.
Beware of what you vote for Britain, you wanted Johnson and now watch as he dismantles protections that will always affect those who have the least or are the least able to fight it.
We stumble towards Brexit and the delusion that Boris is going to invest and provide al sorts of projects to get us moving. Mark my words when things do eventually calm down less than half of what he promised now will ever be talked of again. I hope there is a record of all these false promises so as when the dust settles (if it ever does) we will know how he and his cohorts conned us!
Do not be fooled by the huge sums of money his Chancellor is proposing like smoke it will disappear and all we will be left with is the faint memory of some project or investment the government once proposed. You can absolutely guarantee they won’t look after all of those health workers the damned with faint praise and clapped for. They will squirm and backtrack as they always do and find some seemingly plausible excuse for not spending!

That’s it for today rant over. I hope I never have to write the words “I told you so!”


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Day 114

Todays word which is very apt. SNOLLYGOSTER an unprincipled individual who is driven only by political gain
Mmmmmm anyone come to mind?

Wore mask in a farm shop yesterday. It’s was fine. Did not take long and was not uncomfortable, can’t understand why some are making such a fuss.
Did you hear and see the knobhead Conservative Sir Desmond Swayne who stood and said it was a “monstrous imposition”  “nothing would make me less likely to go shopping than wearing a mask”
When does this privileged twat go shopping a couple of time a year to his tailor?
The Tory party are full of useless uncaring pretentious rich idiots such as this man and when they stand to speak they show the true colours of an organisation who have no idea how to relate to the population they supposedly govern!

And breath! What happy news can one impart today? Well if your reading this your alive!
I must be because I have written it? Things could be different by the time you read it but I’m not planning on dying for a while yet!

Do you find it hard to keep occupied? Do you struggle to motivate yourself to do stuff? Here is a tip that has always worked for me. Don’t try. Yes it sounds negative but you’ll be amazed that if you just go with the flow how your day can become interesting and unexpected. There are regular everyday tasks we have to do or need to do but otherwise just busk it.

While I was typing our cat Lucifer Pudding jumped on the table, Wendy looked at him(he is a big cat) and said “You be a right beast if you had your balls” Now that’s not a comment your hear everyday!


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Day 113

Masks now we have to wear them in shops. Okay fair enough but do you not feel that the horse has already bolted? If a mask will protect others from anyone who could be a carrier, why have we has it not been compulsory up to now?
Having said that if it is necessary then let’s do what we have been advised and wear them. This is an unprecedented situation but this far down the line the advice does seem to be conflicted and confused.  I do not claim to be any judge of what is best, I have no scientific or medical training but there are enough people out here who have and perhaps I am being naive but I would have thought the evidence and expertise would have come to a definitive conclusion by now as to how to proceed. 
It is remarkable how with all out advancement, with the powerful technology and huge medical resource we have at our disposal how one virus has sown confusion and doubt. Granted the public must follow the advice (and we know how that can turn out) but you would have to say it has been weird!

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Day 112

All things considered this decade has not got off to a good start! (I nicked that sentence)
Whilst we have been consumed by the COVID-19 pandemic, I worry about all the things that have slipped through or not had the prominence they deserve? All the issues that were besetting the world before the viral outbreak have not gone. Who really knows what governments have pushed through while the headlines have  filled with Covid? As I have continually written Brexit has not been negotiated and time is now shorter.
I read today that there have been double the number of children in the UK suffering from malnutrition than at the same time last year. The fact that there are any children facing malnutrition is disgusting. I was born in the 50’s and as a baby we were still under rationing from the Second World War. I’m sure there was poverty and kids who did not have sufficient to eat but even then it was not  as bad. Malnutrition is not necessarily not having enough to eat, it is not having the right foods to eat, getting the right nutrients and vitamins. It is not even necessarily about poverty, although that is much more likely.  In a country as rich and supposedly civilised as the UK the amount of deprivation and poverty is unacceptable and with all the money being thrown about surely it can be helped.
Easy for me to say as I sit in my comfortable home typing on one of my devices. I’ve never experienced poverty or lack of food. I’ve been poor once or twice but always had help.
It is not a simple one size fits all solution and there are many reasons why people struggle. Our social system needs serious restructuring and major investment. Education must play it’s part. Looking at the state of things at present (and for a long long time) I have to say I am not hopeful.

Well that’s cheered you up? Always pleased to make your Monday morning one of sparkling pleasure!

I’ve made up my own word SPELLWANK  when spellcheck has changed a word without you noticing and you’ve sent the message already!


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Day 111

So Trump wears a mask? He has been wearing the mask of the President for nearly four years! He has to go.

Sad to hear that Jackie Charlton has died. Only three left of the ‘66 winning team left I believe Sir Geoff Hurst, Sir Bobby Charlton and Roger Hunt. Inevitably they would age and die, it was 54 years ago. I remember it well.

Do you trust any politician? Can you believe any word they spout? The credibility, about turns, twisting of facts and statistics has become a habit they cannot break. Perhaps they are a product of the insatiable need for the media to interview and scrutinise every move, every utterance. I suspect they are mutually inclusive. One cannot thrive without the other! We have poor representatives and the reporting is a reflection of them!

If you have Netflix may I humbly recommend two films we have watched 
Ali’s Wedding an Australian production about immigrant and native born Muslims. Funny, poignant, heartwarming and a true story!
Badla a Indian production, subtitled. A twisting convoluted, murder tale, with a final twist at the end. Gripping and intriguing!

Today’s word from Susie Dent.    Flarnecking the vulgar flaunting of success

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