18 April 2017
I had a birthday recently. Nothing special, aside from to those colleagues who remembers my ‘special day’ and who didn’t receive the cakes and biscuits it’s customary to provide.
So, a few weeks on, and after occasional good-natured banter designed to motivate me, I finally left a few packs of cakes and a box of biscuits in the office kitchen. Well-received it all was too.
Speaking of late birthday surprises, Theresa May called a UK General Election for June 8th 2017.
Yeah, of course I fear the worst.
17 April 2017
I was wrong. The 139th White House Easter Egg Roll event went ahead with the Trumps in attendance. I guess I’m simply not in tune with a lifestyle which allows separate taxpayer-funded flights for the President and the First Lady, from Washington DC and New York City, to Florida for a couple of days. And then back again.
Some people will point at this one event, ignore the history and the numbers, and assume the world is returning to normal. Hey, the First Lady might have organised and supervised the planning of the Egg Roll.
Others will watch the following video and groan:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39622126
Or read this article and groan:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/17/trump-jokes-with-easter-egg-roll-attendees-throws-make-america-great-again-hat-back-into-crowd/
You know, I am enjoying reading stuff from The Washington Post. It makes a nice change from, er…
17 April 2017
The Easter Bunny visited, distributed cunningly-hidden chocolate eggs throughout the Turner residence and left, but not before disposing of the Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt pack cardboard in our card and paper recycling box.
How very responsible; how very practical given what I’d imagine would be the total worldwide visit packaging impact on the Easter Bunny’s home recycling regime and the local authority’s complaints on bin emptying day.
How very odd it felt explaining this to the nearly 10-year-old daughter who found the card despite someone’s* lackadaisical efforts to ‘bury’ it the night before.
*Nameless twerp.
17 April 2017
With 99% of the votes counted and the totals being 51.4% for, 48.6% against, the Turks elected to become a dictatorship.
Like other recent close tallies, I’ve the feeling this won’t end well for the average citizen’s belief of what democracy is.
16 April 2017
Drunk neat is best.
To be concluded…