How nice to be out and about in the sunshine. Most of last week I suffered a bug that took what little strength I have and remained hiding behind the laptop doing only those things that do not require thought. This is a position I am best at.
Yesterday I was forced out and spent the rest of the day asleep. Today I was also forced out and dragged myself all the way to St P's and back although the return was healthier that the going for some reason. Above the skies displayed clouds that appeared to have been squashed flat and spread across the skies, as I returned I noted these were being replaced by puffy 'cotton wool' ones and the hot sun giving the lie to the threat of heavy rain tomorrow. This ought to arrive late on once I am back home safe under a blanket.
As I have done nothing for over a week I have one of those long 'to do' lists which I shall glance at soon. The problem is so much may as well wait until next year as it has waited that long already. The 'Spring Clean' began well but has stuttered to a halt. Things already clean need another go already, dust appears from nowhere in this place, the fridge needs attention and I am positive I attended to it only last May, or was it the year before? Anyway all these things need doing and I am unable to until later this week. Hopefully a tragedy, good news, event appears to make me forget all about it until next year again.
Also the laptops have been playing up again and now I am in the middle of the muddle clearing this from that and replacing that with this and so on and on and on...
In between I have been ignoring the media as nothing important is happening, well except Theresa May keeping her job by giving the Northern Ireland DUP party one billion pounds to spend so they will keep her government in power. However this money may mean the Scots lose out and I wonder in the dozen Scots Tory MPs will stand up and be counted or will they vote against May unless they also get one billion pound for Scotland? I do hope so.
The fire last week has left many homeless and still struggling to cope, the media have however moved away...
A glance at the media shows how awful the world is. People say it is getting worse every day but I have began to search the Newspaper Library and a quick glance at the local rag for August and September 1914 revealed similar tales to today. There are mentions of the war and some of the effects breaking through, adverts aplenty offering things you really don't need, local news, important people crime, murder and assault. The layout may be unusual but the hack knows what sells his paper, he knows what he can get away with, he knows who to attack and who to support, he knows what the people wish to read!
It is however hard going online as the words are small, working the buttons not that easy and the thing takes forever to turn a page. However it is worth having even though it costs money I canny afford. I will get my moneys worth however...
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Where today is there the equal of the `Skibereen Eagle` which in 1898 was keeping ite eye on the Czar of Russia and his expanionsist schemes?
I love it when the skies are like that. I could watch them for ages, and the lazier I get the more I do just that. Now I'm missing the blue skies of the heatwave, blah, don't like rainy grey that starts just above the roof tiles.
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