April One and Cooking

A blue ski and bright sunshine greet us on the first day of April, 'April Fools Day,' as some call it.  Few however, have bothered to play jokes this morning as it is difficult to tell such humour from the daily outpourings of Trump and Keir.  One did get me on Facebook however, UK Police Humour got me, a description of a scrote who burst a window on a police car was given, and when you clicked on the button it took you to your own page.  Very clever I thought.  One or two others have appeared claiming Farage wanted to buy Canvey Island and turn it into 'Nar-a-Fargo, and others claimed to have been recruited to work for Trump, in spite of what they have called him beforehand.  

Keir Starmer gave a good one, until I realised it was true, he spoke about 'illegal immigrants,' and hating how they took money from workers, and other blatant Reform UK type policy words.  Clearly he fears Reform UK will tale votes from him but instead of changing policy he merely copies Farage.  I doubt this will work.

So far, Trump has not appeared, maybe he will remain indoors today as few can believe anything he says anyway?  

I'm all at sea today.  Everything is failing badly.  I began this post yesterday and forgot all about it.  I sat here staring into space wondering what it was I was meant to be doing and here it was, not doing anything.  

Anyway, I did work yesterday, I finished ironing the summer shirts from last year, cooked and later dismembered a chicken, now made into some sort of soup today.  And spent time wondering how my idea of saving money was costing me money.    

You see, I buy a bag of mince, made something with this which leaves me 4 or 5 bowls of whatever it is in the freezer.  This meets with the previous curry that lies there awaiting me gathering the courage and yoghurt sufficient to try it again.  So now I have days of chicken before me, with some alternatives, and I think this good.

Then I consider the cost.  

Buying the stuff from one of the two greedy supermarkets is straight forward but expensive, then at home it has to be cooked, the chicken in the electric oven for 2 hours, the others in the big pot on the hob, which takes another couple of hours.  Saving money when shopping but increasing the use of the oven with greedy EON stealing my pension I reckon leaves me not any better off, as indeed I had hoped.  

EON have had a good week so far, the laptop, the hoover, the cooker, lights in the evening as the sun goes down, and then there is the water used via the gas boiler which has been used much, simply to clean the mess after cooking.     

Electric, gas and water costs always rising, and all offer help to cut costs you will notice, any help bar lowering the prices the greedy capitalists.  I think it is British Gas that made £65 billion profit, though it may be another greedy CEO and company.  One of my private pensions, the big one, has increased by £1:41 per year!  Hooray!  However, I am not one to complain, I can survive and I am a long way from visiting a food bank, there are many others who are really struggling and this Red Tory crowd are not going to aid them.  We live under the control of the greedy rich ensuring the peasants pay the taxes they do not wish to pay, and die to keep them of benefits or making use of the NHS.  YOU voted for this I tell people, but they do not wish to notice this, and many appear willing to vote for more of this once again.

April Fool

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I have scoured the morning papers online for 'April Fool' stories and cannot find any. Usually each paper has one story that dumb people like myself fall for unthinkingly, and while that may well be the case this morning I fear it is not. Instead I fear that the majority of the tales offered in the media today are so banal and obscure that I find it impossible to tell the difference between them and the 'April Fool' tale. I accept the world is a mixed up place. I concur that weird news happens daily. I realise that life throws up strange offerings. However I fear that the media these days is so desperate to shock that any old pap is printed just to draw our attention. This morning I failed to notice the difference between the daily offerings and any 'April Fool' story. Of course it may just be my boneheadedness revealing itself once again.

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It will cause some concern and distress to some of my readers when the news that Rangers Football Club, already officially £29 million in debt, may have to add to that debt after the tax man asks for a little bit more. Indeed there appears to be reasons for tears as the chairman, one Alastair Johnston, indicates that the club might even end up in administration. My twisted and perverse memory reminds me that Livingston Football Club suffered an immediate relegation to the third division for similar failings, I wonder if my memory is correct?  It would be, shall we say, 'unfortunate,' if a club such as Rangers Football Club, a club renown for the 'dignity' and propriety' that emanates from their marbled halls, were to end up playing third division football. Cynics might begin asking questions regarding the 'loyalty' of their fans. The players would certainly be offski!  Still other cynics would add that the 'Masonic' handshake would avoid all sorts of disagreeable outcomes in this instance. Still, it is something to warm the heart while dreaming about such good fortune, isn't it?  

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April Fool

First day of April. Several papers and no doubt, radio and TV stations will have played 'April Fool' jokes on their followers today. I sit here, cold, hungry, tired and wondering how I got into this mess, thinking there is only one 'April Fool' in this house.

And it's me.