Thursday lunchtime I took the airport bus, air stewardess included as always, to the good quality charity shops. There the rich dispose of their worthy items long before you and I would do so. I searched all four shops, although this was difficult in one as it was closed, but found nothing whatsoever worth looking for. How mean of them, don't they realise I need a new jacket?
I did however visit my favourite card shop, Oxfam!
There is no doubt the cards on offer here, often misusing old photographs, are very clever and full of wit, something missing in so many 'funny' cards today. I had to buy some as with all these wimmin having birthdays I found my collection of cards were all aimed at men. This was unfortunate. Now I am ready for the next woman as long as she does not want anything like money to go with it...
Lovely short bus journey passed green fields, Barley almost ripe, sun glinting on farm machinery and one single farm worker as he prepared his field. No EU workers on sight, I suspect Theresa has sent them all home so it will be big crops around here from now on.
The problem with birds is their great ability to see something they wish for and then go get it. The trouble they then fond is they cannot work out how they got in and therefore how to get back out again. The Robin has been in, a Blue Tit the other day, another one was found on the window today and yesterday this young Starling worked out how to get in and then screamed blue murder because he could not get out.
You will notice the mess on the window, this comes from the dust from the stuff they are feeding on these days. The shop cannot get the usual seed pellets, someone appears to be arguing over money, and what is on offer is not good enough for these brutes. It also has left a lot of dust down the wall and with no rain to speak off it is not getting washed a way. My neighbour might speak to me soon...
Today the plan was simple, eat a good breakfast and then eat little until evening, great idea.
I had a good breakfast and fell asleep.
After this I spent all morning on this laptop either reading the grubby papers and arguing with Brexiteers or listening to the 'iPlayer,' sorry 'BBC Sounds.' It was indeed better as the iplayer but there you go, someone has £10 million to spend and so it must be spent even if in a daft and needless manner.
The radio was good and it took me till after two to remember to get out and get milk, but I fell asleep instead. This has not been a great day...
I see that nice Mr Farage has been taken apart twice this week, once by Andrew Marr of Sunday and then by a Channel 4 newsman the other night. The vast wealth he has been given by Aaron Banks, who does not disclose where his cash comes from, is helping him with his Brexit Party as it did with his dying UKIP party. It is interesting to note he has arranged it so no 'member' of his new party can influence decisions, only he can, with two others, very democratic.
The sheep rose to the occasion claiming all this was a smear campaign against Farage by the 'establishment.' How he has them hoodwinked. There is a kind of blindness which hangs over Brexiteers, facts do not deter the need for Brexit, the emotion goes deep and no fact lies behind it so it cannot be opposed. The opposite is occurring and if a second referendum is given they will all vote 'Leave' with more belief and yet with few facts. I see Scunthorpe is losing 900 jobs because of Brexit from the plant that is the mainstay of the economy yet North Lincs voted strongly in favour of Brexit, what did they expect?
The more I hear of Farage the more I think of Alcibiades the chap Thucydides wrote about after the death of Pericles through the plague. His view was that Pericles spoke for the good of the nation, Alcibiades was in it for himself, and it appears so. It is also interesting that Boris Johnson is a great Thucydides fan, I wonder who he sees himself as?
I would explain this on the 'Daily Mail' forums but the sheep would not comprehend. Anyway they would see them all as foreigners!
We can always take our minds off Brexit by watching the US attempt another war this time against Iran. It is unknown if Trump realises what he is doing here or indeed if he knows what is going on but Spain, Germany and the Dutch among others have withdrawn their forces from the US alliance in the Gulf. The US will be on their own in Iran, bar the Conservative Party that is.
