Ugh. Back to foxes I'm afraid. Today: a decomposing rat on my rhubarb. It wasn't there yesterday so I assume they brought to this location in its current state. Bracing myself before going to remove it.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Yes. He's cunning and informed and thinks long term and has a strategy to weaken the EU, NATO, the USA and anything else that may stand in the way of his ambitions.
LG - lots of interviews on assorted forms of BBC news with Americans in Britain who were moved by the protests against Trump who is the intellectual antithesis of Putin - brash, reactive, combative and so very unsubtle and blatantly dishonest too. I knew one diplomat in Brussels who resigned his hitherto successful career because he found Bush too embarrassing. Went to teach politics at university in his native Oregon. Can't imagine what he thinks now.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Yes indeed - I used to think Dubya was the worst... he seems quite statesmanlike in comparison now.
I suppose I was less surprised by the Americans here being in favour of the marches than those in the US. Most of those here are bound to have a broader view. But people I know in the States seemed most moved, because it proved to them that they are not alone. Several of them, including people who I would say are upfront and robust in their politics, feel cowed by the situation there. Trump's base is holding and they have to be very careful in their everyday lives if they don't want to get abuse - or worse. The unequivocal, upfront 'No' to Trump and everything he stands for that the marches represented seems to have felt like a life raft to them.
Yes, Putin is terrifying. Trump's power combined with his worship of dictators is terrifying too.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I enjoy a debate, especially if I disagree.
@LG_ Lovely (not). Maybe he was considering a new idea for a fruity rat sauce [green emoji]
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
LG - lots of interviews on assorted forms of BBC news with Americans in Britain who were moved by the protests against Trump who is the intellectual antithesis of Putin - brash, reactive, combative and so very unsubtle and blatantly dishonest too. I knew one diplomat in Brussels who resigned his hitherto successful career because he found Bush too embarrassing. Went to teach politics at university in his native Oregon. Can't imagine what he thinks now.
I suppose I was less surprised by the Americans here being in favour of the marches than those in the US. Most of those here are bound to have a broader view. But people I know in the States seemed most moved, because it proved to them that they are not alone. Several of them, including people who I would say are upfront and robust in their politics, feel cowed by the situation there. Trump's base is holding and they have to be very careful in their everyday lives if they don't want to get abuse - or worse. The unequivocal, upfront 'No' to Trump and everything he stands for that the marches represented seems to have felt like a life raft to them.
Yes, Putin is terrifying. Trump's power combined with his worship of dictators is terrifying too.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border