At this time of year I envy those that live in flatter parts of the country. I bet they're already basking in the lukewarm glow of winter sun while we sit, encased in frost, waiting for it to rise over the mountain like a sulky teenager emerging bleary-eyed from their bedroom around midday. All this blue sky and nothing to put in it
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
At this time of year I envy those that live in flatter parts of the country. I bet they're already basking in the lukewarm glow of winter sun while we sit, encased in frost, waiting for it to rise over the mountain like a sulky teenager emerging bleary-eyed from their bedroom around midday. All this blue sky and nothing to put in it
Plus the sunset over Cambridge/Norfolk was glorious last night.... living on a flatter part of the earth does have many advantages All that glorious sunset and not being able to enjoy a glass of wine from the garden (it was too B cold).
That's what mulled wine (and long johns) were invented for A few years ago we had a lovely sunny day in January but there was a good foot of snow on the ground. We set up lunch outside without clearing the snow away and sat there in full thermals making some much needed vitamin D. With winters being so wet these days I miss those rare opportunities to get away from the mud for a while.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
But he didn't even apologise. It would be like a thief saying:
'Sorry that you thought I stole the item, but technically, it wasn't theft - it was a loan'.... then the police investigation finding out it was indeed a loan, where the return date wasn't specified, and the item hadn't been returned after 20 years. Technically a loan?
He turned the apology into telling everyone, who thought he was at a PARTY hosted in the gardens at No 10, that it was a work event. They were wrong, not him. How is that an apology? It worries me that the inquiry will actually find that it was technically a 'work event' and that No 10 had a record of holding work meetings in the open air to stop the spread of Covid.
If it was a work event, then the people attending, who (I assume) were civil servants and politicians whose work is running the country, then he's admitting to the country being run by people under the influence of alcohol. I think that's just as bad as breaking the COVID rules. What's wrong with tea/coffee/water like the rest of us lesser mortals have when we're working? Better still, they should have found a way to do it online like everyone else did during lockdown, and many of us are still doing.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
We don't have any pets ... not even a goldfish ... do you think the hedgehogs would be willing to give us a cuddle?
Dove you can have our cat, the bain of my life. Its hard enough taking care of the misses with all her health issues and being wheelchair bound without the blasted cat waking me four times a night (she's not allowed out at night) and refuses to do her business in the neighbouring gardens so I have to bury it. My neighbours deserve her attention after all and its the convention for cats to visit the neighbours gardens as all you cat lovers know.Â
What kind of cat is this no consideration I feed the damn thing after all.
She's (The cat) all yours Dove.
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'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
I thought that the use of alcohol at 'work meetings' at no 10 had already been established with the earlier (obviously misguided) claims of parties there. But this will all come out in the enquiry, presumably along with any reports made by the police about breaches (or not) of Covid law witnessed by the police at no 10. I don't know what it is about Boris, but he does have a knack of getting out of very awkward situations.
As a general comment, what do you all think about this current (IMO) Faustian situation? Should a political party, that has in my view and in my life, stood for law and order, sell its soul to the Devil and have a leader that then breaks/bends the law. if it means that the leaders charm and charisma (? presumably in some people's view) means winning votes/elections? Do you trade votes and staying in power with 'doing the right thing'?
I think this follows on from what I saw pre leadership race, when a bunch of Conservative party members were asked who they would vote for. The interviewer asked them specifically about Boris - along the lines of ...' would you trust him with your wife?'...'Would you trust him with your money?'..'would you trust him to drive you home from a party?'. Virtually to a man (Shaun) there was a resounding 'no' - but then when asked who they were going to vote for, again virtually to a man, they all said Boris.
Apologies for repeating that again (and again...and again....and...), but I thought at this juncture it gives some insight into the current apologists.
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Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
If it was a work event, then the people attending, who (I assume) were civil servants and politicians whose work is running the country, then he's admitting to the country being run by people under the influence of alcohol. I think that's just as bad as breaking the COVID rules. What's wrong with tea/coffee/water like the rest of us lesser mortals have when we're working? Better still, they should have found a way to do it online like everyone else did during lockdown, and many of us are still doing.
Dove you can have our cat, the bain of my life. Its hard enough taking care of the misses with all her health issues and being wheelchair bound without the blasted cat waking me four times a night (she's not allowed out at night) and refuses to do her business in the neighbouring gardens so I have to bury it. My neighbours deserve her attention after all and its the convention for cats to visit the neighbours gardens as all you cat lovers know.Â
What kind of cat is this no consideration I feed the damn thing after all.
She's (The cat) all yours Dove.
Sorry I'm whinging , but it is the whingers threadÂ
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'