27th September
I sometimes write up these pages a day or two after events.
It sometimes takes a day to mull over and understand exactly what’s in the news.
It was so much easier when you just had to focus on ‘the death’ and ‘the queue’, with no distractions such as Putin, Ukraine, nuclear war, rising prices, economic meltdown, misfits in government, environmental disaster and an earth being wiped out by a meteor.
NASA successfully launched a satellite ‘bomb’ against a passing meteor to nudge its flight path (so somewhere else in the galaxy, at some point in the future, we could be responsible for wiping out another civilization).
I could think of targets more closer to home that might have a more positive and imediate impact.
Kwarteng is superficially black, says a Labour MP who has been suspended for racism. Maybe she should have gone to Specsavers. Kami-Kwasi Kertang is definitely not white, even if I fiddle with the contrast on my tv remote. Outright racism from a leftie. Just shows the whack jobs are not all Tory. Should I take the knee for the KKK?
Took part in a workshop on unconscious bias. I get it, but personally I would consciously worry more about the conscious kind of bias. I’m sure that’s much more damaging than some poor soul of a certain age mistakenly using language and thinking in a way that would not have been frowned on even ten years ago.
But maybe I’m just a white-middle-class-middle-aged-manager who is part of the patriarchal system that has reduced Scotland/Britain to what it is.
Hold on though, isn’t there a woman in power in Edinburgh and in London, and are the nearly-dominant-parties in Northern Ireland not led by women?
I’m sure that’s how they identify.
Labour said it would nationalise power companies with a focus on going green. Sounds great, just don’t count on the Scottish Greens. I’d burn tyres in the back garden before voting for them. Patrick Harvey. What a political gnome.
And speaking of gnomes, when I was out walking the mutt, someone mentioned that there had been a spate of gnome thefts.
‘If you have a gnome in your garden make sure its locked away at night’.
If I had a gnome in my garden I should be locked away at night.
Although they must sell and sell well.
Just as you go into ASDA, on the right hand side next to the café entrance, there are rows and rows of gnomes that you need to navigate before you can order your breakfast.
And during Pride Week (or whatever Pride event it was) there was a gnome in rainbow colours next to the till.
Until someone (another shop worker) kidnapped and hid it, causing Lewis (who is on the till) a great deal of stress.
Gay pride, gnomes and breakfast.
Not a lot left to be said on that.
More Royal Mail strikes announced. Lots of them. One paper suggested we might want to get our Christmas post done early.
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