Day 23

28th September

‘The Home Secretary raps police for pronoun policing’. Well that’s one news report I will not be reading. Has she not got better things to do?

William and Kate are on a charm offensive in Wales, their first visit as Prince and Princess of Wales. They can work the crowds wonderfully and do come across as genuine.

I wonder if I could simply make up a title for myself or add a few initials after my name just to impress. Would anyone actually check if you had that MBE? Or is that called fraud, and would it get you locked away?

News is full of economic gloom and doom.

BBC interviewing mortgage payers and first time buyers who were crying.

A government minister (Andrew Griffith, name and shame) was on all day saying that the current crisis was being suffered by other countries and was down to events such as war in Ukraine.

Eh, no.

The current economic crisis for this country is down to the budget-not-called-a-budget from last Friday. Is it any wonder there’s a loss of respect for politicians when you hear such shits spouting such obvious lies (I wonder what group of communications advisers he sat with before hand and who suggested that this was the line that should be taken).

Out for a cycle ride with the dog (it’s no use sitting down and looking up at me with those big brown eyes, you’re the one that wanted to go out for a run).

Saw a garden gnome floating down the river. Now wouldn’t that be fun if it were actually a bunch of gnome stealing senior citizens doing gnome races down river (whoever loses pays for the drinks at the café in the village).

Why do some dog owners bag their dog shit and then leave it, neatly tied up at the side of the footpath, or in the middle of the footpath, or worse, hanging from the branches (I know, I have ranted about this before).

Or at least I hope it’s dog owners.

I could never have a big dog. Too much shit – and too big as well – to clear up.

There’s also lots of horse shit on the path today as well.

Either that or someone has an amazingly huge dog.

Russia has blown up a gas pipe line. Or at least we think it has blown it up, or sabotaged it. But then again maybe not. But then again. They probably used underwater drones dropped from an innocent looking fishing boat. Or used an unmanned submarine. America is not too sure. Some European countries are. Some newspapers have obviously made their minds up and know what they want us to believe.

There really are some news stories that either sound like a script for a James Bond film or an episode of Thunderbirds are go. If ever there was a need for International Rescue it surely is now.

Why are some politicians so wooden (she who I will not name) you wonder if they are human?

Please, no more news images of bubbles rising from the North Sea.

There’s been too many references to shit on this page.