Bluebells from several years ago, Blakes Wood, Essex. I have never found the equivalent down here in North Yorkshire, though like ghosts they appear along the verge sides and in the garden. The scent of bluebells in a dark wood, the iridescent blue lighting up the fresh green plants. a tad better than the clouds of wild garlic flowers pungent smell!
What so news? The 'rat' Cummings has surfaced. I just love the way those in power turn on each other, remember to delete your emails by the way. Stirring up trouble would of course be his main thrust, a game of politics. Cameron/Greensill will run for a few weeks, the morality of having 'the ear' of the incumbent prime minister discussed, debated and then sadly it will all go on as usual.
Funny thing I heard yesterday was a reference to Dyson as a 'moral vacuum'. I have always been warned not to buy one of his expensive vacuums as they give up the ghost fairly quickly.
Which reminds me of the 'Henry' vacuum I saw in an article the other day, Henry looking rather down and miserable sitting in a corner in the new American style media room that cost a fortune and now is not to be used. Could it be that Johnson is rather fed up of the job of Prime Minister and has decided that a presidential role is not for him... Wasn't it Cummings who initiated the media room?
Last night with tab in hand I listened to a Sounds Radio 4 programme of the 'History of Knitting', earliest evidence from Egypt. It is on record that weaving took place in the Bronze Age, but of knitting there is no evidence. Though given their wattle fencing and fishing nets there must have been some inkling of it. It can be traced through European medieval paintings though, and it was a sad fact that Queen Elizabeth 1st stopped the first knitting machine's registration because it did not produce the fine silk stockings of France. Must find an article on that...
There is a wealth to watch or listen to on all the media to hand. Greta Thunberg on Earth Day, rubbishing the leaders and their sanctimonious promises of what they are going to do. God that girl speaks direct to the camera, one cannot but admire her spirit.
I also watch the French 'Arte' programmes and caught a small series of philosophy gems. Well as the music on radio3 comes to a crashing halt (why do they play such terrible music?) I shall move on to household chores....
Everything seems to be falling to bits. The BBC and the Post Office are just two national institutions which are being systematically destroyed by people made in the Cummings mould. All done under cover of Covid.
ReplyDeleteThe scandal of prosecuting innocent post office people over a faulty computer programme is horrific. The fact that it went on so long and was chased till justice was eventually found just shows the cowardly actions of the Post Office, wretched business methods at their worst.
Delete'moral vacuum' - I like that. We once had one of his whirlygig vacuum things. It was so noisy youu felt las if you'd been standing in front of the speakers at a Black Sabbath concert.
ReplyDelete"Time flies like an arrow" - a sentence with 4 meanings I believe, but can only think of 3 at the moment.
Never been to a Black Sabbath concert but did actually own a Dyson that had been reconditioned did not last long though. There was great resentment in Wiltshire of Dyson moving his factory from Malmesbury to abroad, tax dodging and low wages comes easily to him.
DeleteI suppose that explains the Dyson cartoon of Peter Black's in today's Times.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could do cartoons, they say so much without words Pat.
DeleteGreta is a legend. As soon as our PM had decried “bunnyhuggers” ( ?? ) she changed her Twitter bio to - you’ve guessed it! Bunnyhugger.
ReplyDeleteShe likes to turn the table on World leaders, our PM's way with words are often unfortunate. Think we should all describe as ourselves as bunny huggers or tree huggers.
DeleteI have found plants in wooded places that appear to be some variety of bluebells, but they lack the scent that seems to characterize the English bluebell.
ReplyDeleteThey could well be the Spanish bluebell, comes in different colours and doesn't have the magic of the wild bluebell. Nature Trusts are scared that the varieties will mix and we will lose the wild bluebell.
DeleteWhen Cummings failed to apologise about his trip to County Durham I thought of him as a "rat". But now that he is exposing Johnson for the pompous, egotistical, brazen megalomaniac that he is, I think of him as a St Bernard's in the wintry Alps with a small barrel of brandy under his chin. Come on Dominic! There's a good boy!
ReplyDeleteNeither have the character of decent dogs ;) Dominic is also up for cross examination soon I believe, I just hope all the words both Johnson and Cummings have used comes back to bite their tails!
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