It was good to have a holiday. I really enjoyed our
time away, but you can’t beat your own bed and your own chodbin.
And somehow I’ve managed to knack my elbow…
I got up in the small hours. For all that you can’t
beat your own chodbin, mine is quite a hike from the bed. Whilst I was at it I
put a load into the washing machine.
I made toast and peered int Facebook. I was
immediately presented with the claim that “Ashford MP Sojan Joseph
& Labour tried to make KENT taxpayers pay for daily school transport from
Crawley, Sussex — for illegal asylum seekers”. The claim was from
some Reform UK councilor. Did Ashford MP Sojan Joseph &
Labour *really* try to make KENT taxpayers pay for daily school
transport from Crawley, Sussex — for illegal asylum seekers?
I really don’t know. They may well have done. Is there
any evidence for this? That’s what we need to see. I did a little research and
all I could find was name-calling on Facebook. Sadly however this is what I’m
seeing more and more from politicians of all shades. No one is saying what
they’ve actually done; they are just making claims about the failings of the
opposition whilst rarely providing any evidence to back up their claims. I’m
reminded of the bickering of children that I had to referee when I was a cub
scout leader.
There’s no denying that the people of Ashford have
made a mistake by voting for the current MP, but what is the alternative? Just
shouting “VOTE REFORM” doesn’t tell us precisely what we would be voting
for, and “vote for us because we aren’t as bad as the alternative” is
hardly a defensible political position.
Steve was on the radio doing the “Guess the Lyrics”
competition. “The reason for living the reason for leaving” was from
ABC, but it wasn’t “Poison Arrow”; it was “The Look of Love”.
Even with the initial mistake I still got it within a minute. I felt rather
smug about that. I Munzed. I Worded from “lyric” to “quell” in
five goes then we took the dogs to Dog Club.
There were quite a few new dogs along today, and
Morgan took a few minutes to settle, but in the end a great time was had by
everyone. I tried to count the dogs; we had somewhere in the high teens of dogs
along. It was difficult to be sure; they don’t sit still.
From Dog Club we drove to the petrol station while
Steve was doing the Mystery Year competition on the radio. “Stand By Your
Man” and the first appearance of Davros on Doctor Who? 1975.
We headed out to Staple. Being a few minutes early we
took the dogs for a little walk and as we walked we met a coupe of friends who
were also early for the geo-meet and thought that they too might have a little
walk. It was good to catch up.
And then it was on to the Black Pig for the annual Bat-And-Trap-othon.
Bearing in mind the rain of the last week we had a really good afternoon in the
sunshine drinking beer and playing Bat & Trap. I scored two, which was
something of a result. I do like the geo-meets, and today’s was so like how
they used to be.
As the afternoon wore on things became progressively
more vague. I counted five pints of ale, and I’ve a photo of gin & tonic. I
slept much of the way home.
“er indoors TM” went
off to the local Am-Dram’s production, and I settled in front of the telly and
watched three episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
I
took quite a few photos today. And I think I’ve caught the sun…. And my
elbow still hurts.
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