Last night I
discovered “Santa Clarita Diet” on Netflix. I’d heard good reports of
the show. Over brekkie I watched the third episode. It is “not too shabby”,
as the first fruit of my loin might say.
Once telly
was done I had a little look at the Internet. Several friends were off for a
little break over the long weekend. I had a pang of jealousy. I wish I knew why
– I’ve got stuff to do over the Bank Holiday weekend. But I’m still jealous of
what everyone else is up to.
With no
emails at all I got myself ready for work.
As I drove to
work the pundits on the radio were talking about yesterday's local elections.
It had been a terrible result for the Labour and Conservative councillors
across the country. Hundreds have lost their seats on local council as the
electorate turned to the smaller parties in protest about how the government
has handled the Brexit debacle.
Which totally
proves my contention that democracy is a stupid idea.
Local
government has never had anything to do with Brexit. No local councillor has
ever had any bearing on the Brexit process at all. Basing any kind of voting decision for local
government on Brexit (be it leave or remain) shows an utter ignorance of
the entire political process. Blaming hard-working local councillors for the
Brexit shambles is like blaming me for the pot holes in your local street. (i.e.
absolutely no connection whatsoever)
There was
also talk of the government's promise to retain the penny and two pence pieces
even though (apparently) six out of ten coppers are used once then end
up in a jam-jar somewhere.
I got to work
and had a rather busy day. As I walked out of work I looked up the results of
my local election. With a turn-out of less than thirty per cent I think it
fair to say that the winner was apathy.
Driving home
from Pembury took a while, but it was a pretty drive. I came home to find "Stormageddon -
Bringer of Destruction TM" was already in residence. We
played a little “Plunk” (until Treacle ate most of the marbles), he
then wreaked havoc underneath the table, and he is currently feeding pretty
much everything he can find to the dogs.
He seems
happy enough. As do the dogs…
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