Basket Case
Jun. 14th, 2026 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootThe UK is not on fire. It's not warm enough for that. But it's close.
This is a dismal June! We actually had the heating on. Of the many wonderful foxglove seeds given to me by November_Girl, one, count it, just the one, actually germinated. If it makes it to maturity I'll put up a celebratory photo. Beyond this, a very good thing has happened, but it is one of those situations best kept quiet. I have two lovely events ahead, and to my astonishment, I am dreading them from the principle of sheer fatigue. I know they'll be great, but one needs me to sparkle a bit, and I'm not feeling sparkly. Work is going well, so that's where I want to put my energy. It runs out fast, but not as fast as it did.
Politics here does not have the razzmatazz of states politics, but it's certainly got its own b*tshittery on display right now. Currently, were a GE to be called, the honourable recourse would be to spoil my ballot paper, or to vote for the candidate most likely to stop the ultimate bad guy getting in. But the UK has a few ultimate bad guys hanging around, just different flavours of ick, so I would have to choose very carefully. I'd say 'a plague on both your houses' but that implies that there are only two terrible options, and frankly, we'd be fortunate if that was the case.
Even thinking about it makes me weary. So I stop.
This is a dismal June! We actually had the heating on. Of the many wonderful foxglove seeds given to me by November_Girl, one, count it, just the one, actually germinated. If it makes it to maturity I'll put up a celebratory photo. Beyond this, a very good thing has happened, but it is one of those situations best kept quiet. I have two lovely events ahead, and to my astonishment, I am dreading them from the principle of sheer fatigue. I know they'll be great, but one needs me to sparkle a bit, and I'm not feeling sparkly. Work is going well, so that's where I want to put my energy. It runs out fast, but not as fast as it did.
Politics here does not have the razzmatazz of states politics, but it's certainly got its own b*tshittery on display right now. Currently, were a GE to be called, the honourable recourse would be to spoil my ballot paper, or to vote for the candidate most likely to stop the ultimate bad guy getting in. But the UK has a few ultimate bad guys hanging around, just different flavours of ick, so I would have to choose very carefully. I'd say 'a plague on both your houses' but that implies that there are only two terrible options, and frankly, we'd be fortunate if that was the case.
Even thinking about it makes me weary. So I stop.
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