Milk and Honey
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smokingbootDelicious breakfast this morning, Greek yoghurt with raspberries, brambles and honey. Really can't complain about my life.
Looking around, seeing how tough things could get for people.
Gerard Woodhouse, a local Labour councillor who runs the L6 Community Centre in Everton, Liverpool, said the food bank and food union that the charity runs were opening six days a week rather than four due to increased demand, but at the same time had seen a reduction in donations in recent days because “people who used to donate now need help themselves”.
“Shops are donating potatoes, leeks, cabbages, but I can’t get rid of them. They’re getting handed back to me because people are saying, ‘It costs too much to cook,’” he said.
In other cases, “People are getting into bed at 6pm so they haven’t got to put the heating on or use any electricity. The number of people asking for thicker quilts is crazy. If I had 200 this week they’d have gone,” he said. “You hear about the poor times in the Thirties. Those stories are now happening today. It’s just going to get worse and worse.” (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/02/tories-fear-poll-disaster-over-high-taxes)
Much as I like Scotland, I find myself facing discontent, thinking R and I should have moved to the EU. Not that the hike in energy bills isn't going to sting there as well, but at least we wouldn't be held captive to this band of thieves and imbeciles. The way to avoid spending fuel money is to work from home in Spain or Italy, problem solved! https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/work-at-home-britons-lured-to-italy-with-digital-nomad-visas-9ncph3992
Looks like a good option; excepting the obvious drawback that the most vulnerable do not have lives that can up and move around so easily. No clue what will happen here, only that I don't trust this government to give a damn about the food/ fuel crisis. Johnson will apply the same method of Give 'Em Enough Rope to Sunak as he did with Truss. He knows very well that at this point, colleagues are not so much potential successors as rivals. So up goes the Foreign Secretary, instagrammed into Thatcherite likeness until she proves herself an empty-headed mirror gazer, and suddenly she's no contest. Sunak is smart and very rich, so much so that Tories look to him to rescue them from Johnson. Suddenly he's the high tax chancellor, likely to be tainted by this if he doesn't walk it back. If it works, Johnson wins, and if it doesn't, Sunak loses. So where does this leave the Tory party? The only contender who is both clever enough to run the country and mendacious enough to keep pretending Brexit is a success is Gove, and the voters detest him. Able politicians will be very wary about lifting the poisoned chalice. They'll wait til the worst is over. BJ will cling on until some party monster finally stamps on his fingers and sends him plummeting down the white cliffs into obscurity.
Caught a bit of Shirley Valentine yesterday. Weird to think that this is the portrayal of someone about 20 years younger than me now. And I never suffered Shirley's problem, what she calls 'such a little life!' Even when the world was horrible, it was always a big, big world and very beautiful. But we were unusual in some very good as well as very bad ways. There are going to be people now stuck in little lives, because nothing leads to little lives like poverty, like poor meals and poor schools and no information and no new experience. Then add the return to 70s attitudes re foreigners and foreign-ness, that Brexit con, that last hurrah of jingoism ushering in the post-truth era. People are going to have less, in their houses, their heads, their hearts, their bellies.
I am glad not to be a child now. But then, I grew out of the 60s and 70s and had a wonderful time, maybe they'll have the same. It's just strange to see a circle of time cricking like an old waterwheel right the way back to its original position.
Looking around, seeing how tough things could get for people.
Gerard Woodhouse, a local Labour councillor who runs the L6 Community Centre in Everton, Liverpool, said the food bank and food union that the charity runs were opening six days a week rather than four due to increased demand, but at the same time had seen a reduction in donations in recent days because “people who used to donate now need help themselves”.
“Shops are donating potatoes, leeks, cabbages, but I can’t get rid of them. They’re getting handed back to me because people are saying, ‘It costs too much to cook,’” he said.
In other cases, “People are getting into bed at 6pm so they haven’t got to put the heating on or use any electricity. The number of people asking for thicker quilts is crazy. If I had 200 this week they’d have gone,” he said. “You hear about the poor times in the Thirties. Those stories are now happening today. It’s just going to get worse and worse.” (https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/02/tories-fear-poll-disaster-over-high-taxes)
Much as I like Scotland, I find myself facing discontent, thinking R and I should have moved to the EU. Not that the hike in energy bills isn't going to sting there as well, but at least we wouldn't be held captive to this band of thieves and imbeciles. The way to avoid spending fuel money is to work from home in Spain or Italy, problem solved! https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/work-at-home-britons-lured-to-italy-with-digital-nomad-visas-9ncph3992
Looks like a good option; excepting the obvious drawback that the most vulnerable do not have lives that can up and move around so easily. No clue what will happen here, only that I don't trust this government to give a damn about the food/ fuel crisis. Johnson will apply the same method of Give 'Em Enough Rope to Sunak as he did with Truss. He knows very well that at this point, colleagues are not so much potential successors as rivals. So up goes the Foreign Secretary, instagrammed into Thatcherite likeness until she proves herself an empty-headed mirror gazer, and suddenly she's no contest. Sunak is smart and very rich, so much so that Tories look to him to rescue them from Johnson. Suddenly he's the high tax chancellor, likely to be tainted by this if he doesn't walk it back. If it works, Johnson wins, and if it doesn't, Sunak loses. So where does this leave the Tory party? The only contender who is both clever enough to run the country and mendacious enough to keep pretending Brexit is a success is Gove, and the voters detest him. Able politicians will be very wary about lifting the poisoned chalice. They'll wait til the worst is over. BJ will cling on until some party monster finally stamps on his fingers and sends him plummeting down the white cliffs into obscurity.
Caught a bit of Shirley Valentine yesterday. Weird to think that this is the portrayal of someone about 20 years younger than me now. And I never suffered Shirley's problem, what she calls 'such a little life!' Even when the world was horrible, it was always a big, big world and very beautiful. But we were unusual in some very good as well as very bad ways. There are going to be people now stuck in little lives, because nothing leads to little lives like poverty, like poor meals and poor schools and no information and no new experience. Then add the return to 70s attitudes re foreigners and foreign-ness, that Brexit con, that last hurrah of jingoism ushering in the post-truth era. People are going to have less, in their houses, their heads, their hearts, their bellies.
I am glad not to be a child now. But then, I grew out of the 60s and 70s and had a wonderful time, maybe they'll have the same. It's just strange to see a circle of time cricking like an old waterwheel right the way back to its original position.
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