Is it me, or is everything falling apart? The Queen's speech will be entertaining this Christmas. How can she possibly avoid referring to all the things which she has been dragged into since the last one?
The year is not over yet. We may end up with a government which is naturally hostile to the royal family and Prince Andrew may be forced to have a little chat with the FBI.
Personally, I am fighting a daily (and nightly) battle with negativity, and right now negativity is winning. I don't mind change, so long as it is for the good.
Feeling much the same Tom. x
ReplyDeleteI also feel as though I have been relegated to the scrap-heap. My phone has stopped ringing and the only letters I get are bills.
DeleteWe are limiting how much "news" we hear...this has improved life no end.
ReplyDeleteFinding even the smallest bit of positivity in anything is a step in the right direction
I would like to limit the amount of electioneering I am exposed to, but I don't like news to creep up on me from behind.
DeleteOften we just see or hear the first five minutes....not worth sitting through the rest, too depressing
DeleteThe rest often contains some uplifting, off-topic stories which I love. Cats stuck up trees, that sort of thing.
DeleteHere too, the situation is similar, and we have a real life-threatening "bonus" for at least a few days a month.Maybe the negativity is justified.
ReplyDeleteYes Yael. nobody is firing missiles at us yet.
DeleteI think it should all be put into perspective ...... we are lucky to live in this country with all its privileges ...... I thank my lucky stars every day ...... we could have been born into much worse. XXXX
ReplyDeleteMy point was that privileges are about to be taken away from us. We could have been born into much worse, true. But part of putting it all into perspective is to compare our past with our present. Once you give a peasant a loan to buy a washing machine, their whole domestic life changes forever.
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DeleteWhen I said 'personally', I meant it literally.
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ReplyDeleteHeavily armed Conservative men here are hinting about our "next Civil War" with the current impeachment hearings. The other day Trump pardoned a bunch of military men convicted of war crimes. He's talked before about how "our side" "has all the guns and ammunition". It's so obvious he's pandering to right wing military types. You think it's scary being in England right now? Trump's America is a horror show. :(
ReplyDeleteOur gun laws mean that our next civil war will be fought with pitchforks, cudgels and a few sporting guns. It will be just like our first civil war. I'm joking of course. There might be a few violent demonstrations, but no war.
DeleteFar out Jennifer (and Tom). The disquiet is getting disturbing. I feel not so much depressed as despairing, and we just have pollies lobbing climate change missiles at each other.
ReplyDeleteIn the run-up to our forthcoming election, the NHS and climate change are being used as weapons. Each party does their best to out-green each other and swear that the cherish our health care system more than the others. If the Conservatives thought so highly of the NHS, why have they left it up until now to do something about it? Everyone thinks that they have been waiting for American investment rather than borrowing even more money to pay for it.
DeleteAlthough pain can feel the same, I perceive what is happening in the US and what is happening in the UK, and any potential remedial action in both, are two very different things.
ReplyDeleteYes, but - as I have said many times before - we are intricately involved in American policies and it will be Trump who will determine any 'reciprocal' trade deals once we leave the E.U. He really does not seem like the sort of president who would do anything other than screw whichever country which seeks to do business with him. When he talks to his own fanbase he just comes right out with it. Whatever you think about the E.U. it has provided quite a high degree of protection against the rest of the world.
DeleteWe are on the precipice of dual disasters in the UK which will take decades, if ever, to rectify. A Marxist government and leaving the EU is the end.
DeleteI think we will meet in the middle one day, but it won't make any difference.
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DeleteThe outcome.
DeleteI don't watch or listen to the news any more. If I hear any more false promises from any politician I will explode with rage.
ReplyDeleteJohnson is shaking the previously non existent money tree in order to persuade people our future is safe with him.
I liked the report that when on one of his primary school visits a youngster asked him how many children he has. 4 or 5 apparently. Not sure which.
Prince Andrew recently wished a happy birthday to the wrong daughter on Twitter.
DeleteHi Tom .Sorry to delete earlier comment and thanks for visiting the "new " blog . However the new one complicated things in ways I had not anticipated . So I am back at a slightly tweaked "seductive landscape ".Many apologies for the arsing about .
ReplyDeleteWhere will it end?
ReplyDeleteThe meek shall inherit the earth...?
DeleteAnyone got a spare Netflix code so I can watch the latest series of The Crown?
ReplyDeleteNo. How can you believe it when they change all the actors?
ReplyDeleteI can suspend disbelief very easily.
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