Give us a clue

Last week I came to the end of a 7 week job involving a 60 foot scaffold tower and a half  ton of proper lime mortar. I cannot say I feel fitter for the experience, but it did not break me. We were very lucky on all counts, especially with the weather. You cannot use lime mortar during periods of frost, and this summer's heat would have made it next to impossible too. The 50 year-old owner was also my assistant and he made very generous allowances for my age and arthritis.  Sometimes it is good to be paid to do something which requires no mental exercise, especially if the money is good.

I have not been blogging much during the job - partly due to the fact that Blogger will not let me sign in on my iPhone, and by the time I get home I am knackered and have to cook. I don't do recipes.

I have - more than once - said that when I get tired of blogging I remember Weaver (Pat Thistlethwait) and continue to blog because of her. She has said - also more than once - that she relies on all of us to keep her entertained, so I think that this is not just a duty, it is a pleasure to think that we do.

We are all a bit worried about her of course, and her son is not responding to any messages asking him about his mother's current circumstances, even though he continues to write as if nothing is going on at all. Just a word from him would put us right, no matter what that word was. 

Rishi Sunak struck a deal with Suella Braverman to secure his success in the latest contest and he is now paying a high price for it. Who broke the migrant system which she says she is trying to fix? What Home Secretary would deliberately allow the conditions in a holding centre to deteriorate so badly that it sends a message to would-be migrants about how Britain is such an appalling place to be that they should not bother to risk their lives in rubber dinghies to get here? 

She pledged to get the overcrowded centre emptied as soon as possible and began that work by dumping coach loads of  desperate, hungry people on the pavement in central London yesterday. Ordinary bystanders had to arrange to have them rescued.

Like every other member of this hopeless cabinet, she defends herself in Parliament by blaming others. Today it is Albania's fault. 

France is accused of taking money to stem the flow of desperadoes but they still get over here in numbers. Why? Because France hates us even more since Brexit, and even a stinking, overcrowded and disease-ridden holding centre in Kent is better than  rows of tarpaulins in a sea of mud at Calais.

She has already been sacked once. She needs to be sacked again soon, even if only to save the Conservative Party.