The sun shone all day and it feels much warmer. I noticed that all the bulbs were springing up. I stayed in most of the day editing but took a late afternoon walk up my hill. The snowdrops are out. Things felt much jauntier. A grey squirrel ran out in front of me. My kestrel sat on the telegraph pole and flew off as I approached. It’s been a good year for moles judging on the number of molehills.
We’re not even at the end of January. What happened last year was that we had this early warmth and more delicate fruit trees budded early but were caught out by a later frost. We only had three pears last year! I’m hoping for better.
Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, our resident clown is deploying his usual tactics to Partygate:
He’s keeping his head down, hiding in handy fridges
He’s threatening all his MPs and sorting out who chuck under the bus
He is trying to delay things as long as he can so that the heat dies down
He’s created a positive narrative that he has sent his minions out to disseminate to the gullible (he got Brexit done, he defeated Covid, he has made all the right big decisions, Partygate is just a piece of cake, big things to get done – Ukraine, cost of living……. he needs to focus on the big things).
He is hoping that the heat dies down, he can work on the waverers and lie his way out of it.
With such a fickle gullible electorate he may be right.
He might be lazy, careless, incompetent and a blatant liar but when it comes to his own greedy career he’s a ruthless, callous, immoral monster. Never underestimate him. He’s going to throw lots of people under the bus in order to hang on to power.
It seems that the UK is hard on the heels of the USA in becoming a lawless banana republic led by a law-breaking despot who lies for a living, breaks laws and is above the law.
Where is Sue Gray’s report?? Has she been leaned on?? Have they instructed her to delay it?? Have they instructed her to rewrite it??
We are in the unenvious situation of having a ‘leader’ who is known to be a rule and lawbreaking liar but who wriggles his way out of it.
There’s a name for this!!
So, yesterday there were another 102,292 new cases with 346 deaths. We are assured that the peak has passed – doesn’t look like it to me with these numbers going up. But there you go.
There’s nothing political about scrapping Plan B and removing all restrictions. Where is Chris Whitty?? Is he hiding with Johnson??
They have now discovered blood markers so we can tell who is at risk of long covid – they just can’;t do anything about it!!
Anyway, enjoy your freedom. Stay safe!!