Super Thursday! That’s what they have dubbed today. Presumably it’s because it’s the first voting day since we all went into lockdown. Maybe it’s because they want to inject a little excitement into the proceedings.
I suspect Mr Johnson has been doing that by sending gunboats to the Channel Islands. It must be an election stunt. Surely he doesn’t seriously want to start a war with France. Another bit of posturing. The fact that Jersey gets most of its electricity via undersea cables from France just underlines how closely tied we really are to Europe and what a piece of nonsense Brexit is turning out to be. We’ll take back control and ignore the fact that lots of people, and not just in the Channel Islands, have EDF as their electricity supplier, many not even aware that EDF stands for Électricité de France!
Hey ho!
By the way, I find all this Super Thursday and similar naming really annoying!
We’ll go out to vote a little later today. Our 18 year old granddaughter has already done so. She was quite excited at the prospect! Good for her!
She’s having a good day - a super Thursday, in fact - having just received the results of her latest History exam: a grade B! I’m a little confused about how they are organising things this year. I think this latest exam result is not her final A Level grade for the subject but will contribute to that final grade. But for the moment, we are celebrating a success, especially as she came away from the exam rather gloomy, having, she said, gone blank on one of the questions.
All’s well that ends well!
I am baking a chocolate cake. It’s not specifically to celebrate her success but it will serve that purpose as well. It is in fact a late birthday cake for her brother’s 16th birthday, which was last Thursday. Apparently a few days ago he said to his mother, “Am I having a birthday cake? If Grandma is making one, I would like chocolate.” I think that was a large hint. Mind you, if he were to turn up on the doorstep right now, I might not recognise him as we have not seen him since Christmas. His siblings, both older and younger, have been on frequent family adventures but her has been sequestered in his room playing computer games for the most part.
That probably explains how I managed to forget to give his present to his mother until after his actual birthday, not to mention neglecting to bake a cake for him until today. I am not entirely sure how I came to become cake-maker-general in any case. But that’s how it is.
The radio news tells me that France has now sent navy vessels to Jersey to match Mr Johnson’s show of force. The fishermen are not happy about anything at the moment. They say they just want to fish as they have always fished. In fact they want their old lives back. Don’t we all?
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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