It seems that Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest and It seems that Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest and by a big margin! My Italian friends are very happy about this. All they need now is permission to travel so they can visit their family in Italy again.
My German friend is feeling aggrieved because she won’t be able to visit her ageing mother without going into quarantine when she gets there. In addition, flights she books to Hamburg keep,being cancelled. Life is complicated.,
Looking at Eurovision again, the UK apparently scored a massive 0, no points at all! Surely somebody might have taken pity on us. There are suggestions that this might be something political. The rest of Europe has ganged up against us. Now, why would anyone think that.
I cannot comment on our entry, never having heard it.
We listened to Alexei Sayle’s choice of music on Desert Island Discs this morning. It was almost a matter of principle to do so as there have been suggestions that he should be “cancelled”, partly I gather for saying that Jeremy Corbyn is not an anti-semite. But we enjoy listening to Alexei Sayle anyway, so it was no hardship. However, like Michael Rosen, Alexei Sayle seems to be the “wrong kind of Jew” for some people!
I don’t like this increasing cancel-culture. Since when has it been so hard to accept that we can’t agree with everything everybody thinks? If you don’t want to hear someone’s views, you don’t need to go to the speeches they might be giving. And if you want to argue against them, there are ways to do so. I think this is what they call free speech!
Speaking of which, here’s a little more Michael Rosen:
“Dear Dominic
Did you see I've OK'd the Covid inquiry? You'd better work out how you're going to tackle the rumour that was in the press that claimed you said, 'if some pensioners die, too bad' or some such. I'm working on my 'bodies piling up' gag.
Alibi ad lib
Boris”
I see that Priti Patel is busily denying that the government was ever in favour of a herd-immunity policy regarding Covid. No doubt somebody, other than Cummings, can find some evidence about this.
Meanwhile we continue our own quiet lifting of restrictions. Our daughter and family are coming round later today for a family meal - the first time since Christmas we have sat round a table together. Yesterday, my 18 year old granddaughter decided that as she has tested negative for the virus and as I have had two doses of the vaccine, it was relatively safe for her to hug me. She asked her small sister if she was also going to hug grandma. The four year old looked us all up and down, shrugged and said no. The explanation: “I don’t like old hugs!” There you go!
I spoke to our son briefly this morning. He wants to know if and when we have plans to travel south and visit them. Maybe it’s time to venture onto trains again. We need to make plans.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone! by a big margin! My Italian friends are very happy about this. All they need now is permission to travel so they can visit their family in Italy again.
My German friend is feeling aggrieved because she won’t be able to visit her ageing mother without going into quarantine when she gets there. In addition, flights she books to Hamburg keep,being cancelled. Life is complicated.,
Looking at Eurovision again, the UK apparently scored a massive 0, no points at all! Surely somebody might have taken pity on us. There are suggestions that this might be something political. The rest of Europe has ganged up against us. Now, why would anyone think that.
I cannot comment on our entry, never having heard it.
We listened to Alexei Sayle’s choice of music on Desert Island Discs this morning. It was almost a matter of principle to do so as there have been suggestions that he should be “cancelled”, partly I gather for saying that Jeremy Corbyn is not an anti-semite. But we enjoy listening to Alexei Sayle anyway, so it was no hardship. However, like Michael Rosen, Alexei Sayle seems to be the “wrong kind of Jew” for some people!
I don’t like this increasing cancel-culture. Since when has it been so hard to accept that we can’t agree with everything everybody thinks? If you don’t want to hear someone’s views, you don’t need to go to the speeches they might be giving. And if you want to argue against them, there are ways to do so. I think this is what they call free speech!
Speaking of which, here’s a little more Michael Rosen:
“Dear Dominic
Did you see I've OK'd the Covid inquiry? You'd better work out how you're going to tackle the rumour that was in the press that claimed you said, 'if some pensioners die, too bad' or some such. I'm working on my 'bodies piling up' gag.
Alibi ad lib
Boris”
I see that Priti Patel is busily denying that the government was ever in favour of a herd-immunity policy regarding Covid. No doubt somebody, other than Cummings, can find some evidence about this.
Meanwhile we continue our own quiet lifting of restrictions. Our daughter and family are coming round later today for a family meal - the first time since Christmas we have sat round a table together. Yesterday, my 18 year old granddaughter decided that as she has tested negative for the virus and as I have had two doses of the vaccine, it was relatively safe for her to hug me. She asked her small sister if she was also going to hug grandma. The four year old looked us all up and down, shrugged and said no. The explanation: “I don’t like old hugs!” There you go!
I spoke to our son briefly this morning. He wants to know if and when we have plans to travel south and visit them. Maybe it’s time to venture onto trains again. We need to make plans.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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