Well, Boris Jonson has been dishing out honours: Dame Priti Patel and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg among others. But he’s a bit peeved because of the findings of the various enquiries and investigations and he’s resigned from Parliament, expressing his belief that there is a witch-hunt going on against him. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wrote a book about it all. There are enough daft people out there to buy copies of it!! He didn’t give any kind of honours to Nadine Dorries, who apparently is his biggest fan or at least one of the biggest. She said initially that she would stay in parliament to support her party but not long after making that statement, she was gone. Perhaps she’s peeved not to be Dame Nadine!
On the radio yesterday evening, possibly in The News Quiz, a question came up about education and how to improve it. One wag commented that there is a lot of talk about improving state education but looking at the expensively privately educated government who, the speaker declared, are making a bit of pig’s ear of government, maybe we should be concentrating on improving private education!.
Occasionally I have a little rant about the absolute plethora of “days” for this and that. The latest contender is Father’s Day on Sunday. According to one source:
“Father’s Day is generally believed to have been inaugurated in 1908 by a West Virginian woman who missed her own dad.
Grace Clayton had lost her father several years before, but was roused to act by an incident that would shake her town for generations. The 1907 Monogah Mining Disaster left a thousand children fatherless, when an accidental explosion killed 250 fathers and 367 men.
Inspired by the US’s first Mother’s Day earlier that year, Clayton encouraged her pastor — Reverend Robert Thomas Webb — to dedicate a special service to the victims of Monogah.
This was held on July 5, the closest Sunday to her own father’s birthday.
So Father’s Day was not originally a day of breakfast in bed and greetings cards. It was a dedication to unforgotten fathers, and a memorial to the tragic loss of men’s lives.”
Okay! But like Mother’s Day, which when I was a child was called Mothering Sunday, it’s become another source of income for the card manufacturers and purveyors of tat! Incidentally, I was always told that Mothering Sunday began long ago as the day when girls who were in service, maids and cleaners and cooks for the rich folk, had a day off to go and visit their mothers and do a bit of cooking and cleaning for them!
Anyway, this morning on social media I found one of those quotations that make us smile:
Tomorrow is National Stay in Bed Reading Day.
I just made it up.
Tell the others.(Anon)
It’s perfect for my Granddaughter Number Two, who always carries a book around with her and thinks the most delightful occupation in life is to curl up with a book!
Out in the wider world, Canada is on fire. The pictures are quite terrifying. “Fires are now burning in every Canadian province except for Prince Edward Island and Nunavut, a frigid northern region where trees cannot survive. The amount of land consumed is also striking – more than 4.4m hectares has burned so far this year (2.7m since the start of the fire season).” How can a whole country be on fire?
In New York and other places nearby in the USA those fires are affecting them as the smoke has been drifting their way, causing major air pollution problems. The world is crazy!
In the midst of all the doom and gloom, there are still bits of joy. Almost six weeks ago a small plane crashed in the Colombian rainforest. Two weeks after it disappeared the plane was found with dead adults but no children from the family concerned. Now four siblings, aged 13, nine, four plus an 11-month-old baby, have been found, rather hungry but alive and well.
And here’s another bit! A California family, sorting through a deceased elderly relative’s house, found a cache of copper pennies, worth more than million dollars! I didn’t know the USA had pennies but it seems that they do. They used to be copper until 1943 when the copper was needed for munitions and they started making pennies out of a copper and zinc mix. One million copper pennies were hoarded by a couple of German immigrants who believed in the value of metals. Maybe we should stop throwing stuff away!
Talking of munitions, here’s a cartoon that made me smile.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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