Well, we’re not going to get the talked-about, half-promised extra bank holiday after all. England’s women’s football team couldn’t quite beat Spain’s women’s football team after all. I find myself almost relieved as I don’t think I could have stood the fuss if they had won. So it goes. I didn’t watch any of it on TV either. I’ve just been doing loads of washing, taking advantage of the promise of a decent day.
It’s not actually sunny but it’s still quite warm: one of those very still days we sometimes get in English summers. Maybe the sun will come out later.
Meanwhile, Canada and Tenerife are still burning and Mexico is bracing itself for the arrival of Hurricane Hilary. Does naming meteorological phenomena make them any easier to bear? Or is it an attempt to placate the weather gods, rather like calling the Cape of Good Hope in that way to try to ward off shipwrecks? Whatever the motivation, it must still be frightening to face the prospect of your home being devastated by fire or water - almost biblical threats!
Mainland Spain is apparently due for more hot weather - 40°!! I hope our daughter has packed enough suncream for herself and her small people on holiday in Almería. Fortunately they have a swimming pool to fall into.
On the subject of Spanish swimming pools, here’s a little something I found the other day:
“Earlier this week, the regional government of Catalonia put out a statement to local authorities in which it said that women must be allowed to go topless in swimming pools.
Though the right to go topless is enshrined in a 2020 law, some public swimming pools have prohibited the practice, leading to several complaints of discrimination.
But in a letter from the Department of Equality and Feminism, local authorities were told that stopping women from going topless “excludes part of the population and violates the free choice of each person with regard to their body”.
Any town hall found to have breached the norm could receive a fine of up to €500,000.”
Hmm! I wonder how they would feel about such a law in those southern states of the USA where some parents have objected to the bible being read in school because of the immoral,content of some of the stories!
I read that the descendants of 19th century PM William Gladstone are going to Guyana to apologise for the family’s links to slavery in the past. Like other people whose modern wealth harks back to a dodgy past (although I suspect it was hard not to be connected to slavery if you were making money back in the day) it seems they have donated money to organisations making “reparations”. Whenever I read about apologies and reparations I always wonder of they also contribute to organisations fighting to abolish modern slavery, surely as important as compensating those whose ancestors suffered, if not even more important.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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