Things to do on your birthday:
Get up and go for a run because it’s a beautifully crisp and sunny morning.
Return from your run in a snowstorm because that’s the sort of weird weather we are having.
Mix up all the ingredients for a cake because Granddaughter Number Four (8 years old) says you can’t have a birthday lunch without cake.
Put the cake to bake in the oven while you have a shower and get properly dressed for the day.
Organise a light breakfast because you’ll all be having a birthday lunch.
Generally get organised.
Such has been my birthday so far.
Donald Trump has been pardoning people in the USA, some of them violent and convicted of murder, or so I hear, and letting them out of prison. Here in the UK we have a woman not much older than I am today having her prison term (for being a Just Stop Oil protestor) extended because they can’t find a tag to fit on her wrist and allow her to finish her sentence in the community. Here’s a report:
“A 78-year-old climate protester has had her prison term extended for being “unlawfully at large” when government contractors were unable to find the right-sized tag for her wrist, which would have allowed her to complete her sentence in the community.
Gaie Delap, a retired teacher and Just Stop Oil protester, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for her participation in a climate protest on the M25 in 2022 and was released last November under the home detention curfew (HDC) scheme.
She was recalled to prison just before Christmas. Because of a history of deep-vein thrombosis, she could not have a tag attached to her ankle and no wrist tag that fitted her could be
On Friday she learned that the time she must spend in prison had been extended. Her supporters said she was shocked to receive a letter delivered to her cell saying that her time behind bars had been extended by 20 days as it corresponded to the period of time after she was notified of her recall to prison. During that time she had been at home with her suitcase packed, waiting to be arrested and reincarcerated.”
And here’s a quote from Tony Benn:
“If democracy ever dies, it won’t be the Red Army: it’ll be the media that destroys democracy by denying people the voice sonthat they can tell the government what they want.”
And here’s a link to a story about a Portuguese politician accused of stealing suitcases at airports. You couldn’t make it up.
However, it stopped snowing and the sun came out again.
Life foes on. Stay safe and well, everyone.
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