Today, for the first time this year, I hung washing out to dry in the garden. I forced myself out of bed relatively early and put a load in the washing machine before going out for a run. This I pegged out, using correct North of England terminology, on my return and put a second load in. By late morning it was all on the washing line, moving feebly to the gentle breeze (weather forecast terminology). It wasn’t really an ideal drying day but pegging your washing out gives you the feeling that Spring has perhaps begun, despite the air being rather chill. So it’s not really very dry … but I tried!
Having organised all that, after a late breakfast I set off for the library, planning to drop my books off, maybe choose something new, and then proceed to Tesco. I arrived at the library to find it closed! It closes at midday on a Saturday I think but I hadn’t put two and two together. Surely it would make sense for the library, and other such facilities, to stay open on a day when more people can make use of them and parents can take their children to choose books! The world is crazy.
I read that the Ministry of Defence has said that the UK is preparing an aircraft carrier, the HMS prince of Wales, the navy’s flagship no less, for a possible deployment in the Middle East. Hmmm! That sounds serious!
Crews have been alerted of a potential deployment to the Middle East, according to Sky News, who also reported that the vessel’s notice to move has been shortened from 10 days to five. The warship would need to be escorted by other vessels and a submarine. So it goes. The madness continues.
Here’s a cartoon for people who believe in miracles:
The actress Jessie Buckley is a favourite for an Oscar for her performance in Hamnet. Now it seems she is getting bad press, bad social media posts, because she said in a podcast that she didn’t want her husband’s cats in the bedroom because they would defecate on pillows. That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. When I visit my son I insist that his cats are not allowed my bedroom during the night. But I’m not a famous person being criticised for my apparent antipathy to felines - she says she quite likes cats in fact, just not on her pillows. But cat lovers are saying that cat karma might lose her the Oscar. Another form of madness!
And finally, here’s another one. Here’s a link to an article about the Telegraph having published an article about a family’s struggle to pay their children’s school fees and still go on about five expensive holidays a year, despite a joint income of £345k. The trouble is it’s all invented. The family doesn’t exist! Oops!
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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