Yesterday sort of disappeared down a rabbit-hole of family birthday celebrations. Friday was our daughter’s birthday and on Wednesday Grandson Number One will be 21, and so we celebrated both birthdays with one cake. I seem to have become the official birthday cake maker for the family, even mKing one cor myself when my birthday comes around. Time was, I made rather spectacular cakes for our children’s birthdays - a London Bus, the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and other themed cakes. Nowadays it’s just sponge cake with butter icing and sprinkles.
Yesterday was also the day of the London Marathon. Sebastian Sawe from Kenya ran it in a record-breaking under two hours! Considering that it is considered good going if you complete in under four hours, that’s rather frighteningly impressive.
People dress up to run the Marathon, usually raising money for the charity of their choice. The sons of a friend of mine, for example, raised lots of money for research into motor neurone disease.
Here’s a London Marathon-themed cartoon about Starmer and Mandelson:
On the day London Marathon hit the capital’s streets, the PM insisted he still has the support of the majority of the labour party
Here’s something from my friend Colin’s blog the other day:
“A wild boar walked into the city of Vigo last night. For the first time, I believe. They’re not yet a nuisance in Pv city, though I have seen them near my house, across the river in Poio. Only a matter of time before one them wanders across one of our 6 bridges.”
I wonder if it got right into the centre. I now have an image of a wild boar strolling down Principe, the main pedestrianised shopping street, nonchalantly window-shopping.
But Colin needs to watch out for boars crossing bridges. In Sumatra an orangutan has successfully used a canopy bridge specially constructed to encourage them to cross a road which cuts through their territory.
Elsewhere in the wider world senseless violence continues:
“Israeli forces in Gaza killed a water engineer and two drivers who transported water to displaced families over four days in mid-April, exacerbating severe shortages of clean water that are fuelling the spread of preventable disease.
Israeli limits on the shipment of soap, washing powder and other hygiene products into Gaza have also forced prices up, adding to the challenge of keeping clean and avoiding infection in overcrowded shelters and tent encampments.”
And Donald Trump has apparently survived another assassination attempt. Probably just as well; he’s not become a martyr!
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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