Almost the first thing I did this morning was put some bedding in the washing machine. By the time I had run round the village, come home and showered, it was ready to hang out in the garden. Another load went in the machine as we had breakfast. A third went in later. This is what happens when the weather turns warm and sunny. By mid afternoon it was almost all bone dry.
It’s very still and calm out therein the garden. ‘England’s green and pleasant land” weather.i need to sit out there in a big sunhat with my sketchbook and capture the moment for posterity!
Over breakfast I heard a strange news report about US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. Later I looked it up on the internet to confirm that I had not dreamt it. I found this:
“U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee countered President Donald Trump's Monday statement that there would be no Israel without the actions he's taken to protect the country.
Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher, disagreed.
Speaking at the International Conference on Israeli Heritage in Judea and Samaria Tuesday, Huckabee said, "It is your heritage, without a doubt, but it is also the heritage of the United States. Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be America. We owe our very existence to what happened in this land," according to The Jerusalem Post.
On Monday, Trump said during a bilateral meeting with the Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in France, "Without me, there would be no Israel -- because no other president was willing to do what I did."
The president's comments came in the context of voicing his frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for launching retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon while Trump seeks to sign a peace treaty with Iran.”
I believe that Mr Huckabee’s degree is in religion. Maybe it included no history at all, but surely even he knows that the USA existed before the state of Israel.
And Mr Trump gives himself a lot of importance too!
Maybe politicians need to be crazy one way or another.
Here are some photos of people standing for election wearing fancy dress - a rather longstanding British tradition. It used to be just the Monster Raving Loony but nowadays lots of would be politicians dress up.
Some of the candidates are not in fancy dress, by the way.
As we seem to having summer weather, here’s a cartoon by Christopher Harry on the dangers of seaside holidays.
I’m going to sit in the garden now.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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