FOOTBALL 2022

My idea for Xmas is online now https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r4dLznIATUB_lrrryNJGHuuoafhL8sd8_9rNiIlM2qI/edit#gid=0
I have not put names in as it will be easier if you create your own column – otherwise latecomers will be scrolling left and right like at Wimbledon.  I can see no reason for not having more than one go, or opening it out to others – £5 a go.  If you fill in before Xmas, which I will, you can change upto Midnight at the end of the year, which I will also do.  Moneys to me or Aaron at Sandford Stores.  
40  points for correct answers, 20 for 2nd and 10 for 3rd.  Although most of the answers will be down to between 2 and 4 options I do not think any are ‘sorted’ so about 60000 options ‘if just 3 options in each category!”  Or is it down to skill and knowledge?

BOOSTER JAB

Cool, so I get a text asking me to book, so I do at 10.20 on 15 November. In Singapore people without vaccination will pay the full cost of treatment. Vaccine passes being tightened in Wales and France.

HILARIOUS and SABATICALS FOR MINISTERS

Dominic Raab thinks it is important to have someone who has some knowledge of what is going on in BVI. General consensus in even the nasty party seems to be that serious questions need to be asked about his commitment to constituents. I suspect that he charges about £1000 an hour and therefore rationalised that he should only spend 70 hours a year dealing with constituents.

NUCLEAR ENERGY

An old but interesting subject. RollsRoyce are going ahead with a part government funded scheme to develop mini nuclear reactors. In many ways this seems to make sense, an emergency would be presumably on a smaller scale. There has been no reports of what to do with the waste – but given urgency in replacing fossil fuels and long term battery storage and hydrogen fuels still in the ‘promising’ class it would seem to make sense. How I hate admitting that the government might have got something right!

JOHNSON’S TIME RUNNING OUT

With the Daily Mail and The Times running front page articles about the sleaze in the Tory Party I suspect that our PM may soon retire and make a profitable living with after dinner speeches and (to him) witty newspaper articles. Unlike other ex-PM’s he is unlikely to be asked about policy or anything intelligent! It is possible he will head for a safe haven with no extradition treaty with the UK.

Elon Musk

Just noting this – he is selling 10% of his stake, worth $21 billion, following a twitter poll. 3.5million voted! Why? Who cares? He is just having fun before having to pay a bi tax bill and repay some loans in August. He will still be worth , sorry I will rephrase that, his financial wealth, will still be around the $300 billion mark. Although that is probably just Monopoly money as he could not cash it all in at that price – could he?