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The cold spell has broken – 14C today and perpetual drizzle. Force 10 winds on north Cornwall Coast. So unlikely to be a white Xmas – Daily Mail is blaming the Met Office!
Just to restate – it has been predicted that February 2023 could be very wet due to La Niña – so that Whitehall cannot say it was not warned!
Honesty here. I totally agreed with proportional representation until the right wing mobilised. I could cope with a communist party that would probably never muster 5%. The Greens would get at least that and would be heard in Parliament. Now Reform or whatever fascist party is forming to the right is reaching 8% and possible 3x this. So I am nervous!
I guess I am also a little more than confused at how anyone would support a tosser like Farage. I guess I have underestimated the racism and sexism, and homophobia of the British Public. The rich have a vested interest in supporting the right wing – profits and labour suppression. The poor is a little more difficult. Is it the unobtainable dream that they while for? Or are they suckered into the blame game? Immigrants, unions, EU, wokes, vegans,, etc.
4 shallots, 2 sticks celery, 200g mushrooms, 2 garlic cloves, 90g fine almonds, 90g hazel nuts, 30g dried cranberries, 150g gruyere, 300g green lentils, 60g breadcrumbs, chilli flakes, 1 tsp dried sage, 3 eggs…… then 1tbsp caster sugar and 200g fresh cranberries cooked for 2 minutes and then put in the bottom of the loaf tin before the rest. Cook 45mins at 160C – then rest for 10 minutes and turn out upside down.
After what seemed like weeks the grass appears green again. The frost first thing has gone from even shady spots. Temp up to 6C and double that tomorrow.I am not sure you can have double a temperature? Long range weather is chilly with some showers and frost at night, followed by a colder than normal January.
Christmas order done for click and collect next Weds, No idea who is coming round or when apart from Tams & Co on New Years Day.
And now it is the 18th and still cold with the damp. Only 2C this morning and drizzle started at about 8m. Supposed to warm up later.
Still freezing -5 this morning. Tomorrow should be the last sub zero start to the day with temperatures freezing up to 11C tomorrow and rain. This has been the coldest spell we have had for a few years. No doubt the climate change deniers will be having a field day!
There are no safe ways for asylum seekers to reach the UK. Merry fucking Christmas. Yet people (I hate having to call these low lives people! have been celebrating the deaths of people in the Channel. Tory MP’s are supporting new legislation which is against International Law. They have lost the argument against Labour, and are now trying to save themselves from Reform Party/UKIP/fascists.
Another freezing one. Frosty this morning so a very delicate trip to the shop at 6.30 to do the supplements and other crap that needs putting in Saturday papers. Looks to be set in for at least another week. I don’t mind as long as it does not get slippery. Sun out but not really any warmer – frost still in sunny bits. No sign of gritters out yet – it could get expensive if this cold period remains. Still it is nice to see the sun – possible snow overnight?
I think the government, such as the pathetic incompetent crew in Westminster call themselves, may have misread (not surprising as they seem illiterate in many ways) the public mood to recent union action. Of course the die hard and nearly dead will condemn union action action that delays their hip replacements and doctors appointments, the self employed bigots (who always seem to have time to call radio phone-ons) will bemoan the public service workers that they are too thick to realise that they rely on them. The general public who have suffered under austerity, then the Boris debacle, then austerity again, are sympathetic to the need to pay public sector workers fairly. The self employed with brains also realise that they need customers with money to spend on their products!
The public are also becoming aware of the massive fraud they have been subjected to by this bunch of shysters who call themselves a government.
On twitter recently someone asked what the opposite of ‘Woke” was. My initial response was “Bigot” which I thought was a clever answer. However in retrospect it was wrong. “Woke” people can be “Bigots” too! In America Florida Republican Ron Desantis announced his candidacy for the Presidency by saying that he was so anti-woke that Florida was where wokes come to die. A strange turn of phrase – but this was America!