A glut of tomatoes in the shop – so I am going to give tomato sauce another try – I did try a couple of years ago and was not overly impressed.
MUSIC QUIZ – FIRST LINES
TRUMP
Keep your friends close – but your enemies closer. Trump should be suspended from Twitter for a couple of weeks, not barred as we need to know what he is up to!
Grinding opponents in the dirt does not pay dividends – WWI, Iraq to name just 2 examples. Be humble in victory even if your opponent cannot be gracious in defeat.
My Car 2
So the new date is the 20th January – hopefully this year! From birth we are told that we are he most important person in the history of the universe. Then things occur that prove otherwise. So my car needs a new part which has to come from Germany. I am not sure why it is so special that it needs to do an Olympic Torch style tour of Britain to get to my car though! And even then it does not fully solve the problem or stop it from happening again. At this rate I will need driving lessons!
A GATHERING OF ECLECTIC VERBAL FOOD TAPAS
COVID STATISTICS – 14 JAN
MY CAR
I do not want to use this blog for my own woes – but ….. my car. At the end of November it started misbehaving! It drove beautifully, but when I locked and left it it would sulk and then the alarm would go off, the radio came on and the boot unlocked. Very strange. So when I locked it I disabled the internal sensor which worked for a while. The local garage where unable to diagnose. Then the alarm went off again and the battery went flat (I managed to stop the alarm – so the neighbours were not inconvenienced.
F*C*I*G D*S*P*C*B*E
The government has given contracts to private companies to provide free school meals (after being humiliated by Marcus Rashford). You might not agree with giving free school meals but you must be totally appalled, ashamed, aggravated, by the callous way these companies are using your tax money to enrich themselves whilst not providing the care and help needed.,