I pay for my newspaper by token which have the date on them, and hand over one week at a time. So far so good – this morning I checked the date on them before handing over. Oh shit I maust have lost a weeks worth as todays date was 9 Feb! That can’t be correct – so I checked the date on he newspaper – 9 Feb. I had no idea it was even February!
Winter Olympics – I have watched a bit, the curling is a little adictive and also ridiculous with the broom bit; talking about ridiculous the luge is a person sitting on a kitchen tray feet first and hurtling down the bobsleigh course, apparantly the skeleton is the same except head first. Is there a theme here about using kitchen equipment? How about sitting in a saucepan or frying pan and hurtling down a course. Still on the theme – the snowboarding is also ridiculous in an awestruck way! How many times can a person somersault for whilst airborne and then not break every bone in their bodies; and also the downhill – they stand on a couple of modified floorboards with a couple of walking sticks for support and hurtle down a mountain side so steep they might be able to jump straight to the finish about a kilometre below at speeds approaching 80mph (fast enough to be prosecuted for speeding on UK roads. Despite its ridiculousness I am loving it.
Politics is boring at the moment, although the Daily Mail did manage to continue its love affair with Angela Rayner by putting a photo of her on the front page again. I asked google and Note: The results indicate a very high frequency of coverage, particularly in 2025 and 2026, with her appearing on the front page or prominently in the Mail’s online political section multiple times in early 2026.
PS. It is likely to rain on/off until Saturday when we might get a frost and no rain.