Going Postal

Good Morning, my happy readers. It was dull and grey when I headed out for my morning poo behind the gardener’s shed. On my return, my duty feeder was pottering around, my grub was out, there was fresh water bubbling in my lovely cat fountain, and she was washing my spare bowls. While waiting for the kettle to boil, she is one who always makes a cup of tea. The radio was on, and the weather forecast was on, and the man was saying it was going to be dry, then overnight and tomorrow very wet.

Image generated using ChatGPT AI A perspiring Prime Minister called for coffee time at Number 10 North. My companion, Miss Blod, and I circulated, made small talk and nodded. There seemed little need for any great subterfuge, despite the fact that we had blagged our way in — listed as Number 14 and Number 14a — to a meeting of the surreptitious Group of Sixteen.

Image created using Adobe Firefly Sally was up and looking refreshed, “I saw the TV, he might as well have said it was the Americans, he didn’t hold back. These press conferences usually go one for ages and say very little, he only spoke for a couple of minutes, but it was straight to the point.” Dave lay on the bed, Sally climbed on top of him. “No, let me get undressed first.” The room phone rang at 14:15, Sally said not to answer it, Dave reached out of bed and picked up the handset.

It was fifty years ago today. Well… Not quite – but close enough for rock ‘n’ roll. This article was originally scheduled to appear over the recent August bank holiday weekend. But, as is so often the case, life decided to get in the way.

Heidi Alexander (Labour) Joy Morrissey (Conservative) Danny Kruger (Reform UK) Caroline Lucas (Green Party) For once the interesting member of the family, rather than the dullard, appears on Question Time. Joyce Rebekah Inboden was born in Indiana in 1981. The daughter of a church leader, she was educated at the $25,000-a-year Worthington Christian School near Columbus, Ohio. Besides being cheap by UK standards, the Ohio EdChoice Scholarship scheme provides some state funding for private education.

I unpacked my belongings and noticed that outside of my cabin windows was a little orange motor boat that was lowerable down to the water via a crane that swung the thing away from the side of the ship. I observed it lowering into the water full of crew – not good if you don’t have a head for heights as it swung around in the breeze.

Profumo in 1938> Bassano Ltd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Quite possibly one of the most damaging events in the history of the Tory Party. Everything was going wrong for them, they seemed like a bunch of incompetents. From the great train robbery, spies in Whitehall to the Minister of Defence cavorting with a tart who was having a simultaneous fling with a Soviet military attache.

“Localización de Ceuta” by Localización_de_Islas_Baleares.svg: Ichwan Palongengi derivative work: Magairlin (talk) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Peruvian strongman Oscar Benavides once famously said “For my friends, everything; For my enemies, the law.” Once, such a thing might have provided a succinct summary of the practice of privilege in its literal sense of “private law.”  There were laws for the Aristos and others for the commoners and still others for non-citizens and slaves.

Image by Sunrise from Pixabay There is a very big difference between being an American and a citizen of any other nation We often hear that Americans are special. We may even say that ourselves. But what does that mean? Does it mean that we have the world’s largest economy? Does it mean that we have a very powerful military? Does it mean that our dollar is the world’s premier reserve currency? Do we even know what that is? I doubt that one person in a hundred can tell you.

Can’t See T’Spuds For T’Weeds.. © Colin Cross, Going Postal 2026 It’s getting near the end of the original planting of potatoes. The original idea was to do a second planting, in between the rows that had already been lifted, to (hopefully) provide fresh spuds into October, or maybe even later. As it turned out, owing to a mix of weather conditions, my own horticultural failings and illnesses, this hasn’t happened quite in the way I’d originally envisaged.