I don't believe our Brexit stress is over.
I don't believe a deal is in sight.
I don't think Parliament has a clue what to do yet.
I am not sure that this Parliament ever will have that clue.
I doubt that the current front bench talks will lead to anything.
I suspect the can has to suffer more kicking yet.
I do hope the European elections will send a very clear message - at least to the Tories that they have got things terribly wrong.
But one things I do know is that I am very tired. I'd like a break. I won't be getting much over Easter - June is my next best chance - but I may only do some light blogging for the next day or three.
I managed to get an hour or so just sitting and thinking yesterday, albeit about a new book. And I'd like to do a bit more of that. So I hope you'll forgive there being not much more said this morning.
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See you on the other side.
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Rest on your laurels for as long s it takes ……
I’ve never been confident that there are many of them
Really?
If you weren’t doing this – even this blog – then what?
I did a leaving speech for a colleague at work last week. Loads of people turned up and the speech went down well.
My colleague was totally gobsmacked that so many people came to say cheerio and what the speech said.
Very often we think we know all there is to know about ourselves and labour under that but so often under-estimate (perhaps) what we mean to other people?
Just a thought that’s all that might aid one’s feeling of self worth.
I look at the readership figures for this blog and am always bemused that so many people want to come and read my ramblings
Then I realise that this is one of the few sites where the comments are worth looking at
Halloween, Richard. Could they have picked a more hilarious date given the current Rocky Horror show that UK gov put on every day. They’re all beginning to look like caricatures.
Books, buying, reading, thinking about the next one are all healthy mind pursuits so I wish you the peace and tranquility to relax and enjoy.
Doreen
Thanks
No they couldn’t, could they Doreen? The French PM well and truly putting the boot in. I did hear he had his own reasons for doing so, but I suspect it could be revenge for Waterloo……
Anyway, the farce that passes for our government well and truly deserve it anyway. As do the liars, conmen, fantasists and fanatics behind the Leave campaign, and all those in the media that went along with them and got us into this mess.
Can’t we just revoke A50 and have done with it all?
I wish we could
6,076,257 ; and then some would agree with you!
I think everybody is fed-up to the back teeth (and beyond) with Brexit.
Everything sensible that is going to be said has probably been said already.
Maybe there should be a complete moratorium on Brexit until Halloween at which stage, if we’ve got a government, they could beg for another flextension.
Is that what the Roman Catholic Church meant when they threatened us with purgatory ?
See what I mean? There’s nothing sensible left to be said……:-(
Have a well earned rest. You deserve it.
Even Jesus took time out.
Crikey
There’s no comparison
the point is-if He needed time out, we all do.
I really appreciate your take on things, and I do like the below the line stuff too. I’ve only commented once before (I think), but it doesn’t mean I don’t care. More I don’t feel I have better or different to say than other commentators have already.
Hope you have a bit of a nice break with time for yourself and your family – you certainly deserve some time off. Very much hope you can have some fun too! Fun is very important! Big grin.
Very best wishes to you! Maggie
I will take this weekend off – and the Easter weekend
Beyond that it will have to wait until June….
“…..Beyond that it will have to wait until June…. ”
….or the end of October or sometime-never…. I worry about your role model…. 🙂
Doctor Crow diagnoses signs of early onset Brexitosis…. I fear there may be a pandenic looming. I prescribe walks in the fresh air, plenty of bed rest and regular doses of products of fermentation…..
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“I will take this weekend off — and the Easter weekend…”
Er…..hasn’t Easter been postponed until October….or have I missed something….. ??
I don’t know whether I’m coming or going…remaining or leaving…on my head or on my arse…. does it matter ?
I’m not sure any longer. I don’t know whether I’m British, English, Scottish , European or a Yorkshireman. And I don’t fucking care…and no bugger else does either…….. or so it seems.
If I can manage to convince myself that a retain some of the decent attributes of being a hoooman…that’ll do for tonight.
Good stuff alcohol. Much maligned. 🙂 Hic !
Richard, what you must absolutely not do is work beyond your physical capacity because it will likely end in tears, or serious illness, as it has for me, if you do. I didn’t want to stop altogether but poor health came and bit me on the bum. It would surely be worse for you, and certainly for your readers, if your opinions weren’t there to sustain us in the face of our government’s intransigence and incompetence. As selfish as that might sound, look after yourself and your family first.
I will try….
Seriously
And I hope you’re OK
Absolutely. I agree with every word and with Maggie above.
We’re all suffering from lack of sleep, those of us who pay attention to the politics of these nations of the UK.
Your output is not only prodigious, but thoughtful: thinking consumes energy just as much as energetic muscular activity; take, and enjoy your break…….and plenty more of them at suitable junctures in the future.
I have to re-establish this discipline
Bizarrely I had it when wholly self-employed and lost it when employed
What does that say?
It says that once you’re used to self-employment and the relative flexibility it can bring (that’s not to say the work doesn’t have to be done, but at least you have a say about when you do it), it can be hard to go back to being a wage slave meeting someone else’s deadlines.
Come October I am escaping wage slavery….
“Come October I am escaping wage slavery….”
Well I always say, if you are going to have to work for an idiot, you might aswell work for yourself. 🙂
I’m sure that dog needs a walk. Just been out on the hills behind our house; being retired we go out every day, but even when working the dog needed walking. The larks were ascending, the ducks quacking, a curlew could be heard somewhere, buzzards circling and the dog flushing a couple of left over partridges. As you know, you come back feeling so much better – it’s cheap therapy – apart from the price of the dog food of course.
Have a good 10,000 steps-a-day break.
One walk done
And I am being dragged to football this afternoon – at Cambridge United
I admit that it’s not pretty, but I rather enjoy football at that level
We appreciate you might be human after all Richard 😉
Seriously, do have a good few days, walk the dog, eat well, have fun with your family.
Thank you once again for all you do to keep us informed on this blog, and to keep us thinking and wondering.
Having a coffee by the rive, having already taken the dog for a good walk….
It’s a beautiful morning
Looking at a poll on twitter….it looks like both labour and conservatives are going to get a slapping at the possible EU elections…..looks like the other “leave” possibles are also going down the pan….hopefully, farage will get dumped…
I do hope so John, I really do, I admit to a bit of gloating and schadenfreude at the discomfort the postponement of Brexit has caused many of its proponents. I know Schopenhauer (a philosopher for our times?) said schadenfreude was the laughter of the devil, but, I’m sorry, I can’t resist laughing at the discomfort of the Brexiters.
And its true, there are few things better at dispelling gloom than walking dogs (2 Bassett hounds in my case). Their uncomplicated enjoyment of life is a tonic for the soul.