Back to work yesterday, after my week of sick/annual leave. Without enthusiasm of any kind, I have to say. I'm in one of my 'for two pins, I'd tell them to stick the job where the sun don't shine' phases, but, unless anything seriously annoying happens, I'll probably get through it and just settle back into my customary simmering resentment at having to be a wage slave! I tried to sugar the pill just a little by leaving a few minutes earlier than strictly necessary, and going most of the way to work by bus, but the cuties were thin on the ground, the weather not being all that prepossessing - there was a family in Baker Street, though, with two brothers, 13/14 and 11/12, either or both of whom I would quite happily have shared a cuddle with, in the vanishingly unlikely event that they would have agreed to being cuddled by a fat old grump!
Needless to say, the papers yesterday were full of the new royal baby. The timing is an absolute gift for the Tories, of course, a national 'feelgood factor' scenario just days before the General Election. The cynic in me wondered whether the royal couple had 'bred to order', given that, in the absence of anything unforeseen, everyone knew the election was going to be around now, but I guess something as 'hit or miss' as pregnancy couldn't be arranged quite so felicitously for the outgoing government. Could it?
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
Needless to say, the papers yesterday were full of the new royal baby. The timing is an absolute gift for the Tories, of course, a national 'feelgood factor' scenario just days before the General Election. The cynic in me wondered whether the royal couple had 'bred to order', given that, in the absence of anything unforeseen, everyone knew the election was going to be around now, but I guess something as 'hit or miss' as pregnancy couldn't be arranged quite so felicitously for the outgoing government. Could it?
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
I've never been a "royalist" in any sense of the word, and I'd have to say that the recent addition to the Windsor family was of no interest to me whatsoever. However, like yourself, I couldn't help noticing the immaculate timing of the new arrival.
ReplyDeleteKnowing the way this country is run, I wouldn't be in the least suprised if it was revealed as part of Camerons election plan. Perhaps someone was having a word in the royal ear last autumn - "Get stuck in there lad, do your bit for the country, and we'll see you alright . . . . "
Cameron knows as well as anybody, that there's nothing quite like a royal birth, wedding or jubilee to boost the great british publics' "feelgood" factor, and that is surely something the tory spin doctors now will be working flat out on to find ways to exploit. The other lot would be the same, if they were in power.
Call me cynical, but life has has been my finest teacher.
Warmest regards - Dave
Hello Dave
DeleteOddly enough, while I'm not a royalist in the 'populist' sense, I'm actually not any kind of a republican, either. The idea of some superannuated politician being head of state is little short of nightmarish - can you imagine how appalling President Thatcher could've been? I'm of the view that the royal family earn as much as they cost the country, given the tourist dollars, euros and yen they pull in. That's not to say, of course, that the politicos, especially the Tories, won't make the most of the baby - cynicism, as you suggest, is the product of years of life experience!
Love & best wishes
Sammy B
I am back to it, too. Monday through Friday. Ugh. I am glad I don't have your long stretches, and odd shifts. I admire you, Sammy, for your abilities to do that!
ReplyDeleteAnd more eye candy. I have ZERO chance at eye candy in my daily commute, solo as it is in my truck for 22 miles/35-40 minutes. Siiiiggghhhh.
Nothing on the politics except that more clowns keep crowding the GOP Nominee Clown Car. So far, Hillary seems to be our only savior.
Peace <3
Jay
Hello Jay
DeleteNot such a long run of shifts for me this time around, just the five, then a long weekend off. The eye candy, as and when I'm lucky enough to be treated to the cuties, does help the commute, though - yesterday being a bank holiday meant that the journey into work was pretty good in that respect.
Another couple of days, and our diet of wall-to-wall politicians will be over for another five years (in theory, at least). What about Bernie Sanders for president over there, though? From what little I've seen or heard of him - which is basically a few blog posts over the past few days - he sounds like the sort of candidate I'd vote for, given the opportunity.
Love & best wishes
Sammy B