Today the kids got a lively demo of how a car hitting your stopped car is a moment you’re glad you have your seat belt on, even when it’s not going fast.
Fortunately only the car got hurt.
The stroke of luck continues.
FTR today is the day mum started chemo.
"Peachy" day, one might say.
But hey I gotta work now and tonight, so you know, lucky girl and all that.
(Joke aside I guess unmetastased cancer and unwounding car accident should be considered luck)
(Just wouldn't spit on actual luck :-)
In other news the Christmas tree landed in France in 1840, thanks to German princess Hélène de Mecklembourg, the dil of king Louis-Philippe Ier.
At that time it had already stopped being decorated with red apples symbolising the original sin, replaced by lights, cakes &small toys
(Yeah that was "fun fact of the day you didn't ask for")
(I may be a little shaken still -not the best experience and all that)
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"There was a core group of awkward squad MPs centred around Steve Baker, John Baron, Peter Bone, Douglas Carswell, Chris Chope, Philip Hollobone, David Nuttall and Mark Reckless, although others would drift in and out." #WhoGaveYouRawSewage bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
"They would meet for an hour, every Tuesday morning at 08:30 in Room R, an out-of-the-way committee room in the parliamentary office building, Portcullis House, to go through the Commons agenda, seeking opportunities to push their views&agree on tactics. "It never, never leaked."
"On govt side, the whips spotted there was an organised low-key insurgency under way, but, as 1 senior figure now admits, they didn't spot how organised&more importantly how strategic the whole exercise was. They dismissed the group as chronic conspirators w/time on their hands"
And this can’t happen if we do not live in the same world.
There is common ground to be found: We all need water, food, a roof over our heads, à reason to get up in the morning. Hope, a future. And a planet.
Not like there’s no common battle that we could unite for.
Today both my kids went in the mountain to plant some trees with the National Forests Office (cedars & black pines)
I only noticed at noon my 5-yrs old had forgotten to put on his t-shirt
He did tree-planting trek in his pyjama top
Well they had asked for a “comfortable outfit”..
He’s now proudly jumping in the living-room telling his brother: “Yeah you can go to school as a Hogwarts student, but I went in my PYJAMAS!”
Simple joys 🥰
I can now fully focus on holidays -well theirs as I’m working (getting close to 10 years w/o a full week off but hopefully it will be a thing again in, like, months)
Only 240 years of French History to go before the 31st!
(@jack@twitter where is my “happily exhausted” emoji?)
The only way that would work is if said investors did not speak English, tho in that case, they can't understand the speech.
(Yeah I do know disaster capitalists will indeed get opportunities from the ashes while getting the laws curbed as they like to fit their needs)
Do I have the strenght?
I mean, translating is my jon, but it's late...
(High-skilled: "Well we kicked out most of our low-skilled key workers and the British ones are home with Covid, so technically, those left are high-skilled")
(Low-tax: "Have you heard about our tax havens?")
When the world wreck’s bite seems to much to bear I find music a much more efficient bandage than movies or even books -captures and lifts my soul better I guess
Here’s a soul bandage for you tonight
It’s not exactly happy music but f**k is it beautiful
If you’re more in ”I need to express my rage” mode rather than nostalgia may I advise this
Feel free to reply to this with not-that-much-heard-of music
It’s my favourite style
A little more soul bandage