State of the nation

My working at home day today was successful on one level - I’m more or less ready for Friday when I have a nightmare day of four important meetings, two of them in public. On another I am acutely aware that in being ready for the future I have built up a substantial backlog of work which I will have to try and clear next week.

Cabin fever drove me to the semi deserted local early in the evening, where rather bizarrely they were playing “I read the news today” by The Beatles. Not music you’d expect to find in a cosy but bland Surrey country pub on a midweek evening. The Old Brexiteers were at the bar as usual in their golfing casuals braying about the state of the nation and how shit every thing is, then proceeding to swap stories of their three foreign holidays a year.

We had the reverse phenomenon on Saturday when the good citizens of rural Oxfordshire (taxi drivers) blathered on about how immigrants were spoiling the party for everyone. “I can’t read and I can’t write but I can vote for Brexit” was the adapted football song that rang through my head.

Jeremy of course is going to fix it all, bless him. There was a wonderful twitter feed reported on the Beeb: “When the national lawn sprinkler association think it is worth putting on a stall at the Labour Party Conference, you know big business is waking up to the prospect of a Labour Government”. I would rather have JC than Maymite any day but I worry about who is pulling both their strings. In between sorting out endless papers and sitting on very long conference calls I dipped in to the news from the conference. The man is quite right about 75% of things but horribly wrong about the rest. I have visions of Sci Fi movies where we are back in the 1970s (unlike Theresa who would take us back to the 1950s). Mind you they had some good sitcoms in the 1970s. Terry from Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads would definitely have voted Brexit.

TSM picked us up from the pub as it was pouring with rain come 7.30, by which time she had had a ridiculously long twelve hour working day. Fortunately I had made a tortilla stack which warmed up in no time in the oven and had lots of vegan goodness in it like put lentils and tomatoes and jalapeño peppers.

Lots of other stuff happened today but I can’t  write about it because I would lose my life to blogging. Let’s just say that scaffolding, chocolate, dustbins, Hegelian philosophy, cats, leaky cat food, sucking eggs, Star Trek, new slippers and meditation all played a part. I have such a rich and varied life.