The sky breaking into clouds, white glowing background beyond the weight of dark grey shapes drifting slow and tonal offering glimpses of hills, colourless curves beyond sharp edged skyscrapers.

Sipping coffee and opening the paper, Cummings breaking lockdown, wondering how the Tories will spin this, what the arc of the day will illuminate other than whirlpools of justification, catching and dragging the debris of policy, sucking it down to where the bottom feeders lurk..

Walking through the finest of mists, as if drizzle had been finely sieved before being cast, gently, upon the air, droplets growing incrementally heavier, soon enough expanding into a warm spray of rain. It's a beautiful wander, bedraggled but grinning.

Back to the news, wondering how this has all happened, half wishing that I could still be surprised by the deceit and hypocrisy of the Tory party. The obvious cover up, the difference in reaction from those regarding Calderwood and Ferguson, the spotlit discrepancy between those within and outwith the sacred circle of Brexshit's true believers - for who can still believe that the governmental eye has ever truly wavered from their one true desire? I wonder at the imposition upon the populace of a policy which, in the words dripping from the forked tongue of the government spokesmen, (is it Grant Shapps or Michael Green appearing today?), never really existed. “Except for you plebs who, despite all of the evidence placed before you, continue to believe that we care about the pandemic, that we know what we're doing.” De Piffle Paffle too frit, to use his own words, to face the public once again. What a week.

Out again, a visit to a bottle shop, where I'm plied with a seemingly unending array of tasters, whiskies and Matsu 58 degrees, staggering through the door back into the early evening, an unnamed Islay malt bottled as a Formosa special, lingering with the taste of waves, an essence of campfires by the beach, the memory of Gairloch beneath clear skies and a crescent moon, captured in a glass as the city spins by...


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