Yesterday evening I finished planting everything on my balcony. I thought I had bought too many plants but I managed to use them all and I could probably fit in another half dozen. I’ll keep my eyes open when I next go shopping There’s not a lot of variety as I couldn’t get to a nursery but I have geraniums, petunias, busy lizzies and a couple of New Guinea impatiens. Also Elena and Andrew bought me two hydrangeas and I had a couple of green things that I don’t know the names of. It’s good to know that a job is officially off my todo list. I tried to be really careful with everything but the neighbour downstairs came out with his little handheld hoover before I’d even finished. My Daughter Sam said I should do like in the Cadbury advert and drop a bar of chocolate down with a sorry post-it stuck on. I had breakfast out there this morning in the sunshine, very nice. Could have dropped him a buttered crumpet.
I don’t know why I’ve been thinking this but do jams and pickles count as part of your five a day? I believe they were first made to preserve fresh fruit and veg for when it was out of season and especially through the winter. Seems to me that it must be a step in the right direction but I guess we don’t eat enough to make it count as a portion. Funny what you think about when in isolation.
One thing that’s annoyed me is that my watch battery has run out. No, don’t tell me to buy one online and do it myself because it’s one of those that need to be opened with a special tool and sealed. I used to collect watches but got fed up with buying batteries for all of them and now they are in a box and none of them working. Maybe I’ll try opening one of the cheaper ones and see if I can get it going. Not that I need to know what the time is anyway.
Ace twitterer Piers Morgan who loves to criticise or at times openly vilify anyone who doesn’t meet his exacting standard according to his own opinion, seems to be trying to finish his best friend relationship with Trump. He told the POTUS to shut the f*** up over Trump’s controversial statement about curing coronavirus with disinfectant. Oh dear. He has been unfollowed by the POTUS. As for our government Piers has continuously criticised their handling of the pandemic and without a doubt he will have sometimes been right and other times wrong but it is quite clear, he always plays to his audience. His latest target has been the actor Miriam Margoyles who said she had been rather hoping that BoJo didn’t recover from the virus. Piers said it was disgusting and this is where toxic tribalism has got us. I think MM actually said she had had difficulty in not wanting the PM to recover but then quickly back pedalled showing that she’s just a very silly person and not to be taken seriously. I wonder why the interviewer even asked her what she thought of the government’s handling of the situation. She hardly comes across as the brain of Britain. Once again it’s playing to the masses. They haven’t asked NannyJune yet, what does that tell you.
We’ve had our bank holiday Monday on Friday and tomorrow by my calculation is Sunday so without further ado, until mañana, buenas noches