Sotheby’s have sold a pair of sneakers for $560,000. They had been worn by NBA champion Michael Jordan in 1985 for his first season with the Chicago Bulls. Nothing was mentioned about who was selling them nor who was buying. I have to wonder how a second hand pair of shoes can be worth that sort of money.
We are being told that temperatures will be rising this week. I thought the forecasters had said that it would be hot this weekend, well it didn’t happen, wasn’t bad but not hot. My plants are coming along nicely and I wish I could say the same for me. Like most people I’m getting exceedingly bored and am fed up with sitting around reading, watching tv, etc. etc. I did some watercolour painting yesterday and today, just practice stuff and it helped the time go by. I’ve no idea how people become couch potatoes, I need to get out there, see what’s happening and mix with people. I once worked at an estate agents, maybe I could go back and show people around houses.
The Sunday Times has released its list of the richest people in the UK. The net worth of of our wealthiest has dropped by more than fifty four billion. I find it hard to think in billions, don’t know about you. Making it to number one for the first time is British inventor Sir James Dyson, for some reason I find this pleasing. Several of the names on the list are using the emergency furlough scheme meaning the government is paying 80% of their employees salaries. This I find troubling but I didn’t see any names, I might have struck pins in an effigy if I knew who they were. There are actors and singers and the richest woman is the Swedish heiress of the Tetra Pak company. Why am I so irritated by Posh coming in at number 62? I keep reading that she has incurred massive debts, her husband has had to bail her out, she applied for the furlough scheme and yet she is still a millionaire and so unpleasant.
For the animal lovers out there. A man in Japan found an abandoned puppy on the side of a road, felt sorry for it and took it home to care for it. He named it Luna and thought he’d better try to find out if it belonged to someone so posted a photo of the animal on Twitter. He asked if anyone knew who it might belong to with several people replying that they thought it was a baby fox and not a puppy dog. He told the twitterers that he would visit a vet the following day and give them an update. In the morning he posted another message saying that he had slept well after eating rice and that this morning he had a good appetite with defecation and urination (perhaps this is normal information in Japan but don’t worry I’m not following suit). He later found that indeed it was a fox, he kept Luna for a while longer but it is illegal there to keep foxes as pets so he took it to Kita Kitsune Farm where if you wish you can visit if you can find a plane to take you there of course. In the meantime, get some sleep and look forward to more lockdown sunshine. Good night.