Thirty years ago an artist bought a cottage in Gloucester for £30,000. Now she is thinking of selling and has had it valued at £250,000 give or take a pound or two but no one wants to view it let alone buy it. The problem is that during the thirty plus years she has lived there she has been hand painting every inch of every surface and it would seem that it’s not to everybody’s taste. In fact it’s not to anybody’s taste and only one potential buyer has stepped over the threshold. The colours are bright and the patterns used are varied. Polka dots mix with florals and stripes with zebra pattern, the doors, the ceilings and even the toilet are unique. Do I like it? yes, I love it but I’m not sure I could live in it. She should open it to the public as a work of art.
News to me was that Nigel Farage had his own radio show five morning a week on LBC radio. I wasn’t aware of the said radio station either but then it is a London fm broadcast so wouldn’t reach us here in Dorset. Now it seems Nigel no mates will be leaving never to return. Some staff members at the parent company Global Media had called for him to be removed, unsurprisingly he was accused of being a vile racist. He appeared on Good Morning Britain and compared Black Lives Matter to the Taliban while criticising the toppling of statues of slave owners. Will we miss him? no, I don’t think so.
Now, what is our BoJo up to? In answer to Geraldine Burge’s question a couple of days ago, I don’t think he’s on paternity leave. It seems he’s got caught up with Brexit again. Both the EU and the UK have agreed that after four rounds of talks this year no progress towards a deal has been made. I wonder how much that non event cost the tax payer. They are going to have talks to decide if the deadline should be extended which the UK doesn’t want. I am definitely baffled by Brexit. Maybe as part of the deal the EU could adopt no mates Nigel and take him far away.
This evening I went to Aldi to do a bit of shopping. If anyone is looking for plants for the garden I can tell you that there are plenty of healthy looking bedding plants and some shrubs on sale there. I bought what I needed and picked up a pack of two washable face masks. When I got to the till they wouldn’t go through – new item, not recognised. Don’t worry said the cashier, the supervisor is going to get a code or something, he’ll only be a minute. About three minutes later he came back and handed her the packet. She was serving someone else by then. I waited and she tried again, still didn’t work. Supervisor said sorry, can’t sell this, another cashier told him what to do and eventually I walked out with my new face masks. When I looked at them at home, they’re a bit rubbishy, Don’t think they were worth £4.99 and certainly not worth the wait. Good night campers.