Dame Joan Bakewell DBE is also Baroness Bakewell a Labour Life Peer who sits under this title in the house of Lords. She was appointed voice for older people by the UK government. Well that’s all very well but she was handed a fine by the police for leaving her car running, parked at an angle and lights on. The car had no driver or passengers. When contacted by police she replied ‘oh dear I’ve done that before because it’s a keyless vehicle’. A prosecution was brought against Dame Joan but postponed due to coronavirus lockdown. The case was later dismissed as it was found she had paid her fine and the prosecution was an admin error. She can be my voice any time.
Social distancing has definite advantages when it comes to managing coronavirus but it has its disadvantages too. A man travelling from Manchester to Bournemouth was found dead by cleaners at the end of the journey. Staff on the train had not realised he had died of a heart attack soon after boarding the train, staff have been advised to avoid interacting with passengers as part of the coronavirus measures. They do not walk through the train checking tickets and making sure everyone is ok. That this poor man was dead on the train for five hours is truly lamentable.
The Trump has had plenty of bad press this week with reporters focusing on the many inappropriate statements made by the POTUS. There is also focus on the first lady as a book about Melania is about to be published. It suggests that Melania didn’t move into the White House following the president’s inauguration not because she was cross with him, nor because of her son Baron’s education in New York but because she was renegotiating her pre-nup agreement. Bunker Boy needed his first lady with him and she used this as leverage to make him sign a new and more beneficial agreement. Is it true? I don’t know but I know I like the story.
I do like to watch Dragon’s Den and would like the producers to do more follow ups to see how the investments are panning out. It seems that even before reaching our screens the applicants are brought into a studio for a screen test and obviously many are rejected. One such rejection was BrewDog, producers of craft beer. The two hopefuls were after £100,000 for 20% of their company but they were turned away without even meeting the dragons. Their company has subsequently been so successful that the initial dragon investment would now be worth £360 million and would have been the most lucrative investment ever in the den. £360 million for twenty per cent means that BrewDog is worth £1,800,000,000, just look at all those noughts. We have a master brewer in the family, I only hope she’s spent lockdown working on a new craft beer. Well Alison, have you? Sleep well my lovelies. 😴💤😴