We’re damned if we do and we’re damned if we don’t. The government have received a lot of abuse for their tardiness in making changes at the beginning of the pandemic. Now, every time changes are announced as the experts try to keep up with developments around the world the government is again being slated. Anyone arriving from France, Netherlands, Monaco, Malta and a few other small countries from 04.00 Saturday morning will need to quarantine for two weeks. The Euro tunnel sold out with last minute bookings, flights increased their fares and are charging a fortune and the ferries have increased capacity. No one wants to go into isolation again but I wonder what will happen with all these people crowding together trying to get home. After all the virus is already in the countries they’re leaving, it’s not moving in at 4 am tomorrow morning.
Rudy Giuliani, an American attorney and politician, ex mayor of New York City, prosecutor of the city’s mafia and part of Trump’s legal team who has said he will do anything to protect Trump and help him get reelected. Meanwhile Rudy’s daughter Caroline is on the opposite side of the political camp and will do anything to stop Trump from being reelected. Father and daughter it seems are not falling out over their differing political opinions and have agreed to disagree. All very grown up but I’d love to be at their independence day family dinner.
Dreadful news about the train crash in Scotland after it turned back on receiving reports that there had been a landslip and then had the especially bad luck to hit another landslip just one mile back. One thing I can’t understand in this age of super technology is why there isn’t a permanent connection with the train driver. It’s been reported that a worker who was travelling on the train walked one mile to report the accident. Surely it’s an electric train, surely it should be possible for its location and status to be known at all times and didn’t anyone on the train have a phone to report their predicament? Just asking.
Fly tipping has become a real problem with rubbish being dumped in fields and verges everywhere. In Spain a man was made to retrieve a fridge he had dumped over a ravine as well as paying a forty five thousand euro fine. Here the fields used are often part of a farm and one fed up farmer took his revenge. He had installed a camera and caught a man tipping 400 old rubber tyres. He contacted the man and gave him three days to remove the tyres from his field. When nothing happened he had them loaded into a truck, drove to the tipper’s house and had them unloaded in his front garden. I would have loved to have seen his face when he opened his front door, always supposing he could open his front door of course. Nighty night, sleep tight. 😴 😴 😴