Feeling quite grateful tonight. The weather’s been a bit naff and I never got done half of what i’d intended but I chattered on the phone to lots of nice people and all my family seem to be keeping well. When I stop to think about children (three), stepchildren (five) and all their offspring (twenty one), not forgetting the offspring’s offspring (eight, I think), well that’s a whole lot to be grateful for. Yesterday I had a nice couple of hours out in the sunshine with my daughters then came home and had an hours chat with my son. Today I saw that Claudia had posted pictures of handsome grandsons Henry and Christian and granddaughter Lou had been on the beach with gorgeous Artie. All these reminders keep popping up and keep them coming I say.
Also grateful to still be together are the world’s oldest married couple. Hubby Julio is 110 years old and his missus is 104. They’ve been married for 79 years, live in Ecuador and have now been mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records. They had five kids and quite a number of grandchildren. That’s quite a record, congratulations to a love couple..
We often hear of valuable paintings being stolen and a Dutch masterpiece called “Two Laughing Boys With a Mug of Beer’ has been stolen from a small museum in Holland for the third time. What surprised me most was to learn that the thefts are often stolen to order and then sold to criminals who use them to bribe officials and get shorter sentences for a variety of crimes. This is a funny sort of ‘you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’.
A man was found drifting off the coast of Spain on a surfboard and said he had been there for three days having fallen from a cruise ship. Really? How does a 55 year old man fall off a cruise ship and just happens to be holding a surfboard or maybe it just happened to be floating around in the sea when he landed. Sounds very fishy to me. Also this week in Greece a small child had been playing in the shallow waters on an inflatable unicorn. Without her parents realising it she was pulled by the currents and floated further and further away from the beach. Her parents raised the alarm and officials radioed a local ferry and the captain immediately went to search for the little girl. She was found, hauled on board and returned to her parents. The captain and his crew were hailed as heroes.
Following a popularity poll it seems that both BoJo and the conservative party have suffered a huge slump following the exams fiasco. Now there’s a surprise. And today it was reported that the Ofqual boss Sally Collier who has quit her post due to the exams crisis will leave with a pension pot of one million pounds. She will very likely also be offered another well paid job in the civil service. It’s time to stop such huge payouts to inept politicians. Slumberland calls. Nighty night.😴💤😴