I have to say that I’m very disappointed today to find out that my favourite Italian ice cream parlour has shut up shop. Gigi is no more in the Burlington Arcade five minutes from my front door. I’m guessing that between lockdown when they were closed for several months and then on reopening there were some new places opening up on the main high street, it seems it was no longer viable. I’m going to say that it would appear that the people of Bournemouth prefer quantity in places like sprinkles to quality from Gigi. On a more positive note, it might help my diet.
I wondered how quarantine was going to be policed or even if it would be. The first person has been fined £1000 in Ireland for breaking their isolation after returning from Spain. I think it gets policed if someone complains or in other words, if they rat on the isolator to the authorities. Is this the new neighbourhood watch?
There’s a lot of fuss today about the Harry and Meghan Show after they have been signed up by Netflix for £112 million.. Piers felt like me saying that their knowledge of producing could be written on the back of a postage stamp. Exactly. They are also irritating everyone with their patronising stance that they will be ‘shining a light on people and causes and creating content that informs but also gives hope’. Whatever that means. They are doing it for the money, honey. I wonder what Harry thinks about the soon to be released Netflix tacky musical about his mum princess Diana. And to top it all a former Lib Dem MP is demanding that they pay back all the money spent on renovating Frogmore Cottage and they should do it now and not in itsy bitsy instalments.
A mother in Manchester went back to a charity shop for a refund on some purchase she had made. The amount was £9 but when she next checked her bank account she found they had refunded £90,000. She didn’t stop to think about it for very long and immediately transferred cash to the accounts of family and friends. Needless to say she didn’t inform the shop either. When they realised their error they managed to put a stop on the woman’s account but by then over thirty thousand had disappeared. The woman who has six children and works as a cleaner had no way of refunding the money and was taken to court. The judge said that she knew what she was doing and that temptation got the better of her (always did, ever since Adam and Eve). She was given a 15 month jail sentence suspended for two years. I could handle that for thirty grand. But for now it’s time for bed. Nighty night.😴💤😴