Cringing apologies:Blogging, along with almost everything else, has come to a near halt in the last three days as we bravely battle against a blast of 'global warming' - about bloody time, too! - and as temperature levels rose so, equally, energy levels dropped. Still, you know me, never give in and all that sort of thing, and time and time again I summoned up every ounce of will-power and managed from the depths of my sun-lounger to reach out and lift a glass of chilled Languedoc wine to my parched lips. God, I'm good!
Mind you:As any true Brit will delight in telling you, it doesn't do to be too cheerful. Yesterday was the Summer solstice so there are now only 186 shopping days to Christmas!
Creepy coincidences #376,281:There are so many of these creepy coincidences I have lost count. However, I am obliged to Charles Moore in The Spectator for this example of perhaps the creepiest of the lot:
Another startling fact from the Great War, or rather, from just before it. The car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand drove through Sarajevo 70 years ago next week bore the following number-plate: ‘A111118’ — the date of the Armistice more than four years later.
'His eyes are dim they cannot see':But, one wonders, when next week the 'Kaiserin' pulls the hidden levers and the muppets of Europe vote in Mr. Juncker as the new 'President' of Europe against Dave's wishes, will he, at last, see and understand that Britain counts for nought in diese neue Frankenreich and in fact most of the other European muppets are secretly rather tickled at any opportuunity to poke a British prime minister in the eye with a sharp stick. Perhaps, just perhaps, this will be enough to open his dim-witted eyes to the 'bleedin' obvious' that he is never going to get anything much in the way of concessions to his efforts to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the Frankenreich. Or, perhaps, it will be our dim-witted eyes that are finally opened to the possibility/probability (you choose) that he knew it all along and he doesn't mind that much because in reality he wants us to stay in the EU no matter what!
More rumbles later ... no, really ... well, I'll try ... honestly, I will . . .
