Since before Christmas I have been on a cruddy journey that has involved coughing, sneezing, phlegm, sleepiness and disturbed nights, loss of appetite and taste plus one or two other symptoms of cruddiness that are hard to pin down. I don't know what you would call this thing. Certainly not a cold and not flu either but I am positive that it has nothing to do with the COVID vaccinations I have received. That's just nonsense from conspiracy theorists and QAnon nutcases.
With just a slightly sore throat remaining, I am pretty much through the cruddiness now. Being unwell does not sit well with me for as I was saying the other day, I have been generally blessed with robust good health throughout my life thus far.
We looked after Little Phoebe today and now she is sleeping in her cot upstairs because we will be looking after her again tomorrow. Her mummy spent the day at her office in London. Usually she works from home but occasionally has to go back to base.
Stew and Frances's house move has still not happened and I fear that the pack of cards will collapse any day soon. They had moved Phoebe to a new nursery school (Monday to Wednesday) in expectation of the move. They had also bought new furniture and a washing machine and boxed up most of their belongings in the rental house they have been living in since the summer of 2020. The reason for the blockage is unclear but complacent solicitors do not help the process - that's for sure.
I can't quite remember how it happened this morning but I found myself singing "Baa Baa Black Sheep" with Phoebe and you know what? She joined in! Not every word but yes - she was trying her best to sing along with a song she has heard many times. It won't be long before we are doing a proper duet together and she is not quite two years old! It is amazing to observe her language skills growing.
Out there in OGB (Once Great Britain), strikes keep happening with more in the pipeline. It is a winter of discontent. The Tory government seems reluctant to enter meaningful talks with a range of workers from nurses to train drivers and from teachers to Border Force officials. Instead, The Tories prefer to blame the strikers. It is an old tune, sung by successive Tory governments in which ordinary working people are viewed like the enemy within. The Tories' answer to industrial unrest is tightening up our already very restrictive industrial action legislation instead of seeking grown up solutions through respectful negotiation. It's all so cruddy.
Over in America, it seems that the 46th president has scored an avoidable own goal by hanging on to restricted government files rather like the previous incumbent did. Naturally, this is all grist to the mill for America's right wing. They'll be using the revelation like petrol to refuel the engine of their angry machine. And that's cruddy too.
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