My dear auntie Joan died today. My dad's sister.  Why am I announcing this? Well, I don't want her to be just another number, another Covid death. She was the sweetest, kindest woman and I have good thoughts and memories of her. I guess that is the most important thing. We will all die but there is nothing really except love, warmth and a feeling that this is not it. A feeling that perhaps transcends what we perceive as human. That there is something more profound going on but none of us, even the most spiritual and religious can put their finger on or explain. 

Dutch Wisdom!

So much is going on that I forgot to say that,  A Dutch guy on TV just said something on the lines of, '' I am all for freedom and anarchy. Problem is, we live in a country full of idiots, and they need rules!!''

I dreamt I was in Italy, a country I have never visited but since the dream I feel I need to go and live there. I was in a shop, and, feeling nosy, I decided to climb the stairs to browse around what looked like a secret storeroom, out of bounds to the public. It was a familar scene with a lot of old fashioned signs and ornaments from another era mixed with fresh food. An Italian woman in the room was happy to see me and made me feel so welcome and loved. She didn't mind that I was trespassing and started to give me food like a delicious Parma ham served in little nests and boxes. Then she insisted I try a delicate cheese ice-cream served in small cones. It was the most delicious thing. Who knew you could taste things in dreams? The dream stayed with me all day and I need to go back to this place I have never really been to!

BRITANNIA UNCHAINED AND ADRIFT

I have noticed no Brexiteer says anything on the lines of, 'suck it up, we won, you lost!' anymore and it has been replaced with phrases like, 'it's all the EU's fault none of this is working'. Or 'it's the EU that are changing the rules' and so on and so forth till you may or not be convinced the blame lies with 27  countries in a union and not the fact that the UK is no longer in the Customs Union or the Single Market. The UK has left the EU, the CU and the SM but judging from their free, toxic, EU bashing press, one would think the opposite. They are obsessed and one could argue, still in love. They just can't let go of the thing they profess to hate. On the other hand there is an inkling that many people who voted Brexit are keeping schtum. In the old days people would be shredding any evidence of their participation in something so ridiculously damaging. As the penny, or should that be the pound? begins to drop, many people are unsubscribing their likes and membership to the many forums and Facebook pages that were so popular five years ago. Long gone are the Wigmores and Banks. They made their point and money, and have left behind to gripe, the disenfranchised, the innocent people who will inevitable suffer from all of this. That people fell for this shite is one of those things people will wonder about for years to come.