It’s wet and miserable outside and the last time I posted on the blog was June last year, so it’s obviously time for the 18th attempt at starting the blog as a regular update on happenings in the Draper clan. I’m currently waiting for the glue to dry on my latest modelling project. Having built a…
We are finally back in France. Brittany to be precise, and we have found that we love it just as much as we always have. It’s a bit cloudy this morning with a threat of a little rain, so, Heather’s painting and I’m blogging again. (At last ! I hear you all cry). Travelled down…
The great moral dilemma is whether to watch the World Cup or not and I’m torn. Reasons to Boycott: Reasons to Watch Are there too many “mights” in the reasons to watch column?
As a country we’ve lost a Home Secretary and then a Chief Whip and her Deputy and then got them back, and then a Prime Minister. We’re now being threatened with the return of our recently ex-PM and 2 failed leadership candidates in our ex-Chancellor and a lady that the majority of the population wouldn’t…
Just watched our Prime Minister’s press conference, strangely not really full of jokes but full of: Truss being decisive, but apparently definitely NOT sacking the Chancellor who has apparently shown his patriotism by resigning. Truss forgetting that the chronic lack of growth in the UK has been presided over by her party since 2010 Truss…
Just back from a weekend in North Wales with good mates from Southport. No phone signal. No wifi. I didn’t see any news from Thursday lunchtime till Sunday evening and it was bliss. We stayed near Beddgelert which is one of my favourite places in Britain. Surrounded by lakes, mountains, waterfalls, it really is beautiful…
Heather is watching a funeral on the TV and I’m keeping out of the way. The thought of professional welshman Huw Edwards and the sycophant in chief Nicholas Wychell is just too much. How do I feel in these days of BBC overkill? I thought our Queen did a tremendous job as Head of State….
The UK’s drift to the outer limits of right wing politics continues with the installation of Elizabeth Orban Bolsonaro Truss as our new overlord Prime Minister. Apparently 80,000 white male old people selected this person to be leader of the Conservative party and, hence, the supreme leader. With luminaries like Suella Braverman (somewhat to the…