Last day of Summer

It's officially Summer Bank Holiday today - and officially Autumn tomorrow! Why on earth we have a holiday this late in the summer is a mystery. The weather is usually disappointing and this year is no exception - it's bright but cold and I've had the heating on for the last three days! This does not auger well for the winter.

We had curried veg and lentil soup with cheese scones for lunch - that's not very summery, is it?

Just got back from a chilly walk round the lotties and fields this afternoon. It reminded me I saw someone online the other day moaning that people she passed while walking by the river weren't wearing masks. Masks? Outside? In the open air...?? Get a bloody grip, you stupid woman, have a word with yourself for god's sake. Some people...

Feeling pretty pissed off at the moment actually - this nightmare seems never-ending. It's so difficult to find pleasure in anything when everything feels so wrong; all the things I'd normally do when life gets me down a bit aren't open to me at the moment. I feel I'm just treading water, waiting for all this crap to be over.

All along I've been surprised the media has been so complicit with the Govt in this Covid nonsense. It's a flu virus, that's all...a nasty one admittedly, but there have been much worse in the past. There are some encouraging signs that the media is losing patience, though. Finding this by the BBC's doom-monger-in-chief, Fergus Walsh, was a surprise; the BBC has been the prime cheerleader for the disaster narrative. Maybe people are at last starting to wake up to the fact that it wasn't the virus, it was the Govt's handling of it that's needlessly decimated the economy and ruined people's livelihoods.

The Govt caused all this damage. The virus isn't the problem, THEY ARE! Given that they're the problem, they are highly unlikely to be the solution. Govt ministers are like rabbits in the headlights right now - they know they've screwed up but they don't know what to do next... so they keep telling us how dangerous the virus is in the hope it'll buy them time to work something out.

Good luck with that, chaps - I think you have a losing battle on your hands; there's only so long you can all keep crying wolf.