Another Day….

Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a nice, restful weekend. The days are getting longer, there’s occasional sighting of a bright yellow ball in the sky and wretched Plan B restrictions are gone, hurrah, huzzah! Now people can exercise their own choice, hopefully without harrassment. If they feel safer wearing a mask, go for it. If they don’t want to wear a mask, have at it. It’s nice being treated as an adult once again.

As for the Boris must go shenanigans, that soon melted away. One minute it was ‘Sue Gray is bringing her report in HOURS and the govt must respond AT ONCE’. As soon as Boris uttered the magical, ‘No, I won’t resign’, it was game over. The last thing the nation needs is to put some other lunatic in place to turn everything upside down and lead us into yet another lockdown. And no, I cannot see any circumstance in which I would ever vote for Boris, but 2 days away from restrictions being lifted, he’s going nowhere. Now we’re being told the report might be weeks, months, years, and will not mention the words lockdown or party, but apart from that it’ll be totally transparent and comprehensive. You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh.

Meanwhile in Clownworld, NZ has instituted 24-day isolation for anyone who so much as has contact with someone who is covid-positive. Why so hasty? Why not 7 months, or even better, 4 years. If they haven’t died by then, they’re probably negative. But do a lateral flow test just to be sure. Number of Omicron cases at the time: 84. I’ve tried to find the data for Omicron deaths worldwide and it’s like searching for gold, even on the WHO website. All I can find is that there are omicron-related deaths in the UK, which is a bit vague – did they die from Omicron, or from faling out of a tree and testing positive for Omicron? Your guess is as good as mine. The lower the number of deaths from any cause, the better, that’s what I say. The sooner hospitals start booking in patients en masse for long-ovedue treatment, the better.

Apropos which, another bold prediction- the NHS mandate will be cancelled. Two reasons- 1) It’s illegal to mandate treatment that is undergoing clinical trials, and in the UK at least, the vaccines are being used under emergency approval. Even in the USA where the FDA licensed the Pfizer vaccine, the Supreme Court overruled the mandate,

and 2) the Coronavirus Act which allows for the mandate automatically lapses on March 25th. The deadline for the second vaccine is April 1st. The NHS cannot mandate the vaccine for any new employee from March 26th onward so what’s the point? However, the law allowing the mandate was passed on 6th Jan this year but the government can look forward to spending the next few years in court, arguing about whether the law holds when the Act allowing it has lapsed. Not to mention 100,000 whistleblowers who have nothing to lose. Strap in boys and girls, it could get interesting.

Won’t it be nice to stop wrangling and fighting one another, to stop the finger-pointing and anxiety and anger? I’m sure you’re all as exhausted as I am. But this is AlaraApothecary: we cheer you up. The freebies going out to all who purchased from us in 2021 are going out from this week. Thank you very much for your custom. If you haven’t received yours by end of Feb, feel free to send us a heavily censorious, condemnatory email with the purchase details. Have a fabulous, healthy week and I leave you with some old-world eye candy. Who doesn’t like an arch or two, plus a dome here and there? Exactly, no one.

La Merced Church in Antigua – Guatemala
Chesma Church, St Petersburg
Royal Albert Hall, London
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Contrary? Moi?

Another glorious week in Clownworld. Quite frankly, it’s hard to choose with bit of ridunkulous revelation to satirise so I’m not even going to bother. It’s all unravelling so rapidly, it’s hard to keep up. How many ‘business meetings’ so far? Lost count. It was pretty sublime to see Labour joining the Tories so soon in the doghouse. As if they’re not two sides of the same dodgy £3 coin anyway.

The clear thread of course is that Boris Must Go. Quelle surprise. Time to find a scapegoat and throw him to the wolves, then business as usual. As if over 500 MPs right across the political spectrum did not vote for repeated lockdowns and draconian measures that were obviously useless, every single time. As if they did not all vote to re-enact the heinous Coronavirus Act, every single time. If Boris goes, they must all go, plus all their advisers, and all those who helped enfore the idiotic rules that helped to destroy families, businesses, the futures of young people, leaving 1 in 9 of the British public currently on the NHS waiting list. 1 in 9! Average age of the poor people who have unfortunately died of Covid in the last 2 years? 82 years.

So, no, let Boris stay and fix the mess he made. As I said to a friend this week, thank God for Boris! Stay with me…. He’s one of the main reasons why you’re not having to show ‘papers please’ to some Shaun-of-the-dead enforcer every time you step out to buy a pint of milk or go out to work. Because it was obvious to anyone who cared to see that Boris clearly didn’t believe any of the nonsense he spouted. That’s why all his appearances/press conferences were so tightly stage-managed. If anyone can find a single clip where Boris seemed to even remotely believe what he was saying, I’ll put it on this blog with profuse apologies. Imagine my total lack of surprise to find him larging it all the way through the lockdowns. Clearly our esteemed leaders did not believe that they were at risk of imminent demise from the ‘most dangerous virus of all time.’ His invaluable gift of utter fecklessness has saved us from becoming Australia or Austria, or God forfend, Canada or New Zealand. Zero covid, a truly brainless idea even by the subterranean standards we’re working with.

The best part? The clamour that they must all be sacked. Replace them with other idiots who are all marching to the beat of the same drum. Believe me, keeping their job is the least of their worries. Why? Because if you take a shot at the King, you’d better not miss. There is nothing we can do to these people that will come close to repaying them for the damage they’ve done worldwide but I can assure you, a reckoning is coming. Cold comfort, I know but there it is. So let Boris and Co stay and fix the mess they’ve made or it will be a case of ‘different boss, same old lies’.

Onwards and upwards, we look forward to better times. Spring will be here soon enough, other people across the world are living with lush greenery, jammy dodgers. Hope you like the pictures and remember, it’s a beautiful world filled with wonderful people. Love and peace, and have a fabulous week.

Rural Nigeria
Geyser, Iceland
Bluebell woods, Hertfordshire
The sacred Olumo Rock of the Yoruba people in Abeokuta, southwestern Nigeria
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