What a week! Having spent the week being a nutter-magnet as usual, TGIF! The wretched full moon didn’t help, and God only knows what effect a blood moon has. Actually, I am yet to see any sign of images of this so-called red moon. All the ones I’ve seen just show ye olde regular moon; must have missed it. If you don’t believe that people are crazier around the time of a full moon, you obviously don’t work in any aspect of healthcare…. only problem is, I think I’m affected also. Uh oh 🙂 I’ve posted a pic of Van Gogh’s ‘Night Sky’ instead, because I love it.

Nicest part of the week was the drive to the West Country from London, bowling down the M4 with my boys Elvis & Michael for company : Costello & Jackson, not Presley & Bublé, with some Kaiser Chiefs thrown in at max volume. (BTW, I went to a KC concert a couple of weeks ago – they were amazing! The energy in the crowd was incredible; it was like sticking your finger in a socket, without the pesky death by electrocution element. I didn’t realise how much I’ve missed going to gigs, and live music in general. I highly recommend catching them live if you can. Their music really suits being played at 200Db). I saw a crazy bird riding the wind near Reading, a condor, albatross, velociraptor…summat. It was huge! As it swooped down, I actually instinctively ducked in the car. Scary stuff. It reminded me of possibly the worst piece of advice I’ve ever heard: If a roaring lion is bounding towards you, stand still, and look it straight in the eyes. I should coco. It may be sound advice biologically but every cell in your body will scream RUN! RUN!! RUN!!! As Exhibit A, I bring you the picture of a bear at Woburn Park which attacked one of the cars:

Yep, stop and stare it straight in the eyes…. maniacs! It reminds me of the time my niece visited Lagos for the first time, aged around 6 or so. We went to Lekki Beach which is on the Atlantic Ocean. Her older cousins were freaking out at the violence of the water, but she was desperate to get in. I vetoed it, and as an afterthought I asked her, “Can you swim? ” She gave the priceless reply, ” I’m almost pretty sure I can” I looked at the waves that were as tall as houses and told her that we should probably wait until she was absolutely sure she could swim. Good times.

The wind was so fierce, the floors around Hammersmith were covered in fallen leaves. It looked like autumn. Goddamn climate change ‘scientists’. The only people God hates more than politicians is climate change scientists. (Please don’t write in. Any fule kno that God hates politicians. Yes, all of them. I checked 🙂 ) As soon as it stayed hot for more than four weeks, I knew that these dimwits and charlatans would start proclaiming it as a sign of global warming. After 7 months of rain and snow and ice, just imagine, the Northern Hemisphere got warmer, same as all the previous years. The minute they published their ridiculous non- peer reviewed ‘research’, what happened next? Yep, the temperature plummeted by 10ºC, and it’s been raining ever since. You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh. They should have their own motto, “Après moi, le déluge“,in its most literal sense. If they ever predict a drought, you’d better go out and buy a boat.

In other even more ludicrous news, the government is clamping down on ‘fake news’ on the internet. Apparently, we are all so stupid that we can’t apply cognitive reasoning to what we read and hear. If it’s on Facebook, we take it as gospel. But, quis custodiet ipsos custodes? For your delectation, I bring you these previous examples from the would-be arbiters of what is true and what is false : ‘I did not have sex with that woman’; ‘Brexit is Brexit’; in paraphrase, ‘The UK government has not been involved in extraordinary rendition’; ‘Saddam’s WMD could “be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them” ‘; in tribute to a Humpty Dumpty world— “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less”, I bring you “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” My personal favourite, ‘There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.’ The latter actually happens to be plausible. I just added it because it makes me smile. Good old Donald Rumsfeld; right-wing political nut, but at least he’s smarter than the average bear. That remark is a masterpiece of obfuscation. By the time most people have disentangled it, they’d have forgotten why they were taking him to task.  So by all means, let’s do away with freedom of speech, and democracy, and voting in particular, because the government is your friend and can be trusted to look out for your interests. Now, just swallow your soma and all will be well. I leave you with George Orwell : ‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.’ Coming soon to a party political broadcast near you. Have a terrific storm-free week.