Beliefs & Doubts

First of all, maximum kudos to Her Majesty. I had cause to drive through Windsor yesterday (thank you so much Highways Agency for shutting down three M4 junctions….) and it got me thinking about power and how hanging on to it is not for dummies. The Queen is wilier than Wily.E.Coyote. Putting aside royalty’s penchant for bumping off inconvenient rivals to the throne, you can’t rely on plain murder and mayhem; after all, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown and all that. The sheer wizadry of the smokes and mirrors sleight of hand pulled off by the monarchy is a masterclass in pragmatic politics. Forget Megzit, put this 93-year old in charge of Brexit! Having the commonsense to ignore the rabid demands to throw the baby out with the bathwater, Elizabeth R realises that when you have a couple of rock stars at your disposal, it’s better to to keep them in the tent……. Because love them or hate them, Harry and Meghan alone in that entire family are blessed children, they’re sprinkled with star dust. It’s not fair but that’s life. So, the Queen apparently casts them off while leaving loopholes that you could drive a carriage through in case the family needs them to return. Respect! The best bit is witnessing the incoherent rage of H&M haters club. They know they’ve been stitched up, they just don’t know exactly how or why. If you think I’m wrong about the utter lack of desolation that the media etc would have us believe is engulfing the palaces, answer me this: if you have a nightmarish family member who wishes to leave you, brushing the dust of your family enclave from their shoes, never to return and this is what you also wish for, do you,

a) tell them “Begone, into the outer darkness, where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth”, or

b) pay off the £2.4 million it cost to renovate their home and let them keep that home, gratis, just in case they wish to come back and live 10 minutes away from you, the only ones in your family to do so.

I rest my case, m’lud. Point of all this, it made me think of perseverance. Yesterday was really hard, I think I just hit a wall. I’ve worked so hard at AlaraApothecary and I just seem to keep banging my head against a ceiling. So, there I was in church at the evening service and I remembered a cogent saying: ‘You can doubt your beliefs, you can believe your beliefs, but never believe your doubts’ It’s why I use my own products all the time. Just once in a while, I use something I haven’t used for a while and when the aroma fills the room, I think “This is soooo good!” It keeps me enthusiastic . Once more onto the fray I go. If I don’t put my products out there, I won’t find stockists. And even if people cannot stock them at present, each encounter is useful for learning what to do, or not do. Good luck in all our enterprises this week. Toodle pip.