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Less Than Optimal Start to the Morning

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After a good run on the email (months without errors) we are back to the old problem – can’t log in (can’t even get a page that allows me to attempt to log in) and a message telling me there is a problem (which I can see, without a message) and that I should try later.

I generally start by suspecting BT is useless. Then I go through a variety of dark suspicions , usually hinging on cyber attacks by malevolent foreign powers. Then I decide BT is useless. My evidence for this is that my other email account never seems to have the same problem. I just tried it. It is working perfectly.

I would use the alternative, but it just seems like a lot of trouble to change addresses. So far, I have avoided doing it. When I changed debit cards last year – just a simple renewal rather than a major change – it appeared to be a lot more complicated than previous changes. I have not become more complicated, but it seems the systems of various companies have become more complicated. One insisted I signed up to their app before I could change card details and TESCO failed to deliver my groceries because I had missed ticking a box when changing details.

It’s amazing how much we now rely on email and the internet. I’m sure that one day civilisation will end just because we can’t access the internet. Nobody uses cash these days and we would all have to turn to looting or starve.

However, I’m sure world governments will already have a plan in hand. After all, they can’t really concerned just about religious wars, oil and sending people into space with a non-functioning $23 million toilet, can they?

Well, that used to be what I thought. Now I’m not so sure.

In years to come will someone make a film of how a handful of billionaires turned world politics into a real life version of Risk: The Game of Global Domination?

Dr Strangelove Comes to Life

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I’ve just been reading an article on the best nine foods to stockpile if we want to survive WW3.

I’m not exactly sure that this is helpful as, with computers, AI, hybrid warfare and all the other modern horrors, we are probably going to have to faceup to  life without water and electricity. Burning the furniture and using the contents of the water butt are short term fixes but after that I’m not sure where we go.

Rice, it seems, will last a long time, but without water and fuel it’s going to be a bit crunchy. Powdered milk will also be pretty useless without water. I note that tea does not make the list. I’m not sure they have thought this through. Why do you need powdered milk when you have no tea to put it in?

Rufford Abbey, I believe

Honey is recommended too. Not for its nutritional qualities, just for its ability to last a long time. That is, I suspect, of more interest to archaeologists than nutritionists. But never fear, peanut butter is also on the list. It never goes off, according to the list, although after a few years the flavour may suffer. If you eat peanut butter for years I suspect your heart will give out long before the flavour becomes an issue.

I can’t remember most of the rest, though tinned food did feature heavily. Yes, “tinned food” seems to be a food item. I wonder if this journalist is known for their work on details. At least it means we can eat cold baked beans as we see the sun setting on civilisation.

Oliver Cromwell’s House

We laughed, once, at a friend who stocked up on pulses and turned their cellar into a nuclear bunker, we criticised the government for Protect and Survive, and we all secretly thought that Dr Strangelove was over the top, but who’s laughing now?

The good news is that the price of gold is rising again, as it always does in times of global fear, so the billionaires who run the world are unlikely to be feeling the pinch. In fact, with their bunkers and cupboards full of peanut butter, they may actually be doing quite well.

Russian Cannon – taken as a trophy in he Crimean War, now at Ely Cathedral

This, of course, brings me to my next suggestion, that Trump, Putin and all the rest should form teams of three and be set loose in some sort of reality TV programme in the jungle. They can fight it out without risking nuclear war or putting up the price of groceries.

Each nation is allowed to field its President/Prime Minister and two prominent politicians. My money is on the Ukraine team – Zelensky and the Klitschko brothers.

Random photos move on to March in various years.

Goose poem – Anderby Creek