This morning, when I saw how many posts I had written I was tempted to stop the blog and retire. I have, until I publish this one, a total of 3,333 finished WP posts in Quercus Community.  So soon after writing a 333 word blog this seems like a message from fate.

That message is probably “Stop being an idiot and obsessing about numbers” but you can never tell.

Julia has returned. I can tell an immediate difference as it now takes longer to select a menu. It’s cold, it’s been raining all day, we have a choice of pizza, pasties, quiche or vegetable stew. It can be accompanied by salad or potato wedges and beans or roasted veg. The clue is in the cold and wet – clearly we don’t want salad and gravy does not go with quiche or pizza. Already,  several combinations are not going to work. It’s quiche, pizza or pasties with wedges and beans, or it’s pasties with roast veg and gravy.

Young Nettles

Yesterday, the veg would already be sizzling in the pan. Today it took two attempts and nearly an hour before she finally decided. At this point I remember I have cauliflower and a bag of grated cheese, but decide not to mention it.

We’re also back to watching TV by committee. The Great British Sewing Bee is back for what looks like a lacklustre 10th Season. I didn’t watch it last night because I knew Julia would want to see it and I didn’t want to watch it twice, so we called it up on i-player. This was fortunate because it saved interminable discussions.

Oh, and they have called a General Election. I ought to mention that if I want this blog to be used in historical research by future PhD students. The morally dubious Conservatives look sure to get a drubbing from the  . . .

I’m not even sure how to describe Labour at the moment. They have the ball in hand and the line is in front of them. Will they cross the line to score, or will they fumble at the last minute?

I predict a landslide for the Labour Party, sweeping aside years of Tory misrule.

I predict a Tory resurrection, springing a last minute surprise on a Labour Party that is devoid or charisma and ideas.

I will edit that later. Just after the results are in . . .

At least these snouts are meant to be in a trough