Sculpture at Ruffird – I will say no more…

I have answered comments. That has taken just over ten minutes. I am now sitting, looking at a screen, and wondering where all the inspiration goes. I wasn’t exactly full of it when I went to be and seven hours of broken sleep have not improved the situation. I have plenty to write about but it needs a spark of inspiration to get it going. I was going to add “just like the flames of the screwed up newspaper in the grate” and I stopped to wonder how many people reading this will have started a coal fire as a regular part of their home heating. It’s something you never see these days. A few people have wood burners, but the neatly made layers of paper, kindling and coal have passed into history, like cars with starting handles and, in fact, newspapers printed on paper.

That paragraph is the only survivor of my two attempts to write a post before taking Julia to wood turning. It’s turned to newspapers, and after turning to newspapers, I felt I had to mention Elon Musk’s AI for making pornography. Having mentioned that I felt necessary to move on to the concept that being opposed to child pornography is, in the eyes of some US politicians, an attack on freedom of speech.

Mallard drake shining in the sun – Idle Valley NR

However, that’s a bit serious for me, and people don’t come here for serious discussions on world news. If they did, they would be disappointed. So I junked it and took up the story again. This time I turned it to Elon Musk showing photos of Kier Starmer in a bikini. That’s the sort of bullying school yard response that shows exactly why we don’t need this sort of technology. Still a bit too serious. Plus it’s not a picture I want to store in my mind.

Then you have to allow for the fact that when I think of many US politicians, I think of pond slime and those formless things that squirm under stones in my nightmares. Unfortunately, under the Trump Administration “justice” has become weaponized (to use one of their favourite words) and is being used to shut down debate. (In the wind I hear a faint cry of Freedom of Speech for those who can afford it . . .)

Wren

Even though there are defences (for now) of truth and fair comment I can’t afford to be sued by pond slime and squirming things because I’ve lowered their reputation in the eyes of the public by associating them with US politicians.

Great White Egret