Summer looks

We're in April and while much is ailing in the World, Iran, the bullying insulting ways of Donald J Trump and friends and oil shortages coming into our front rooms on our tv's and internet devices it is time to talk a bit about summer attire.

In the somewhat convoluted history of this blog at one time we did talk a bit around fashion, looks and the like between the travel, music and current affairs as we started to establish the more little world blog.

As time went on that side was more dominant when it came to looks so most posts around the topic ended up on there and we became more the what didn't fit into that world space.

Summer brings challenges such as staying cool but not risking showing what the world doesn't need be it windy or just park benches with wide wooden slats. 

This really for me works based a bit more on more girl fashion without being too girlie and fairly practical starting with a baby blue polo shirt that breathes, is stylish  and easy to wash.

Shorts tend to be better for things like walking around lanes, spending time in the parks and gardens and these Puma PUMA Unisex Gestrickte Shorts Teamgoal Shorts WMNS, aimed mainly at girls and women who play soccer just do the job.

Classics and short, they do have material designed to wick away moisture which does help.

You do need something between your feet and footwear in the summer as much we use cooling gels and sprays to keep our feet dry and not smelling and these cute ankle socks are very much a girls thing but not excessively so.

Add sandals or trainers and it just works.

The right space for me is...

 Well four weeks on the war with Iran isn't over with much wishful thinking, outright lies and no meaningful regime change, more barefaced lies from the Prime Minister although to be fair some of his predecessors were almost as bad with chronic indecisiveness in the mix and the likelihood of The Lebanon being flattened by Israel just like Gaza which still hasn't been sorted.

Attempted political pointing scoring on one site either though they keep trying to say it's supposed to be free from adult topics lest it take them out of a more innocent headspace. To me you either keep the politics and adult topics out or you quit kicking up a fuss when some raise them but letting others put over the "approved" take of one group while not saying a thing about about Moby's inaccurate depiction of the song Lola as transphobic although many users there are trans.

Sometimes I feel glad to have this other side that can just colour and play ignoring much of that.

Trapped and causing issues...

Warm week here which is much appreciated after all the damp and cold blowy spell he had not so long ago but not too hot to cause problems with shopping - melting ice creams anyone?

Things you may not realize until it's a bit too late include things that get caught where they shouldn't such as two p coins in washing machines that just seem to get in filter compartments usually from trouser pockets of the male of the species and aluminum foil that having been put typically on backing trays somehow end up covering the lower half of the fan in a fan assisted even that works by pumping the hot air in  and out rather than elements in it.

This resulted in these being undercooked and rescuing with a microwave oven to avoid food poisoning  while I investigated the reason for it with a torch and carefully removed said foil.

There's always something,eh?

Middle East War

Well a few weeks in, this Middle East War is far from over although it seemed to be short action at the start instigated by the United States and Israel.

It's seen the relationship between Prime Minister Starmer and President Trump being tested  with the latter issuing numerous petulant, often less than true statements, not helped by so many aircraft carriers and other vessels being in for repairs and not being deployed as UK bases are under threat. 

Unbelievable given noises around action had been about for awhile raising the ire of the Cypriot Consulate with good reason as having a base there place a threat from Iran and it is part of that islands security.

The deputy prime minister even said Cyprus is a NATO member which is just not true.

The conflict has spread from the U.S. and Israel attacking Iran with retaliatory action, Iranian proxies in the Lebanon attack Israel which has resulted in extensive bombing and troop occupying parts and other states in the Gulf being attack by Iran.

Shipping is being attacked by Iran too - chiefly oil - raising oil prices with significant impact on World Economies.

We still lack a clear case for the U.S. involvement with ever changing explanations.

It just seems very ill thought throw to me.

An Innocent Mindset

 

People like to have you believe you can't, it's all "sugarcandy mountain" and basically maturity equals not trusting a friggin' soul cos everybody turns on everybody really don't they?

I think that's a kind of mental contagion that is quite harmful even though it's sensible to ask yourselves a few questions about a situation or a piece of advice procured because it encourages the very mindset it is supposed to protect people from and for somethings an assumption of innocence makes far more sense.

What would happen if we changed our legal basis of one that guilt is assumed and people had to prove innocence?

A loss of freedom and a good many punished for not doing the same as someone else regardless of actual intentions and doesn't a persons intentions count for something like showing what they really were planning on doing.

Sometimes I just think people have got things just wrong.

An adventure!

 

Some days are just eventful in ways that you didn't anticipate when you woke up that morning and while as I write this there is a Bye-Election taking place that most will be holding their breath for today when it comes to the results other things have happened.

Wednesday I went out shopping only to find the bus didn't turn up and attempts via the bus company website to find out what had happened draw a blank as no update had been published.

After a while and with the mysterious appearance of "Plod" in his Police panda car vooming from the opposite direction turning into a cul-de-sac and looking at me for a good thirty odd seconds before going  back in the opposite direction.

Had there been another report to police suggesting I was in some sort of danger was my thought very much after the Christmas incident.

Anyway after twenty odd minutes of waiting I went home for a warm and a drink and went out at 10:15 to catch the 10:27 instead which didn't turn up.

On the other hand I did see the 11:15 coming from where I wished to go on time and knowing after some estate journeys it arrived in the direction I wanted at just before 12:00 pm.

I'd been waiting over three hours for the bus so just what had happened?

After another unplanned for change - pavement work by the bus stop in town of all places - I got to Iceland and discovered the actual problem.

There had been an accident on the road that runs along the bottom half of the town involving a car and a motorcycle  that resulted in person going to our local hospital and the road being closed for a large period of time with very limited traffic being allowed just at the morning rush hour that added to the delays.

I got done what I needed half expecting to get a bus just before two pm back and have something to eat in town as I was just putting some stuff away as I saw a bus coming that was around twenty minutes late - and it was the one I wanted.

That meant a rapid change and eventually I was back not aided by a driver who didn't know the route by 1:20pm and got my dinner sorted after putting things away.

Now that was an adventure!

Memory....

 

My diary is apparently in my Tote bag with bits of notes and that scrawled across daily entries but sometimes the more hot off the press stuff tends to be in either chat streams or on blogs written usually on the rebound of a series of emotions.

Sometimes as with Tuesday it was a point of having been pushed emotionally to the edge at the weekend I just turned around and said "there are limits" as the Grump tried to blame me for him being late to get ready to go out as he hadn't told me anything and he tend to talk to himself saying things like "I'll do this later" but that's not stuff you write into your memory as its not addressed to you.

And my short term memory is atrocious - borderline non-existent at times - with no retention relying on making notes but requires being asked to so you know it's important - and I'd run out paper writing down everything he says.

Thus on Thursday I discovered the Tiger Baguette  was unsliced and not put in the freezer cos with all that going on it had gone totally out of memory so just left out in the kitchen.

That's just how things get at times.