Supergirl?

 Female super heroes are a great concept really and yes some of us are near enough indestructible not that I'd recommend just getting though your nine lives willy-nilly although this week has had own challenges with this mega price increase that stopped the fizz going in our pop apart from the ongoing problem of being short of truck drivers so stuff isn't making its way to shops and that..

This stuff of course does nothing to reduce the anxiety some of us battle with all the time with us managing it better at times compared to others especially when we get the "Bandits" stripping the supermarkets of anything the rumour mill says may be short. 

For me it's almost a re-run of how things were in the 1970's which I feel probably left some long standing issues like the tendency to get things just in case they go off market and to hang on to things perhaps without considering if we really wanted or needed them anymore.

FoMo or Fear Of Missing Out is a very common condition today that can override such ideas as devoting time to looking after ourselves rather than endless blogging and tweeting to others that doesn't really satisfy us but we effectively waste time on it.

It's why I try to spend time each day to be just outdoors switched off enjoying my surroundings without any electronic distractions.

I may not be quite Supergirl but I can try to be the best I can.

Shuffling the pack

 This week we are taking a brief look at polly ticks.

It was always on the cards although with Covid there wasn't a good time to to do it but the pack of cards has been reshuffled and thank goodness the hapless, muddled up Education Secretary has been removed not that whoever would of been in those shoes would not of have their work cut out  deal with Covid in schools and the Teaching Unions who tend to oppose anything.

He even got the Sixth Form of children in his own Constituency whose parents gave him a 35% majority protesting outside his constituency office about the computer predicted exam grades that made no sense!

Unlike some I don't feel Dominic Raab should of had to of gone as Foreign Secretary for being on his vacation when President Biden started the great pull out of Afghanistan and the ensuing mess.

He had a deputy and that persons job was to cover for him not that frankly by that point we could do much (and some the issues around Afghan Interpreters being still left their are more to do with the Home Offices inability to accept a simple proposition that people who helped the British Army were at grave risk from the likes of the Taliban and could of been got out earlier).

This is not being away at the start of a war or major offensive where continuity counts.

One aim of this reshuffle is to improve the representation of women in the cabinet which it has although I feel the example of Tony Blairs strongly female cabinet didn't show just being a woman made for a better person in post.

The other I suspect is to freshen thing up knowing were around two years away from a General Election.

It's a crazy world

Tis a busy life we leave.

For one thing I've been proper poorly for most of this week which I had mentioned in a few places meaning chunks had been put off simply because I did not have the energy to do them being very achy.

Between that there been following some adverse developments around the life of a close friend which are a concern in there of necessity extremely guarded nature.

I did see a bit of Wednesday's soccer which I gather was a bit disappointing with a goal draw after two huge wins while the grump was out to his club as it's reopened after being shut for you know what.

The Government Bill got through to spend additional money on post Covid catch up and tackling issues in the Care Service got through, something that had  that been known about since the last Labour Government but to which both main parties didn't deal with preferring to play silly games over.

It certainly isn't perfect but we need to start somewhere.

It's a very mad world the polly titicians live in obsessed by parliamentary terms, the elections and the need to been seen not to commit to anything that the other side can pull you up on but really not dealing with things sensibly by looking for consensus on long term plans so everybody involved to make long term plans.

Instead they either do nothing up keep undoing and changing things all the time making things worse.

You wonder why I gave up that life for being a child...

Back to school Friday

This week it must be said wasn't a great one when it comes to my health having been pretty poorly over a few days and we're only just getting back in the swing of things here.
It's also the time my head goes flying back to the past because when you're like me it's always thinking as if you are in that time so all the back to school promotions when life was rather more like this.

Yes that time you were dragged around the stationery shop for new geometry sets, pencil cases, felt tip pens for writing Carol luvs Simon in embarrassing places and notebooks although schools SHOULD supply exercise books or loose paper for folders.

You thought Minnie was bad, some of my exploits were legendary!

It was always fun to compare your mates pencil case and contents with everybody else's although while you could get a variety of pencil cases back in the day, the contents were generally unbranded and pretty boring.

These days branding gets everywhere as with this Dennis and Gnasher set, although Hello Kitty and Winnie The Pooh are super popular with it being on pencils and erasers (we used to call them Rubbers but American's use that for something very different so global brands don't use our English terms).

Then of course there was that most popular outing to the Uniform shop to try your schools official uniform on and get any alterations such as taking up hems and arm lengths arranged.

While some talk about making it cheaper personally I'd sooner up the quality so it really does last employing British workers rather than children in sweatshops in South-east Asia who work over 12 hours a  day in poor conditions even if it meant every parent was given a voucher to redeem part of the cost.

Something that is well made can easily be handed down if needed and looks smarter when worn which does matter.

Now to put mine on!