Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #2 dark 📷
Listening to Vessel by The Accidentals on Apple Music 🎶
Try to give it time, life will teach you how to live
You just have to live it for a while
Micro.blog October 2021 Photoblogging Challenge #1 touch (someday, maybe) 📷
One of the best lines in Kier Starmer’s speech at the Labour Party Conference yesterday.
“It’s easy to comfort yourself that your opponents are bad people. But I don’t think Boris Johnson is a bad man. I think he is a trivial man. I think he’s a showman with nothing left to show. I think he’s a trickster who has performed his one trick.”
Trying out Apple Music, listening to star-crossed from Kasey Musgraves. Somehow I managed to get a free 6-month trial, so I’ll probably cancel my Tidal subscription 🎶
This article from The New Statesman website is a sobering read for those of us lucky enough not to worry too much about the odd £20,
Whitehall’s own analysis finds the cut will have a “catastrophic” impact, warning “homelessness and poverty are likely to rise, and food banks usage will soar”. More than half a million people face being pulled below the poverty line, including 200,000 children, as a result of this change, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an anti-poverty organisation.
Finished reading: The Things You Find In Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett. Grab a free copy here 📚
Who’s a clever boy? 🐕
Many thank to Nicky, Doug and the rest of the DJ Dog Training Club team for your help getting us through.
Listening to Reprise by Moby whilst writing a proposal. 🎶
Abandoned agricultural machinery 📷
The new feeding station for the birds is open for business 🌱
Saturday ride
Listening to From Dreams to Dust by The Felice Brothers on Tidal. I first discovered this band when I was looking for music to play on my Monday Music Mix show on ITfM Radio back in the day. 🎶
What's Boris Johnson's reshuffle really all about?
“This is a mad way to run the country,” confessed a member of the government.
Whether prime ministers wield sharp knives or attack with blunt spoons, reshuffle days like this are indeed a strange mixture of bravado and farce.
Bravado when, earlier, one cabinet minister told me, “I think I’m OK,” as, ashen-faced, looking nauseous and clammy, they were en route to see the prime minister before promptly being sacked.
And farce when, as legend has it, on several occasions, would-be ministers end up jobless, because the post-it notes with their name on fell off the board. Forgotten, their career plunged to the floor too.
Read more on BBC News: What’s Boris Johnson’s reshuffle really all about?
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