Trump

It's a tough life being a sports presenter on a current affairs programme. One minute it's the war in Ukraine, and the next it's: 'Now over to Mike Williams with the sport'.

A slightly thinner month of content, partly due to preparation for leading an in-depth tour of the Barbican for London Historians, but principally and more importantly due to the arrival of Grandson No.2. The 8 month old now has competition, but we will have to allow time for the sub-one month old to show his paces.

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4th January. A weekend supplement promotes '24 easy ways to be healthier this year'. Another lifestyle piece suggests that if you are on a train and a child behind you repeatedly kicks the back of your seat, then you should not remonstrate but should meditate on your own childhood.

Enough. 

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I can only reproduce verbatim this hilarious message via LinkedIn from Checkatrade:

'Fancy getting more local work?'

LinkedIn offers me the chance to have my posts rewritten using AI. There is a promise of enhanced engagement. Inspection shows the deal to be £0 for a one month trial. Don't know how much after that. This might sound arrogant, but I think I will take my chances.

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I write this item on the eve of the US Presidential Election, and will not change it whatever the outcome. I do not always agree with Lionel Shriver's views, but she writes incisively.

I love the eccentrics of Kentish Town: as examples, two old boys on the pavement consulting a tattered A-Z (none of that phone rubbish), and then a woman outside a supermarket advising entrants that all will be well. I hope she is right.

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Some time taken up in the month with Profiling the Post Office, but there are items to offer:

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All publicity for this man is good publicity, and even better if you can play the victim card :

'You know why

I have nomination high?

Stormy Daniels'

With apologies to Etta James.

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Would you feel more confident in trusting one of the blue tick Twitterati because they have paid for their tick? Me neither.

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Beginning of the month. I am missing Trump. I am missing that there was always something to write about him. With the new incumbent, there is just not the same buzz in speculating on whether the President enjoyed a refreshing afternoon nap.

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The Waitrose Sprout Scandal, Part 2. December's Late Life Crisis tells the story,, but the summary is that Waitrose substituted a bag of sprouts with a single sprout in an online shop, and then charged £0.01p for the sprout. 

"Now Christopher and Patrick, show me the drawings you've done during carpet time.......thank you".

"Christopher, yours has some squiggly lines going up and down over the page...........................I see, it's spiders having a race......well, that is very good imagination".