Povey Prattle

A mother wrench feeding her young .   (Picture via my Phoenix AZ friend Alison P.G.)

1940's LEND A HAND ON THE LAND   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUG 15th 2019 LEND A HAND TO ZION'S BELLY Canine Therapy at New College, Sarasota, FL - a welcome break at the Resident Assistants' training week. Zion hated this! 😍 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- We double dipped.   11:30 - 12:30 at New College 4:00 - 5:00 at ALSOYouth

It's so horribly hot and humid here. So much so when I take Zion on our early morning walk I place an egg on my hat. By the time I get home I have a soft boiled egg all ready for breakfast.

Catherine and William Gladstone I think of Gladstone. Once he turned to his wife, after he had received an honorary degree describing him as a very great man, and he asked his wife, “I wonder how many great men there are?” And she replied, “There’s one less than you think there are”.

BEGONE FILTH! I've had my Kia Forte automobile for about twenty two months, but if cleanliness is next to godliness it has become a downright pagan. We've been to the full service car was a couple of times, and through the 7-11 $7 machine a few times, but due to my laziness, negligence or indifference, it was a mess, with dog drool over the back seat windows and about 3" of dog hair covering the floor. My good friend Rick P. recommended a "come to your home" car detailing business which I used  yesterday.  Oh my, it was worth every penny. The "mark" on the hood is a reflection of a ceiling fan in my neighbour's car port Inside, sans floor mats which are still drying in this humid air. Sometimes when I have cleaned my bathroom I think that I'll never use it again, 'cause it will get dirty again. In a like vein I am reluctant to drive my car.  I'd rather simply admire it so that it will not get dirty!

Growing up at aged 75 years involves re-examining and often dis-avowing the myths of national greatness with which you were fed in school viz  Nationalism, Racism, Militarism, Imperialism,  Expansionism,  Cultural superiority, Determined ignorance or proud disdain regarding other nations or peoples. Sadly President Trump and Prime Minister Johnson are too lazy or Anglo-Saxon nationalistic  to re-examine or disavow the myths (lies) which shaped their early education. They have a 1910 view of political life which (for some) sounds good, but which is utterly inadequate for our 2019 world. Johnson and Trump have a blinkered and myopic view of the politics, culture and economics of the 21st Century, Their policies  could well destroy the "economic house of cards" which have sustained the democratic world since the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944.

"Here's a health unto His Majesty, With a fa la la la la la la, Confusion to his enemies, With a fa la la la la la la. And he who would not drink his health, We wish him neither * wit nor wealth, Nor yet a rope to hang himself. With a fal lal la la la la la la la la, With a fal lal la la la la la." The word  *  "wit"  means intelligence as in "she has her wits about her" Listen to it here:  https://youtu.be/Nn--GfLaKRk ------------------------------------------------------- This was one of  the  English Patriotic Songs  I learned  in what Americans call "grade school". I/we were never told the context.  In truth it was a Royalist song used either at the time of the English Civil Wars, (Parliament v Charles I)  and/or at  the restoration of the Monarchy under Charles II. It's a bit of propaganda:   The Royalists so despised the Parliamentarian/ Calvinist/ anti-Monarchist patriots,  that they deemed the latter un