07.45 of the second day of the writing that is 23.04.2008. I am not up early by choice having needed to rise and then knew I would not sleep again. The morning has a damp grey English weather feel although the promise is of brighter and mildness. Yesterday's quick overview of civilizations before AD which included aspects of art working was only the agenda for further study through the internet and through my books and I must set myself questions in order to intensify and focus the research, the thinking and the writing.
First I will continue with the general history of the last 2000 years and those issues which are interest to me. Because of a Catholic Christian upbringing I grew up with a particular historical viewpoint which excluded everything before AD, including its mythology, and which then romped through everything from the death of Christ according to the Oxford University General Certificate of Education Examination Board read out by a priest from a small note book of key events and dates until he was replaced by the educated and cultured Jesuit with his missionary understanding of history from Victorian England through to the early 1950's. I therefore knew of the New Testament Life of Christ which was followed by the fall of Jerusalem in 70 and the scattering of Jewish people across Europe and Asia. Roman History concentrated on Augustus, Trajan and Constantine leading to Christianity taking hold on the Empire and then the sacking of Rome and its fall with the last Emperor 476. In Britain it was a period with Claudius after Caesar, and the abandonment by the legions around 410, leaving the legacy of heated buildings with baths, of roads, of the Wall and forts, of trade, inter marriage and settlement, of language and law, of arts and some technology. In China the Han dynasty came to and end around 200 and then much of Europe and Asia commenced to fall to the barbarian with invasions into China, with the Hun invading much of Persia and India
It was between 500 and 1000 AD that with the conversion of Ireland to Catholicism, that the Celtic Civilization was the most pronounced in what is now described as the golden age of art and literature, The first King of Scotland was crowned in 843 and first Prince of Wales led to creation of Welsh Law. Meanwhile in China with the Tang Dynasty the Empire spread to Japan, Korea, Tibet and Indo China, and there was the invention of gun powder, the water mill and the wheelbarrow. In terms of legacies to this day the fifth and sixth centuries were those of Mahomet (570-632) followed by the Moslem invasions of Spain Portugal, India, Persia and the Byzantine world. The Lombard's occupied Italy. The Vikings commenced their pillaging raids as did the Magyars, and there was the decline of the Mayas in Mexico, The Nazca culture in Peru was followed by the Paracas and the Tiahuranaco. Roman civilization along with Egyptian and Greek became forgotten history.
There is much talk about what is British and English these days in terms of political and cultural l identity as I am sure in 500 to 1000 years there will also be talk about what is being a North American other than as a simplistic and nonsensical allegiance to a Flag. which developed from battlefield colours, and which remains in reality a commitment to die if called upon to further national interests beyond the homeland or to defend it from invasion. Between 1000 and 1500 the effect of the successful Norman Invasion of England did mark the period when there was an attempt to establish a unity over the whole of British Islands commencing with Henry II taking Ireland 1171 1172, Edward I taking Wales 1282 and the Scots defeating Edward II at Bannockburn 1314. However in terms of 6000 years of civilization this was shortlived.
The main cultural developments were in Western Europe with the Renaissance and the creation of the printing press, and which led to exploration of the unknown planet with Columbus discovering the West Indies and Vasco de Gama finding the sea route to India. This was also the era in which Islam continued to attempt to exert itself as a political as well as religious force and where as a consequence of the Crusades, Constantinople was sacked by the fourth and Byzantium came to an end in the 1450's. There was a brief interruption in the battles between Christian and Islamic force as Genghis Khan created his havoc 1215-1220 and when he also invaded invade Persia. 100 years later Ottoman Turkish power emerged 1330. It was also the period when the Jews were not only scattered throughout Europe but viciously persecuted by Christianity with expulsion from England in 1290 and with the beginnings of the Inquisition and creation of the first ghettos in 1500 leading to some 450 years later the Nazi solution. For the Jewish state of Israel to be defensive about its future today is the most rational and understandable of positions in all history. China also had to cope with Genghis Kahn but the period is more noted for the conquering of China by Kublai Khan who became Emperor in 1260, and for the recorded travels of Marco Polo, the establishment of the Ming dynasty and the creation of the first Encyclopaedia. In central and South America there was the rise of the Aztecs and the Incas around 1300.
Such is the combination of arrogance and justifiable insecurity of the English ruling elite over the wish of the Celtic people to manage their own affairs (and one suspects to become free of the German House of Hanover) that it is sometimes forgotten that out of the 6000 years of civilization Westminster only controlled Eire from the 1801 Act of Union to 1921 with Wales from 1538 to devolution in the latter part of the twentieth century and which is still evolving, and in Scotland with the Act of Union 1707 until the recent ascendancy of a minority Independence party in the devolved Scottish Parliament in the most recent election. It is time that there was acceptance that Britishness and Englishness is only meaningful in terns of a willingness to die in defence of the British Monarchy, the Church of England and the British Parliament.
Elsewhere the Mexican Aztec civilization was crushed first by the Spanish, then by Napoleon III until becoming a Republic under Diaz 1867-1910. One suspects that it is only the insecurity of the American British, American Irish and American Italians which prevents Mexico become a full State although if a black man becomes President, then an Hispanic President, (most likely Cuban, if the Mafia get back into Havana) is also possible this century. With the re-emergence of India and China as economic forces and the attempted re-emergence of Islam, it will be of interest how present and future generations of Europeans react. My forecast is that Communism will be regarded in China as only the temporary means, lasting 100 years in which to re-establish national identity and self confidence was re-established before winning the capitalist stakes for world domination. The only likely counterbalancing forces will a United states or Federation of Americas but which will involve an Hispanic speaking Presidento perhaps every eight years alternating with those of British, Irish, Italian, French and German ancestral origins each with authority of over economic and home defence.
I have less concern about the attempted re-emergence of an colonial Islamic civilization, following Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, as long as the activities of Iran and Pakistan can be contained until an alternative energy to oil can predominate, Although the post 1918 and 1945 artificial re-creations of Arabia and North Africa have led to the many of the present problems they also have prevented the emergence of one dominant country and force although there have been several attempts; the understandable obsession with control of Jerusalem and opposition to the state of Israel has also been an important factor and too many of the oil rich Kingdoms have squandered their wealth on personal aggrandisement and symbols rather than establishing one integrated production and financial system. I once had hopes for a Europe which would stretch from Russia to Greece Spain, Britain and Norway now that we appeared to have come to an of civil wars and bloody revolutions since the British of the 1650's, the French, the Russian, the Spanish, the two continental engulfing wars the creation and enlargement of NATO and the EEC, especially the destruction of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany and the ending of Russia as a military and economic empire. The lack of a common language or bilingualism has always been a major obstacle, the history of internal conflict and competitiveness the untreatable unwillingness to create a single political structure. However this situation is not beyond a solution but it will take the further economic development of a China led Asia and North American Americas. There is one nation which has the population, the resources and the cultural heritage to act as the negotiators, the coordinators and peacemakers. No this is not British and those of the Indian Subcontinent and oddly comes because of the mixture of being an ancient civilization and having been part of the British Empire and making English a second language, from absorbing the netter aspects of the British Civil Service and British Higher education system and from the spiritual activism of its main religion and of Ghandi. It is a religion and a way of life which believes in making the most of every day but from a perspective of more than one life and one community and from having a sense of order and self discipline. Of all the emerging economies it is the Indian where I have hopes for the development of new culture and new artistic creativity for the 21st and 22nd centuries. The most unlikely is African and the most unknown is that of Australian Oceanic.
22.45. Cold Feet by Moonlight is likely to become the title of to-days writing, writing which I attempted to begin several times during the day but my heart was not in it. The intention was to complete contemporaneous daily notes and then about this time continue to write on aspects of civilization and art from AD to 2000.
I have finished watching Ill met by Moonlight commenced before the second of the two parts of episode 2 of series seven of Waking the Dead which now stars the middle aged former Shoestring Trevor Eve and the brilliant Sue Johnson whose career I have enjoyed over three probably four decades. Ill met by Moonlight is the first of the Daily Mail War Films which I wanted to immediately watch, although as with all the others distributed so far, it has been experienced several times and has therefore lost the tension and the uncertainty. This Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, J Arthur Rank Pinewood Studios black and white film although about a special operation on Crete was in fact filmed in the Alps Maritime of France and Italy and the Cote d'Azur, and released in the UK in 1957 and the USA the following year. This is a boy's adventure film with Dirk Bogarde as the Greek speaking special forces officer sent to the Island to capture the German Commanding officer, played by Marius Goring. The story is uncomplicated and is based on an actual successful operation devised by the Cairo based Special Operations Executive and involved Major Ivan William Stanley Moss MC 1921-1965, who real life is much more interesting than the film. He was born in Japan with his mother a White Russian émigré who married an English businessman, He was a educated at Charterhouse, commissioned into the Coldstream Guards and was only 22 when posted to Crete. After the war he married Countess Zofia Roza Jadwiga Elizbieta Tarnowska, grand daughter of polish nobleman Stanislaw TarnowskI the historian and literary critic. They had three children one of whom died and separated in 1957. In addition to writing three popular books, he travelled extensively , including with the British Expeditionary Force to Antarctica, settling in Jamaica and dying when only 44.
22.30- .23.30 Listened to Sky radio
More than I can Say - Leo Sayer; Do that to me one more Time- Captain and Tennille (I have their Long Play record; Umbrella- Rihanna; Bleeding Love-Leona Lewis; I Try-Macy Gray; Chains, Tina Arena; Lost- Michael the Bulbe; Thinking of you -Sister Sledge What a Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong; Killing Me Softly- the Fugees; Right Here-SWV; Smooth Operator- Senor Coconut; In a Beautiful Place out in the Country-Boards of Canada
The other reason for the title is the decision to watch a DVD of the pilot and first three episodes of Cold Feet, the comedy drama first released in 1998. It is understandable that first reaction of critics to the series was mixed as one suspects the well acted portrayal of the lives of the sextet of three couples was too close for comfort for some. The engaging James Nesbit plays a contemporary bachelor used to having a succession of women in his bed and with no intention of changing the situation, especially as he witnesses the marital experience of his best friend from childhood, played by John Thomson, and who takes to parenting more than his wife (Fay Ripley) but then finds it difficult to see her as a sex partner. Nesbitt meets modern girl about town Helen Baxendale who bounces in an out of affairs, determined to maintain her independence and whose best friend (Kimberly Joseph) has become a husband controlled but rebelling stay at home mother, married to Robert Bathurst who is the most one dimensional of the six characters best described as the stereotyped competitive male shit. The reason why critics changed their mind and the series established an average audience of eight million is the authenticity of their predicaments which as someone of a different generation which I can only speculate touched the nerves of a generation ill equipped for marriage and parenthood by the demands of global capitalism and of values set by programmes such as Cold Feet, Sex in the City, Friends, and such like. I found it funny, moving and honest, hence adding the series to my list of things to experience again and write about before I die.
23.30 00.15 Change to AOL Radio and Mozart- Flute Concerto; ( I have on LP with the Clarinet) Miserere from Il Travatore-Verdi (It is over five years since going to the Opera); Sphor - a Concertante, Bizet - Offenbach Lizt- Mephisto Waltz; a Bach Cantata ( I have an LP of several).
00.00 A very different kind of programme was Waking the Dead which has a different level authenticity perhaps more appreciated by those who have studied criminology and psychology. While each double episode is self contained one underlying theme is physician heal thyself. This two parter reminded me of the psychiatrist in charge of large complex where he explained that his problem was that while most of the patients knew they had a problem or two, most of the staff did not, and some were sicker. I wager few predicted who the villain was in this instance and the only clue I give that it is not the member of the prison staff considered the most likely.
00.30 Change channels on Radio AOL. Celine Dion -All by myself; Something in the Way she moves- James Taylor; Sade Kiss of Life ( I have two LP's); Al Green-I am still in love ; Mariah Carey-Love Takes Time; Teddy Pendergrass, Close the Door
09.00-14.00 The day was bright and warm and it was tempting to abandon plans and go out for the day but I wanted to keep to my agenda. Later I did mange to sweep the small space between door and pavement and then wash the front doorway, as well as vacuuming and washing of the day room and kitchen floors.
I walked quickly to Smiths and then back, breaking into a sweat which required a rub down and change of top. Yesterday's/overnight prediction on the likely impact of the miscalculated abolition off the 10% tax band was borne out by some forty Labour Members insisting on remedial action within this financial year and the Chancellor of the Exchequer giving an assurance that he would meet their demands coupled with the report that his colleagues would be asked to drop their amendment until later in the Parliamentary Year when they would be given opportunity had not worked out a solution by then. Tomorrow's PMQ's will be interesting.
09.00-00.30 Toast with butter substitute, three coffees, one tea, one OJ, one glass of wine, A Spanish from near Madrid Palacio de Gavira 2004, Iced Water. Unfrozen Prawn salad two slices of nutty brown bread, sliced banana and light custard, sardines on four dry crackers, small quantity of peanuts with wine, two baked Bream with herbs and fresh lemon, fresh sliced and cubed pineapple, two slices of Edammer with salami. Several games of Hearts without winning won although one was interesting with my score and another at 52 and two other players with 26 thus showing the number of different hands played automatically by the computer that such pattern will emerge, but still a long way from the 3 : 1 ratio which would be fair. Started to play level to chess again but was check mate when I cannot claim being half awake.
First I will continue with the general history of the last 2000 years and those issues which are interest to me. Because of a Catholic Christian upbringing I grew up with a particular historical viewpoint which excluded everything before AD, including its mythology, and which then romped through everything from the death of Christ according to the Oxford University General Certificate of Education Examination Board read out by a priest from a small note book of key events and dates until he was replaced by the educated and cultured Jesuit with his missionary understanding of history from Victorian England through to the early 1950's. I therefore knew of the New Testament Life of Christ which was followed by the fall of Jerusalem in 70 and the scattering of Jewish people across Europe and Asia. Roman History concentrated on Augustus, Trajan and Constantine leading to Christianity taking hold on the Empire and then the sacking of Rome and its fall with the last Emperor 476. In Britain it was a period with Claudius after Caesar, and the abandonment by the legions around 410, leaving the legacy of heated buildings with baths, of roads, of the Wall and forts, of trade, inter marriage and settlement, of language and law, of arts and some technology. In China the Han dynasty came to and end around 200 and then much of Europe and Asia commenced to fall to the barbarian with invasions into China, with the Hun invading much of Persia and India
It was between 500 and 1000 AD that with the conversion of Ireland to Catholicism, that the Celtic Civilization was the most pronounced in what is now described as the golden age of art and literature, The first King of Scotland was crowned in 843 and first Prince of Wales led to creation of Welsh Law. Meanwhile in China with the Tang Dynasty the Empire spread to Japan, Korea, Tibet and Indo China, and there was the invention of gun powder, the water mill and the wheelbarrow. In terms of legacies to this day the fifth and sixth centuries were those of Mahomet (570-632) followed by the Moslem invasions of Spain Portugal, India, Persia and the Byzantine world. The Lombard's occupied Italy. The Vikings commenced their pillaging raids as did the Magyars, and there was the decline of the Mayas in Mexico, The Nazca culture in Peru was followed by the Paracas and the Tiahuranaco. Roman civilization along with Egyptian and Greek became forgotten history.
There is much talk about what is British and English these days in terms of political and cultural l identity as I am sure in 500 to 1000 years there will also be talk about what is being a North American other than as a simplistic and nonsensical allegiance to a Flag. which developed from battlefield colours, and which remains in reality a commitment to die if called upon to further national interests beyond the homeland or to defend it from invasion. Between 1000 and 1500 the effect of the successful Norman Invasion of England did mark the period when there was an attempt to establish a unity over the whole of British Islands commencing with Henry II taking Ireland 1171 1172, Edward I taking Wales 1282 and the Scots defeating Edward II at Bannockburn 1314. However in terms of 6000 years of civilization this was shortlived.
The main cultural developments were in Western Europe with the Renaissance and the creation of the printing press, and which led to exploration of the unknown planet with Columbus discovering the West Indies and Vasco de Gama finding the sea route to India. This was also the era in which Islam continued to attempt to exert itself as a political as well as religious force and where as a consequence of the Crusades, Constantinople was sacked by the fourth and Byzantium came to an end in the 1450's. There was a brief interruption in the battles between Christian and Islamic force as Genghis Khan created his havoc 1215-1220 and when he also invaded invade Persia. 100 years later Ottoman Turkish power emerged 1330. It was also the period when the Jews were not only scattered throughout Europe but viciously persecuted by Christianity with expulsion from England in 1290 and with the beginnings of the Inquisition and creation of the first ghettos in 1500 leading to some 450 years later the Nazi solution. For the Jewish state of Israel to be defensive about its future today is the most rational and understandable of positions in all history. China also had to cope with Genghis Kahn but the period is more noted for the conquering of China by Kublai Khan who became Emperor in 1260, and for the recorded travels of Marco Polo, the establishment of the Ming dynasty and the creation of the first Encyclopaedia. In central and South America there was the rise of the Aztecs and the Incas around 1300.
Such is the combination of arrogance and justifiable insecurity of the English ruling elite over the wish of the Celtic people to manage their own affairs (and one suspects to become free of the German House of Hanover) that it is sometimes forgotten that out of the 6000 years of civilization Westminster only controlled Eire from the 1801 Act of Union to 1921 with Wales from 1538 to devolution in the latter part of the twentieth century and which is still evolving, and in Scotland with the Act of Union 1707 until the recent ascendancy of a minority Independence party in the devolved Scottish Parliament in the most recent election. It is time that there was acceptance that Britishness and Englishness is only meaningful in terns of a willingness to die in defence of the British Monarchy, the Church of England and the British Parliament.
Elsewhere the Mexican Aztec civilization was crushed first by the Spanish, then by Napoleon III until becoming a Republic under Diaz 1867-1910. One suspects that it is only the insecurity of the American British, American Irish and American Italians which prevents Mexico become a full State although if a black man becomes President, then an Hispanic President, (most likely Cuban, if the Mafia get back into Havana) is also possible this century. With the re-emergence of India and China as economic forces and the attempted re-emergence of Islam, it will be of interest how present and future generations of Europeans react. My forecast is that Communism will be regarded in China as only the temporary means, lasting 100 years in which to re-establish national identity and self confidence was re-established before winning the capitalist stakes for world domination. The only likely counterbalancing forces will a United states or Federation of Americas but which will involve an Hispanic speaking Presidento perhaps every eight years alternating with those of British, Irish, Italian, French and German ancestral origins each with authority of over economic and home defence.
I have less concern about the attempted re-emergence of an colonial Islamic civilization, following Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, as long as the activities of Iran and Pakistan can be contained until an alternative energy to oil can predominate, Although the post 1918 and 1945 artificial re-creations of Arabia and North Africa have led to the many of the present problems they also have prevented the emergence of one dominant country and force although there have been several attempts; the understandable obsession with control of Jerusalem and opposition to the state of Israel has also been an important factor and too many of the oil rich Kingdoms have squandered their wealth on personal aggrandisement and symbols rather than establishing one integrated production and financial system. I once had hopes for a Europe which would stretch from Russia to Greece Spain, Britain and Norway now that we appeared to have come to an of civil wars and bloody revolutions since the British of the 1650's, the French, the Russian, the Spanish, the two continental engulfing wars the creation and enlargement of NATO and the EEC, especially the destruction of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany and the ending of Russia as a military and economic empire. The lack of a common language or bilingualism has always been a major obstacle, the history of internal conflict and competitiveness the untreatable unwillingness to create a single political structure. However this situation is not beyond a solution but it will take the further economic development of a China led Asia and North American Americas. There is one nation which has the population, the resources and the cultural heritage to act as the negotiators, the coordinators and peacemakers. No this is not British and those of the Indian Subcontinent and oddly comes because of the mixture of being an ancient civilization and having been part of the British Empire and making English a second language, from absorbing the netter aspects of the British Civil Service and British Higher education system and from the spiritual activism of its main religion and of Ghandi. It is a religion and a way of life which believes in making the most of every day but from a perspective of more than one life and one community and from having a sense of order and self discipline. Of all the emerging economies it is the Indian where I have hopes for the development of new culture and new artistic creativity for the 21st and 22nd centuries. The most unlikely is African and the most unknown is that of Australian Oceanic.
22.45. Cold Feet by Moonlight is likely to become the title of to-days writing, writing which I attempted to begin several times during the day but my heart was not in it. The intention was to complete contemporaneous daily notes and then about this time continue to write on aspects of civilization and art from AD to 2000.
I have finished watching Ill met by Moonlight commenced before the second of the two parts of episode 2 of series seven of Waking the Dead which now stars the middle aged former Shoestring Trevor Eve and the brilliant Sue Johnson whose career I have enjoyed over three probably four decades. Ill met by Moonlight is the first of the Daily Mail War Films which I wanted to immediately watch, although as with all the others distributed so far, it has been experienced several times and has therefore lost the tension and the uncertainty. This Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, J Arthur Rank Pinewood Studios black and white film although about a special operation on Crete was in fact filmed in the Alps Maritime of France and Italy and the Cote d'Azur, and released in the UK in 1957 and the USA the following year. This is a boy's adventure film with Dirk Bogarde as the Greek speaking special forces officer sent to the Island to capture the German Commanding officer, played by Marius Goring. The story is uncomplicated and is based on an actual successful operation devised by the Cairo based Special Operations Executive and involved Major Ivan William Stanley Moss MC 1921-1965, who real life is much more interesting than the film. He was born in Japan with his mother a White Russian émigré who married an English businessman, He was a educated at Charterhouse, commissioned into the Coldstream Guards and was only 22 when posted to Crete. After the war he married Countess Zofia Roza Jadwiga Elizbieta Tarnowska, grand daughter of polish nobleman Stanislaw TarnowskI the historian and literary critic. They had three children one of whom died and separated in 1957. In addition to writing three popular books, he travelled extensively , including with the British Expeditionary Force to Antarctica, settling in Jamaica and dying when only 44.
22.30- .23.30 Listened to Sky radio
More than I can Say - Leo Sayer; Do that to me one more Time- Captain and Tennille (I have their Long Play record; Umbrella- Rihanna; Bleeding Love-Leona Lewis; I Try-Macy Gray; Chains, Tina Arena; Lost- Michael the Bulbe; Thinking of you -Sister Sledge What a Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong; Killing Me Softly- the Fugees; Right Here-SWV; Smooth Operator- Senor Coconut; In a Beautiful Place out in the Country-Boards of Canada
The other reason for the title is the decision to watch a DVD of the pilot and first three episodes of Cold Feet, the comedy drama first released in 1998. It is understandable that first reaction of critics to the series was mixed as one suspects the well acted portrayal of the lives of the sextet of three couples was too close for comfort for some. The engaging James Nesbit plays a contemporary bachelor used to having a succession of women in his bed and with no intention of changing the situation, especially as he witnesses the marital experience of his best friend from childhood, played by John Thomson, and who takes to parenting more than his wife (Fay Ripley) but then finds it difficult to see her as a sex partner. Nesbitt meets modern girl about town Helen Baxendale who bounces in an out of affairs, determined to maintain her independence and whose best friend (Kimberly Joseph) has become a husband controlled but rebelling stay at home mother, married to Robert Bathurst who is the most one dimensional of the six characters best described as the stereotyped competitive male shit. The reason why critics changed their mind and the series established an average audience of eight million is the authenticity of their predicaments which as someone of a different generation which I can only speculate touched the nerves of a generation ill equipped for marriage and parenthood by the demands of global capitalism and of values set by programmes such as Cold Feet, Sex in the City, Friends, and such like. I found it funny, moving and honest, hence adding the series to my list of things to experience again and write about before I die.
23.30 00.15 Change to AOL Radio and Mozart- Flute Concerto; ( I have on LP with the Clarinet) Miserere from Il Travatore-Verdi (It is over five years since going to the Opera); Sphor - a Concertante, Bizet - Offenbach Lizt- Mephisto Waltz; a Bach Cantata ( I have an LP of several).
00.00 A very different kind of programme was Waking the Dead which has a different level authenticity perhaps more appreciated by those who have studied criminology and psychology. While each double episode is self contained one underlying theme is physician heal thyself. This two parter reminded me of the psychiatrist in charge of large complex where he explained that his problem was that while most of the patients knew they had a problem or two, most of the staff did not, and some were sicker. I wager few predicted who the villain was in this instance and the only clue I give that it is not the member of the prison staff considered the most likely.
00.30 Change channels on Radio AOL. Celine Dion -All by myself; Something in the Way she moves- James Taylor; Sade Kiss of Life ( I have two LP's); Al Green-I am still in love ; Mariah Carey-Love Takes Time; Teddy Pendergrass, Close the Door
09.00-14.00 The day was bright and warm and it was tempting to abandon plans and go out for the day but I wanted to keep to my agenda. Later I did mange to sweep the small space between door and pavement and then wash the front doorway, as well as vacuuming and washing of the day room and kitchen floors.
I walked quickly to Smiths and then back, breaking into a sweat which required a rub down and change of top. Yesterday's/overnight prediction on the likely impact of the miscalculated abolition off the 10% tax band was borne out by some forty Labour Members insisting on remedial action within this financial year and the Chancellor of the Exchequer giving an assurance that he would meet their demands coupled with the report that his colleagues would be asked to drop their amendment until later in the Parliamentary Year when they would be given opportunity had not worked out a solution by then. Tomorrow's PMQ's will be interesting.
09.00-00.30 Toast with butter substitute, three coffees, one tea, one OJ, one glass of wine, A Spanish from near Madrid Palacio de Gavira 2004, Iced Water. Unfrozen Prawn salad two slices of nutty brown bread, sliced banana and light custard, sardines on four dry crackers, small quantity of peanuts with wine, two baked Bream with herbs and fresh lemon, fresh sliced and cubed pineapple, two slices of Edammer with salami. Several games of Hearts without winning won although one was interesting with my score and another at 52 and two other players with 26 thus showing the number of different hands played automatically by the computer that such pattern will emerge, but still a long way from the 3 : 1 ratio which would be fair. Started to play level to chess again but was check mate when I cannot claim being half awake.
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