I wanted to write a bit about how my day was going, and then I got angry. It was a slow fuse because most of what I was angry about I'd been reading this morning.
And, yes, it's about political leaders, those in power and those in opposition, and how inept they are in a crisis.
Listening to our opposition leader, briefly before I turned him off to watch a rerun of McHale's Navy, it annoyed me that he had no answers to offer, only criticism.
Unfortunately, he's not alone in the world.
Political leaders tended to blame everyone else for problems of their own making, whether it was when they were once in power, which happens a lot, or once they're in opposition, conveniently forgetting they, too, hoped that by ignoring the problem, it might go away.
Or that the long-suffering public will have forgotten. That's why we have pugnacious journalists who remember for us.
The incompetence of the people who are supposedly in charge beggars belief.
Oh, God, I'm back on my soapbox.
Forgive me.
I'll shut up about it now.
I'm trying to imagine what it's like in the cold because it's the height of summer here. It's not helping my imagination, so let's try...
It's cold today, about 14 degrees Celsius, when it's usually 27 degrees Celsius. The sun is letting us down, and I suppose I should be grateful that we are not suffering from an ice age.
To be honest, I was seriously considering lighting the log fire. Instead, we have reverse cycle air-conditioning, which is probably, in the long run, cheaper.
Have you seen how much it costs to buy wood?
But…
That could have made it difficult to write.
Not to come up with inspiration, but literally write, because my office is colder than a chiller room. My beer in storage out here is colder than it is in the fridge. Well, that sounded better in my head than on paper, but you get what I mean.
So, instead of writing, I sat down and binge-watched Sweet Magnolias, a light-hearted series from Netflix, which is of the same vein as Chesapeake Shores, etc, and more the sort of program I'd expect from Hallmark.
It was good. It hooked me.
Three sets of lives intertwined in a large town in middle America perhaps. I heard Charleston mentioned so perhaps it was in South Carolina.
The good thing about it? Not one mention of political stupidity.
Just good old-fashioned heartache and trials and tribulations of trying to live your life, bumping up against the obstacles life throws up at you.
The town was called Serenity, so there's a pun in there somewhere.
Maybe I'll get some writing done tomorrow.
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