27.04.2020 Day 46 of self isolation. "She made me do it!"

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Monday 27th 43-60F, heavy overcast and breezy. I have been keeping fit by more hedge cutting. Which may explain all my aches and pains. Using branch loppers for hours on end is hardly a natural act.

I walked to the marsh pond to see if there were any interesting birds. How does a total of two drakes [male] mallards sound? Not even a coot? Or a heron? I did see several Chiffchaffs at very close quarters in roadside hedges. It wasn't very warm today! My eyes were watering in the breeze.

Where do I start letting off today's surplus steam? I suppose I could complain about the weather on behalf of the farmers. Despite a very wet winter/early spring, record levels of drought are now reported. There has been about 1/15th of normal rainfall so far. The scars from winter flooding remain on many fields. Thought this hasn't hindered the annual carpet bombing campaign of pig's diarrhoea. 

Each morning we go outside to have our heads blown off by alien moon levels of ammonia. Lightly disguised as lemons. Laced with industrial levels of dirt cheap scent. That's not my Jinping cough. It's my living in the "fresh air " of the Danish countryside. 

Boris will not be enjoying his "second coming" resurrection. He is under heavy fire for not opening up Gravely Blighted to further commercial exploitation. His own MPs [who are mostly owned by big business for paying their <cough> "expenses"] are getting it in the neck from their real employers. It is impossible to tell whether their new-found concern for the inalienable freedoms of society isn't just a very ugly mask hiding the real "offshore" tax-free economy.

Pootin is complaining that Wacko Chumpo's subsidies to Greenland are an act of war. He claims he had first dibs on the Danish protectorate's valuable, natural resources. Because, he claims, rusting bits of His New Soviet Russia are slightly nearer.

The problem is, he has completely drained the economy to feed his insatiable private greed. Besides, there are simply far too many judges, police chiefs and prison warders to pay off. So there were no funds left to buy off Denmark.

Despite his having forced through multiple, undersea pipelines, nobody wants his "weaponized" gas and oil. It is far too easy for him to throw a "Wacko Chumpo" and simply close the taps whenever he needs to assert his corrupt authority. The world is dragging itself, achingly slowly, onto a new course of  climate control. So this is the very last thing he needs right now. If he can't continue to pay his "outgoings" to remain Stalin MkII, his life expectancy is proabably nil.  Expect further tantrums!

We had a smidgen of rain today! The Head Gardener had me doing the rain dance. So you can hold Her responsible. "She made me do it!"  We also had a little sunshine after lunch before it clouded over completely. I have no idea who's fault that was.

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