29.07.2020 Dugh!

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Wednesday 29th 57F, bright start, quickly overcast and becoming windy. The wind is supposed to peak around lunchtime. 9m/s with gusts to 17m/s. Equivalent to 20mph base with 40mph gusts.

A walk up to the woods to practice poor, new camera technique. 300 images, few of which were worthy of a second glance. I was trying all sort of settings and this resulted in major errors of both exposure and focus. Must try harder. 😏

Later I was back up the ladder hacking prickly, boundary hedges down to ten feet high. It was windy for most of the day. I am going through yet another saga on walking boots. The Eccos are now on their last... er um legs. Finding a pair of boots in a wide fitting is proving quite a battle. Dozens of online reviews. Most of which stink of hard selling but no mention of broader toes. So I ordered some pretty boots in a 46. When they turned up they were far too tight on the toe. Haven't the manufacturers heard of online sales? It's the latest thing since people couldn't visit the compulsarily closed shops for a fitting in person! Why didn't the manufacturers say these boots were only for people who were born toe-less?

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I'd like to nominate the anti-mask brigade in the USA for a [shortened] Lifetime Darwin Award. We must all thank them for their diligent efforts to eradicate the "educationally challenged" from the local gene pool. 

I'm calling the movement "Trickle Down." The first, known example of Chump [ever] sharing anything. [Except blatant lies of course.] In this case drizzling an extreme lack of the smarts down to "his people." 

What malevolent generosity! I'm all for mutual dumbing down. As long as they only hurt themselves. God's Own Country? Is that the one built on genocide of the native peoples, land theft, mass superstition, institutionalised racism, inbuilt system corruption and centuries of vile slavery for personal profit? I think I'd have chosen a [much] better god. Wouldn't you? But, hey, what The Hell?

Do you want to hear a topical joke in very poor taste? Republicans sociopaths are worried that giving away taxpayer's money, to support the forcibly unemployed, will undermine the US, slave wage economy. Meanwhile every billionaire crook is lining up to fleece the Jinping support funds. But hey, [again] that's okay in the land of opportunity. [For the 1%, tax-free, offshore mafia.] The rest can go hungry.

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