Wish I'd Said It

That's it. Emily Thornberry (who is a Labour Party high-up) has nailed the Trump experience- and the rest of us can stop racking our brains for the perfect turn of phrase. Trump, she said, in a TV interview- has hit the planet like " an asteroid of awfulness"- a formula which perfectly melds the momentous with the bathetic.


 

Getting Out And About (At Last)

Due to one illness and another- not all of them my own- I've been stuck at home for weeks- and a trip down to Paddock Wood this morning, to the Post Office and a charity shop- was the first time I've left the premises this year.