Phew

 The phone came up with a message that gave me something to think about just as I was leaving the house and as a result I walked down to the bus stop, waited for the bus, rode the bus all the way into town and only then realised I hadn't picked up the Meeting House keys on my way out.

I crossed the road, ran for a bus, just caught it, got home, picked up the keys and calculated it would be quicker if I did the second journey into town on my non-motorised scooter. I was right. The walk, the wait, the bus ride would have taken anyhing from a quarter to half an hour whereas on the scooter- going as fast as the state of the pavements would allow- it only took me ten minutes; and I reached the Meeting House with a quarter of an hour to spare before the Meeting for worship was due to begin.

Not bad for an old'un...

Unlikely

 Rainclouds keep swarming over the hills.There are intervals- and in one of them I did a bit of light gardening, including re-sowing grass seed where the pigeons had located it and eaten it all up. It's curious: they've found some of the seeded areas and not others. Ailz says pigeons- in fact birds in general-  need to consume their own body weight in food everyday. This seems unlikely, but then birds don't weigh very much...

I wrote a political post, then did something inadvertent that caused it to be wiped. I'll take this as sign that writing political posts is not something I should be doing. After all, I have no inside knowledge but only my motherwit- and once you've firmly established that politics is a dirty business it seems redundant to point at some particular piece of double dealing and go, "Lord, but that was dirty." Mistrust everything our leaders and their media mouthpieces say (and I mean everything)- and you can't go far wrong.

I started another post about the use of doubles by political leaders and other persons of significance but it didn't seem to be going anywhere so I stopped. Stalin is reputed to have used doubles, likewise Saddam Hussein and, currently,  Vladiimir Putin. Funny how all these people are or were "enemies" of the western powers. There are rumours that the chap who turns up in the role of president of the United States isn't always the full and indisputable Biden, but they're only rumours. The other day something funny happened to the Biden character's chin and there were those who said it was a literal mask that was literally slipping. Apparently they can make masks these days that are completely undectable- like the ones they used in Mission Impossible- the old TV show not the movie franchise. I don't know whether to credit this or not. Commonsense says "unlikely", but then we are living now with all sorts of technologies that transcend "commonsense"...