Second day of tennis club, and the boys are exhausted. It's only about an hour and a half of tennis, and when I watched today they seem to spend quite a lot of that resting. I did make them cycle there and back.
Tomorrow they get it a bit easier, tennis club again, but grandpa is taking them in the car. I'm going on the jolly boys' outing1 that I might have mentioned earlier in the week. We're meeting at 1pm in Sandgate and going to Dymchurch and New Romney. It's fine for a Wednesday.
Clare has spoken to her work today, we might both be redundant at the same time. I am hoping that if we get the pay offs we expect Clare will pool with me, and we can buy a van and drive around having adventures. The kids are big enough to look after themselves for a while.
I think I'm still technically furloughed this month.
The politicians are becoming parodies of themselves, the videos of Trump are hilarious but frightening, and Ian Duncan Smith's confession2 that "er, brexit is actually going to cost a shit-tonne, who knew???" is amazing:
Whilst the UK wants to have a good trade relationship with the EU as a sovereign state, the EU has different ideas. They want our money and they want to stop us being a competitor. The Withdrawal Agreement (WA) we signed last year sadly helps them.
To avoid their own budget black hole, the EU gets £39billion as a “divorce payment” from us, reflecting our share of the current EU budget. But it gets worse. Buried in the fine print, unnoticed by many, is the fact we remain hooked into the EU’s loan book.
You can't be half in the EU & half out, the problem is the WA. It costs too much & it denies us true national independence. This WA giving the EU future control over us has to go. Now Britain faces a £160billion #EU loans bill AFTER #Brexit
Dangerous idiots everywhere.
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 4813552 | 158361 |
| Brazil | 2733677 | 94130 |
| Mexico | 434193 | 47472 |
| UK | 304695 | 46201 |
| India | 1804702 | 38161 |
| Italy | 248070 | 35154 |
| France | 190739 | 30272 |
| Spain | 341090 | 28463 |
| Peru | 428850 | 19614 |
| Iran | 309437 | 17190 |
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + Mexico + UK + India + Italy
Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe in the deep South. Married to Clare and father to two, I'm a full-stack web engineer, and I do js / Node, some ruby, python, php ect ect. I like pubbing, parkrun, eating, home-automation + other diy jiggery-pokery, history, tree stuff, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, and TIME TRAVEL.