How to ensure there are no joggers in the park when you go for a walk?

Go when it's raining.

I've just done my usual 5 km fast walk through the nearby park and I didn't have to shy away from any jogger wheezing past me, panting his or her possibly virus-laden breath in my direction. It was bliss.

Not my photos, but definitely photos of 'my' park.

How much?? (Part 2)

Sometimes, I hate being right.

Last Tuesday, I had to buy some paper for the printer. The local supermarket sold a ream (500 sheets) for EUR 4.99. As I was also doing some food shopping at the time, I only bought one ream.

"I must stock up on paper, " I thought. "The paper industry uses up a lot of power and producing paper will probably become very costly."

Three days later, I went back to the supermarket to buy more paper. The price had risen to EUR 5.99. In just three days.

How I hate being right.

The state of UK politics today

As a teenager and young adult in the UK, I used to have some grudging respect for the politicians I saw in the news and read about in the papers.

Fortunately, I now live abroad and can sit here, open mouthed, as I read about the latest fiascos.

And to think that, in the past, the UK used to laugh at Italy and how often the prime ministers changed there.

The UK has now become the laughing stock of the world. I've never seen such an incompetent bunch of people before. They put me in mind of a kindergarten - pig-ignorant* and squabbling.

(*After all, if you're in kindergarten, you've not been educated yet.)