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They brought it as a club on themselves. I have little sympathy I'm afraid.

 

I've just been reading through the beeb news site. It begs the question what if anything is actually going right in this Country. It seems everything is either a current disaster or a disaster waiting to happen. Who voted in this complete moronic idiot we have at the helm right now? I hope these people think Brexit was worth it after this chaos. And no it definitely isn't all down to the pandemic even if Boris and his mates would like to blame it. What exactly has gone right since he's been in?

 

Argyle got promoted ......and Corbyn's gone.

 

Six days of temperatures reaching a maximum of 90F plus (33C)....been checking the BBC and Met Office charts for this area ....and who do you believe....does one use an old bit of seaweed and the other pop a hand out the window.....they are so different.

We had a short shower about 6AM this morning....just about got the table on the patio wet.....that just brought us unfounded hope.

BBC are saying that come 11AM we will be having 60% plus chance of rain/sun/thunderstorms until late evening....with more tomorrow.

The Met Office say we will get 10/20% chance of thundery showers but only for a shortish period.

I was told there was a chance that after I broke my leg (an old football injury of course) I would be able to tell the weather by it.....what a load of codswallop that is.....maybe these multi million £ computers are no better.

 

My daughter's A level grades have arrived and are underwhelming. It's not her fault: she's a hard and organised worker and I'm certain the opportunity to revise and actually take the exams would have seen her gain a couple of grades over the tree subjects. Her teachers at all the schools she's attended have always been glowing about her and I'm sure they'd have carried that through to mark her up to those higher grades that were mentioned at our last parents' evening rather than down.

In general, she's had a rough schooling: in the first guinea-pig cohort to study for and take the prototype new style GCSE's and then suffered endless chopping and changing of teachers through her vital last 4 years at school as it tried to shore up drooping GCSE performance at the expense of A levels.

I'm not a fan of teacher assessments but under these unique circumstances they would have been much better than the crude algorithm that's been applied here. That prat Williamson, who was sacked by Theresa May for briefing stories likely to be favourable to himself, has decided to act the he-man and rule out doing what the Scots have done and follow that route. He's offered use of mock results obviously with little or no understanding of how they are conducted. My daughter's last Politics mock included the American Constitution module which they'd barely touched at the time, let alone completed and revised. One of her class mates who was predicted an A overall got a D in that module at that stage of study. What's the relevance of that now?

It's another example of the bravado and bluster that are all this awful government have to offer.

 

I do get the feeling that Mesut Ozil and Gareth Bale have only one thing in their minds.....and that is to keep shoveling in the money from their copper bottom lucrative unsinkable contracts....playing football for their present clubs hasn't remotely crossed their minds.

This is the problem with lucrative mega pay deals....it is nearly impossible to move on without taking a massive pay cut.....you have two choices.....either to move to another club and accept a lower financial deal....or stay ...even though you are out of favour ....and will end up doing nothing but sit in your sunlounger counting your money until your contract expires....Oh dear...it must be a hard decision for them....but of course someones got to do it.

Comments from them.

Ozil.....I'll decide when I leave.

Bale.....I'll sit out two years if I have to.

 

My eldest grandson has just finished lower sixth this summer....he wanted to do politics....but they couldn't find a teach to do it....so no politics.

His other subjects kept him busy for 50% of the school week....with continual chopping and changing of teachers (word used loosely).....so come lockdown... no schooling until the last month of the school year....when he went in only on Mondays for one lesson in the morning and one in the afternoon.....to be honest a total waste of a year....no exams...no teacher markings....no nothing....I expect we should be grateful that it was lower sixth not upper sixth.

This was so disappointing when you consider he didn't want to stay on for sixth form anyway....he wanted an apprenticeship in one of the big car garages.....BMW, VW,...Ford,...Audi,...Renault, Citroen...etc....his car knowledge is unbelievable.....and he is intelligent....but Uni doesn't interest him.....He felt that they were looking more for a tea boy come sandwich shop runner....so for lower sixth to be such a disaster was disappointing.

 

Weather up date....nearly noon....temperature climbing up to 84F.....so it is hot and full sun.....BBC Chart has now pushed thundery wet weather back to 1300 hrs......I assumed someones looked out the window or checked the seaweed.....or the little old tea lady....the one that comes around with the Tea Trolly with door stop bread and dripping.....has starting complaining about her bunion....and woke up those "technicians" who have adjusted their forecast accordingly.

 

Surprise, surprise....weather didn't change at 1300hrs.....BBC are now suggesting 1500 hrs.....we'll wait and see.

 

That's exactly what I was on about last night. Everything this bunch of idiots touch turns to a bag of ****. This is a generations future he is cocking up and if you saw him on the News this evening he patently doesn't give a monkeys except to say they are right and of course everyone else is wrong. My grandson is in the lower 6th this year. I am so glad he hasn't yet been caught up in this. Mind you there is still time. He has managed to get himself some work and has done quite well at it. It has paid him quite well for a 17 year old and he obviously likes the pay. He is now well into thinking about an apprenticeship rather than Uni. I think that would be a very wise move.

 

You just KNOW this lot of braggards watched what happened in Scotland and thought:

1 We can't do that because they did it first
2 We can't admit we were wrong because if we did they'd realise we get everything else wrong too
3 The public schools did OK so it doesn't matter anyway.

 

This isn't over by a long shot. Watch this space and see them squirm and then finally give in. The more I speak to people the more it seems Boris isn't so popular as he once was. The man is a Jonah and as a young lady said on the News this evening. "I am nearly at voting age so he will pay the price when the time comes".

 

After several days of chaos, they have now caved in. A level results in England will now be the higher of the school's prediction and the algorithm result.

That's daft but essential as some students have been offered university places based on improved algorithm grades, which can't be taken away from them now. Of course, other students have had university offers withdrawn because their teachers' assessments were reduced by the algorithm. They now have their higher grades back but not necessarily their offers, which have been given to other people! Are you still following me?

As someone said on the news this morning, in a quickly moving virus epidemic, it's inevitable that mistakes have been made as decisions were taken in haste. That does NOT apply to exam results though, they have had months to think this through and get it right.

 

As I said just above your post notdistant.........watch this space. This was inevitable and only a matter of time. They have to feck up some lives before they put something right though as it is par for their course. Did you notice however that this is yet another Government Minister under Boris who doesn't take responsibility for anything. The Minister of Education who is responsible for all things Education says it was not his fault it was somebody else even though this comes under the Education umbrella..

So far since Boris took charge nothing at all has gone right as far as I can see. If some people still think he is the man for the job then we are well and truly bolloxed. We need a Belarus type revolution I think before it's all too late.

 

The Health Minister Matt Hancockup has scrapped Public Health England.

That is another attempt to blame someone else of course: let's not forget that the Government ran a simulation of a pandemic a couple of years ago and that clearly identified that stocks of PPE were inadequate. What did the Government do about that? I dont need to say do I?

There have also been mutterings though about nanny institutions interfering in the food industry's inalienable right to flog us food packed with saturated fat, salt and sugar. Others may have forgotten Mad Cow brain burgers, but i haven't.

These mutterings are from the same people who want us to have American hormone beef and salmonella chicken as part of the Brexit bonus. Watch this space.

 

They are all at the pass the buck game now and the precedent was set by Boris himself allowing Cummings to stay in his circle when he got caught out travelling. Nothing to see here just move along is the new way to handle stuff. He will keep doing this for as long as necessary and it WILL be necessary many times given the track record. I listened to a Tory MP on the radio this morning who was actually saying that it was not good enough and if enough of them grow a pair then maybe Boris will be short lived in his position. He is however arrogant enough to just ignore them all. I'm sure a lot of his supporters are beginning to realise that being a cheeky chappy is simply not enough to run a Country in normal times. It is 100 times less so in a crisis situation.

 

He's alienated quite a few Conservative back benchers, who see him listening only to a cabal of special advisers rather than MPs.

There's a lot of dim-witted sloganizing going on on the TV but the actual delivery of competent government is non existent. Much like Johnson himself really.

 

As plym seems bent on giving us a run down on the weather I might as well add our's happening right now. The wind is blowing so hard that I am totally convinced my roof will be somewhere else come morning. Because I live next to a park which is surrounded by trees in full leaf and bloom, the noise from the wind outside is deafening even through the double glazing. It did a little throw it down with rain about half an hour ago. You would think we were living next to the sea rather than a park. The sound of water hitting the window was loud to say the least. I have just looked up the forecast on the weather channel. This is due to last until tomorrow evening. It's happening as predicted so far and it's going to be Armageddon out there. This is summer or so I'm told. Boris can't even get the weather right as of course I blame him for it. I've said this before, he's a Jonah and nothing will change until we get rid.

 

My daughter and her family have spent the last week in the Dartmouth area...so that doesn't sound too holidayish....moving up to the Barnstaple area on Saturday for another week....there's some good cycling tracks they like along the north coast (the Tarka Trail)....assuming they don't get blown into the sea.....while we're on about the weather yesterday (Thurs) was dry enough to cut the grass....including thousands of acorns falling off the giant oak trees adjacent to one part of my garden....you need to wear safety glasses when you hoover them up with a rotary.

 

We benefit from a view towards the Sound and Mount Edgecumbe, which is nice. However, your average south westerly hurls itself directly at us.

Our back fence is awaiting replacement from last winter's storms and my daughter, who has the bedroom with a view, feels as though she really is at sea at times.

Hopefully, some of the unwanted tourists back home.........