Away from the heat (and she's still there)

A point of view

Now well into October and weather still pretty comfortable in London (and still picking tomatoes) -spent some time with one of the people I walked with during 'London Villages' walk this Spring/Summer - as many people do Jim has moved 'right-wards' politically  and now although he continues to listen to voices of the left he has (by his own admission) changed.

Plot 202 supplies us

I'm not sure that this is either a good or a bad thing but in UK generally we are free-ish to choose and not necessarily hit too hard (in terms of our quality of life)  by a change of government .


 I'm getting regular nudges to my conscience from the Daily Stoic, today I was told that ...


 Seneca marvelled at the terrible things people do to stay alive--things much worse than death. We’ll betray friends, he said, betray our most closely held beliefs, people will even sell out their own children and grandchildren--as the elderly often do in almost every election--just to keep things the way we like them. 

Now this does seem often to be the case  and renewed interest in Climate Change  (both in the News and with a new Nobel Economics prize winner) should (perhaps) prompt us to take a longer view as our individual lives are most definitely finite.

And still there..

Well I did wonder if Theresa would survive the Tory Party Conference and in fact she's done more than just held on, showing some humour and grit  but the point will come (say most commentators) that she will be victim to those who feel a change in leadership will mean the party continues to hold power - I'll revisit her stock next week.