Politicians are a lower form of life
Writing here to those who will open my time capsule on 1st January 2121 can I put on record that in my opinion politicians are a lower form of life. I have said many times over recent years that conservative politicians simply do not understand there are REAL people at the end of their policies. labour (I deliberately start a new sentence using small case lettering for the labour party) fully understands that there are real people but believe they are only there to play politics with. As for liberal democrats I used to say that they did not believe in democracy and that of course is true but now they are simply are an irrelevance !
Given all that terrible things that are happening it saddens me that little people who are lower life forms play politics.
Me ? Do I have any political views ? Actually I do. I am an ULTRA EXTREEME FAR RIGHT SOCIALIST ! A socialist because I believe in and love people. Ultra extreme far right because god help anyone who gets in my way of loving and caring for people.
SMILE OF THE DAY: Everyone has their own story – A reason why they are the way they are. So don’t judge them if you don’t know their story.
That, of course, does not apply to politicians who mouth off about their story 25/8/366.
Yesterday I drafted a page for my planned Almanac Of Smiles. It am not comfortable with it. It needs to be brightened up a lot, illustrations would be good but Amazon is not good at formatting illustrations in books. I will experiment again today and when I get to the end of today’s diary page I will share what I put into the almanac.
I wrote a lot yesterday, 5,078 words bringing
the total to 300,855. Let me have a quick Google and try to find out how many
words other authors average in a day.
Stephen King wrote around 2,000 words a day
Ernest Hemmingway 500 words a day
Mark Twain 1,400 to 1,800 words a day
Arthur Conan Doyle 3,000 words a day
Graham Green 500 words a day
Barbra Cartland 8,000 words a day BUT she did
not write them, she dictated them to assistants who then typed them up
Agatha Christie ? She has buried the fact somewhere in her illogical plots and unbelievable characters.
I spent most of my day writing the chapter within BEHIND THE NOOSE about Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. I think it is a good chapter but it was very heavy going trying to explain the evil within these serial child killers. I did not finish the chapter, perhaps another two or three hundred words today will do that. I may then start writing about the husband and wife killers Fred and Rose West. It could be good to let everything flow from the way I was working yesterday but I may need to take a break.
My 4am moment today told me exactly how to
proceed through the fog with the point I am at in THE SECRET DIARY OF AN OLD
MAN AGED THIRTEEN AND THREE QUARTERS.
It is snowing outside, not heavy but it is snowing. Snow is rare in the part of England where I live. I have to go out to take Doggie Jake to the vet and to post this week’s SMILE envelopes.
Yesterday there were another 15,845 cases of china virus and another 373 deaths. Locally another 60 cases and 3 deaths. As I lay my head down to sleep last night and, as I do every night, spend a few moments sending love to the real people behind the numbers I wondered how I would feel if I caught the virus.
I have had my first vaccination but will it
work ? If I became ill and went into hospital would I be able to remain
positive ? Could I fight ? I wondered for some time how those who are
represented each day in the figures feel ?
It is impossible to imagine but it is something I will again contemplate
as I spend time tonight.
ON THIS DAY:
8th February 1950: In the Cold War
The Stasi, secret police of East Germany is established.
8th February 1974: After
eighty-four days in space the crew of Skylab Four return to earth.
Wikipedia you know what a fan I am of your
platform so why is it every day there is never anyone in your list of notable
births I have ever heard of ! ? !
8th February 1960: Giles Gilbert
Scott, born 1880, designer of the red telephone box died.
8th February 1990: Singer Del
Shannon, born 1934, died.
8th February 1998: Enoch Powell, born 1912, famous for his rivers of blood speech died.
So now let me share yesterday’s DRAFT for my Almanac Of Smiles:
MONDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2020 – Day 38 – 2020 An Almanac Of SMILES
Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening – GOOD whatever time of the day you have opened this page in our ALMANAC OF SMILES.
So time
for SMILE OF THE DAY:
You are never too old to set a new goal and never too old to dream a new dream.
Old ? You are never too young to set a new goal and never too young to dream a new dream
Never forget every day to SMILE AT THE WORLD AND THE WORLD WILL SMILE BACK AT YOU.
What was
the world doing ON THIS DAY in history ?
7th
February 457: Leon I The Thracian became
emperor of the Byzantine Empire
7th
February 1301: Edward of Caernarvon,
later to become Edward II of England, becomes the first English Prince of
Sales.
7th
February 1497: In Florence supporters of Girolomo Salvonarola burn cosmetics
and books in a Bonfire Of The Vanities
7th
February 1783: During The American Revolutionary War French and Spanish forces
lift the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
7th
February 1863: HMS Orpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland New Zealand killing
189 people on board.
7th
February 1900: A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to Bubonic
Plague, the first plague victim in USA.
7th
February 1940: The second full-length animated Walt Disney film Pinocchio
premiers.
7th
February 1951: In the Korean War more than seven hundred suspected communist
sympathisers are massacred by South Korean forces.
7th
February 1962: The USA bans all Cuban imports and exports.
7th
February 1990: The Soviet Union is dissolved.
7th
February 1991: The IRA launched a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street.
7th February 2014: Scientists announce that the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk date back more than 800,000 years.
TOP OF
THE POPS UK
Chart Top Ten for 7th February 1956
1.
Sixteen
Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford
2.
The
Ballad Of Davy Crockett by Bill Hayes
3.
Love
Is The tender Trap by Frank Sinatra
4.
Love
And Marriage by Frank Sinatra
5.
The
Ballad Of Davy Crocket by Tennessee Ernie Ford
6.
Rock-A-Beatin’
Boogie by Bill Haley And His Comets
7.
Love
Is A Many Splendored Thing by The Four Aces
8.
Rock
Island Line by Lonnie Donegan
9.
Pickin’
A Chicken by Eve Boswell
10.
Robin
Hood by Gary Miller
Time for you to pop over to YouTube and check these tracks out. Enjoy the music and let it make you SMILE.
TIME
FOR A BIT OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Quiz questions taken from Who Needs A Pub To
Have A Quiz. How clever are you today ?
1.
Which subjects are taught within The Three R’s ?
2.
Which city is known as The Windy City ?
- Which crime took place at
Bridego Bridge south of Milton Keynes ?
4.
How many bones
are there in the human body ?
5. What every day DIY product did John Joseph Rawlings invent ?
You will of course find all the answers in the font of all knowledge Wikipedia !
BOOK OF THE WEEK Quantum Mechanics A Time Travel Trilogy. Published on 4th March 2017 If you elect to spend 99p on the e-book I would say thank you for choosing to read my story. But having friends read these fifteen or so thousand words is not why I have written them. There is something quite different I hope you will be inspired to do. Read the three little stories by all means but that is not what this trilogy is about. I want you to take part in your own exploration of time and space. Use my three simple adventures to start your own. Max Robinson - author
WIKI MOMENT Today you are invited to take two items from ON THIS DAY and add to your knowledge who was Leo I The Thracian and what in 457 was the Byzantine Empire. When you have discovered that have a bit of fun and learn who Girolamo Savonarola was.
Remember it is better to know a little about a lot of things than to know a lot about just one thing. SMILE
HONOUR AND RESPECT One year ago today, Sunday 7th February 2021, 373 people in the UK lost their lives to covid-19 or if you prefer corona virus. It is time now in our Almanac of Smiled to remember them, to remember those who lost a loved one and today will be feeling more sadness on this first anniversary. Remember, honour and respect all those who cared for them in hospital. Numbers are empty figures behind which there are real people. Take a few moments right now to honour and respect their memory.
So there you go. Speak again tomorrow.
Dave
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