How can I concentrate on the problems of the world when I keep getting distracted. Though if I have one pure and superlative skill, it is the ease with which I can be distracted. Always been the same. Homework to do, fine, then the tv comes on. Homework… later. But today’s distraction was a worthy one. Lila. That tiny little bundle of fluffy pinkness came for a sleepover last night. Her daddy had to go away so Mummy and baby came to stay. So I was stuck in goo-goo-land. Somewhere I seem to be spending alarmingly increasing time currently.

But I did see two very interesting articles. My fave type. Food/health issues. And stupidity. They always go together. In the first, a bunch of Danes have done the inevitable study on alcohol. And found… that its not only good for you but if taken in moderate but not particularly sparing ‘doses’, reduces the likelihood of type II diabetes by over 50% in men and about 45% in women. That is such a staggeringly big statistic even I’m impressed. They did stress, however, that they were investigating diabetes ONLY, so the fact that half the study probably went into liver failure and the other half are now recovering alcoholics was not ‘relevant to the hypothesis in consideration’.

The other ‘study’ showed how men (in particular but not exclusively) suffer from depression due to excess of sugar. Funny, I get depressed if I don’t have the stuff in vast quantities, particularly when mixed with chocolate or even ice cream. But there ya go. Maybe I’m not as much of a man as I thought. Bit of fluidity coming into my life so I can empathise with the youth. But only where sweets are concerned.

I’d personally use Jeremy Corbyn as a guinea pig and force feed him vodka (Russian, cheap, workers’ label, obviously) and chocolate until he was sick. Then see whether the diabetes prevention from the alcohol neutralised the sugar overload of the chocolate. And then I’d shoot him either way. Just for being a nob. And for not being ‘honest’ to ‘the kids’. Wooing them with promises of a perfect, Garden of Eden future Britain. Saddled with crippling debt that they will be paying off their entire working lives. Nice man.

Happy Friday

A xxxx