Do you have a mobile phone? Just wondered. I used to have one. Then I replaced it with a mobile Lila-photo-storage-facility. Its much better. There’s no room for apps, text messages, phone numbers, just photos. Only of Lila. Except a few that sneak in of Harry Kane or even Donald Trump when someone says something funny about him when he fucks up. Ok, which is pretty much a daily event, but Lila really trumps all. Even trumps Trump. Though 49 photos a day really doesn’t satisfy totally. It gives me a little taste, but mainly of what I’m missing. So this morning, after over a week’s forced separation (holidays, work, life), I managed to squeeze a quick visit after tai chi but before tennis. I was in mid-activity mode and so was Lila. Every minute is an activity for Lila, even if that activity is just chewing her socks. So we got together. And all I can say is: denim jacket. Don’t like to be the love-struck, totally-obsessive grandparent thing but sometimes… just sometimes…

Lila knows nothing about the intricacies of Brexit. She has that in common with Theresa May, Boris, David Davis, Jean-Claude This and Michel That and everyone else involved in the divorce fiasco. Which is more akin to the lottery than to any logico-mathematical process. Think of a number, in billions, double it, add on the number of lovers enjoyed by the entire French parliamentary ministers over the last 4 years (also in billions), divide by the national debt of Lithuania and THAT’S HOW MUCH BRITAIN HAS TO PAY!!!! Then Theresa May offers them 75 quid, in cash, and negotiations start in earnest. And its all bollocks. Because much as I love numbers, as a general statement, I never trust them when spouted as a gospel. Particularly by politicians. First we had the Boris “350 million quid EVERY DAY to go into the NHS when we leave Europe” blatant lie. No-one ever mentioned the pay-back we get against that Euro-payment, but they wouldn’t, would they. Today I heard that ‘Britain has paid 200 billion more than any other nation over the last 40 years’. I’d question that one a bit too.

So if we aren’t sufficiently generous in our offer they won’t discuss trade. If we are generous everyone cries ‘Judas’ for still cow-towing to those Euro-bastards. Then there’s borders. Then there’s laws. What happens to EU citizens still living here, as they’ll be allowed to, if their vast array of European human rights are abused in some way (Europeans should have their human rights abused at every opportunity, nothing more than they deserve) and we’ve left the Euro legal thingy? Where would that poor person stand? How would it work? Oh my.

I’m still aching over the price of an iced-coffee in Tel Aviv and I’ve got all this to worry about.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx