I missed a lot yesterday. Running round like a blue-arsed fly, I believe the expression to be. Though I’ve never seen a fly with blue arse myself, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist somewhere. Maybe its a regular, black-arsed fly that is moving so fast away from you that it is experiencing ‘blue-shift’, like planets and meteors do. Who knows? Who cares? Whatever it is, that was me.

So I missed the football. For which I’m eternally grateful. Watching Arsenal win the day after enduring Spurs loss is simply too much. So I watched the granddaughter instead. Much more interesting. Much more enlightening. Even though she was asleep.

But as I found the score, there was mass upset and emotion from the Spurs fans who happened to be in my kitchen at the time, free-loading on my scones, as they do, yet massive excitement from a Man United fan, happy to see anything that is bad for Manchester City. How shallow and weak and rather pathetic such an outpouring is. Wallowing in the upset and misfortune of your rivals. Wouldn’t catch Spurs fans doing that…

Then the son-in-law suddenly brightened. “That’ll keep Wenger there for another ten years!!!” he proclaimed. And I thought ‘yesssss’. Best news for Spurs fans ever. And as Alexis Sanchez hit the winner, they’ll pay him whatever he and his team of black-mailing, corrupt, live-in-another-world team of psychopathic ‘agents’ and other bottom-feeding, parasitic vermin demand. “You want 300k a week; TAKE 400!!!! Just keep him at the Emirates”. He gets injured that’s then 20 million a year sitting at home watching Netflix with his physio.

Yet over in France yet more excitement. The two centrist parties, the ones that have held sway in that sorry land for decades, both lost their candidates in the presidential battle. Not that either were worth that much. Can’t be; they’re French. But that leaves just Marine Le Pen, fascist, slightly-sanitised neo-nazi, in the right corner, and Emmanuel Macron, granny-shagging (no comments, per-lease, I refer only that his wife is 25 years his elder) independent socialist in the left one.

The rise of populism once more. Anti-establishment voting hits France. In what they’re calling ‘the continuation of what started with the ‘Arab Spring”. And that worked out… errr… hmmm… ok, its still working out.

I vote for Lila.

Happy monday

A xxxx