What a weekend its been. I can only remember one consistently sunny Easter weekend in my adult life. About 40 years ago when a group of us rented a Thames river boat and spent the time sailing in the sunshine much to everyone’s amazement, ours included. As we’d packed umbrellas, waterproofs, wind-wear, storm clothing, thermals, the usual Easter anticipatory essentials.

But this weekend felt like a summer holiday. Tennis in the sunshine? What’s that all about? Never catch on. But because of Liladay, Mel & I had a 5-day break. Which again never happens usually but this weekend the Gods conspired it. Quite literally as she never works on Easter Sunday (her practice is open all other Sunday mornings) and Saturday was a Jewish holiday upon which she always closes too. So as not to offend many of the ghetto dwellers in her area. Easter and Passover rarely coincide so perfectly due to the Jewish religious calendar being lunar and no-one really knows when Jesus rose up. There’s no Cctv footage. And sunshine is a tonic. No doubt about it. Ok, that and 4 of the top 6 teams in the league failing to win, leaving the status quo unchanged, almost, which means Spurs are still 3rd. Phew. Dodged a fucking bullet.

But best of all; its been a virtually Brexit-free time. As if the entire nation, politicians and press included, just called a great big TIME OUT on the most boring, agonising and laborious political process since… the last one.

We’ve been talking about climate change, and I dodged another bullet there by going to the V&A on Sunday because yesterday the protesters sat down outside the Natural History Museum next door. Fine by me. Good though the Dior was, I weren’t going back.

And there was the terrible bombing in Sri Lanka in which 300 perfectly innocent people died for some cause as yet identified or claimed, but its probably an international Islamist action as apparently the local bunch in Colombo ain’t bright enough to have co-ordinated such a mass murder without help.

So yes, even without Brexit we can still really appreciate just how fucked up the entire world is.

But it felt good while it lasted.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx