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Part 4, covid rants, rAmbles and ruminations
My need to tidy up is kicking in again, so here goes with putting some of my published Covid rants, rambles and ruminations over the last few weeks into some kind of order. It should be easier than the previous collating ... Part 1 posted on April 13 here, part 2...
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About to go out on a long bike ride hunting for possible Tree of the Day contenders. But frankly nothing will beat this, sent to me overnight from @miriamgonzalezdurantez in Alaska. I am loving her conversion to full on wildlife and scenery fanatic! Alaska is of course in USA but I hesitate to give three medals to US under Trump. So I am going gold for 🇪🇸 silver for Alaska (on same basis Yorkshire recently won a medal) and bronze for usa 🇺🇸 provided Biden-Harris win in November.
Enfin, endlich, at last, after all the delays, postponements, rewrites, a real book with real pages comes off the printing press or whatever today’s equivalent is! Love the design. Go to link in bio if you would like to order one of the first signed copies from Waterstones. The launch is going to be very different to any of my other books, with so much face to face stuff cancelled because of Covid. I do think the need for proper focus on mental health is going to be an even bigger issue post Covid than pre. Anyway thanks to all who helped with publication. And thanks in advance to all who read it and spread the word.
Thoroughly enjoying this biography of Jürgen Klopp. Loved the account of his Mainz predecessors who (pic 2) set up the team in the shape of a bagpipe and even better in these Tree of the Day days, got his players to hug trees (pic 3). Man U man Ed Woodward look away pic 4. He was not impressed by your wooing!
A day late! Yesterday’s Tree of the Day winner was from Corsica so gold for 🇫🇷 and a personal diplomatic triumph for Catherine Colonna! Ex Chirac spokeswoman, now French Ambassador to the U.K. (lucky to be on holiday while Johnson and Patel play silly Farage games in the channel) - making history as the first Ambo to win L’Arbre du Jour!! Look at how the tree not only survives conditions but takes care to shelter the bench. Formidable, as nobody ever said about Priti, ever .... #unviable
I put today’s Tree of the Day to a twitter vote and pic 1 won by a mile. 🏴 gets 🥇 for this amazing wall-surrounded tree in St Andrews. North Devon wins 🥈 for 🏴 and Skye led me to the bronze for 🇫🇷
Some days - ok just today - you spot one tree made up of three constituent parts worthy of a full Tree of the Day podium. Left to right gold to bronze. What a survivor the droopy bit !
Tree of the Day is the one that made the bats of Woakes and Buttler. Fantastic partnership. Keep telling myself I will get off the sofa. Impossible. Test cricket at its best and though it would be so much better with a crowd having no fans doesn’t kill the passion in the same way it does football.
Tree of the day 🥇 🇫🇷- same tree different angle
Anyone who doesn’t understand tree hugging show them Pic 1. How could anyone with blood in their veins not want to hug that tree? So it is Tree of the Day 🥇 to Ireland 🇮🇪 Silver and bronze to two old Number 10 colleagues. @peterhyman21 might have won gold with his Whipsnade effort but he tried too hard by demanding extra points for two hippos. Bronze to @patmcfaddenmp for his Royal research in the New Forest - shared between 🏴 (venue) and 🏴 (homeland of photographer)
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