We had a heatwave in June for a week and a bit. Temperatures shot over 20C.
Since then it's mostly rained, or has been overcast. With whopping great highs of 14C, or sometimes even higher, it's been a muggy summer. I have my fan on almost constantly, especially in the hot, sticky nights where it rarely goes below 10C.
It's rained so much my small gardening projects were a bit of a washout, but I've learned from my mistakes. I think I might get to forage a bumper crop of sweet chestnuts this year, though. What we can grow and where is a global issue if food production is to continue.
Last week my daughter, two of the grandkids and I visited St Fagans, the Museum of Welsh Life. We picked an overcast day to go because it's mostly an outdoors thing, but despite the usually reliable forecast the sun came out, like completely. We went home earlier than we had planned because none of us could handle it.
We've been lucky to have our regular Welsh summer while everywhere else (apart from Ireland) has burned. Today is overcast with highs of 15C, but it's breezy enough to feel quite fresh. My voile curtains are billowing.
I remember paying an old thrupney bit with it's crystal-like twelve sides and brassy colour on the bus with my mum when I first started school.
That was disappointingly replaced by the swindle-some decimal currency (I was told in Boots the Chemist that two and a half pence change was the same as the old sixpence like I was a muppet of a five-year-old), but the public transport was also replaced by a school minibus-driving, diminutive nun who gave me my first lesson in feminism.
I'll forever mourn the magical thrupence, but that penguin talked some proper sense.
Perhaps 'paselo' has some STI nuance you're unaware of.
You make a good point, however, that we often give in our own best interests. The idea that there is no such thing as true altruism is perhaps altruism's greatest beauty.
Thank you, although I am having a bit of a whinge, and not just about the buses.
What else besides our much needed, but bonkers buses are we getting wrong?
When just a few people own everything and everything becomes too expensive for everyone else, what is the value of the richest person?
As for passing on the good deed, there are infinitely more ways to give than receive, with or without overt appreciation. Every supermarket has a food bank with room for a quid's worth, or two of goodies.
I saw an expensive box of chocolates in a food bank basket recently. We often think in terms of necessities, of three value tins of beans for our £1 donation, but forget the joy, the emotional value of a treat when life is a day to day struggle. I was vicariously thrilled to see that extravagant gift.
I realise that this video is not politically neutral, but it does explain the law and the possible legal tactics clearly:
There's a lot of interesting stuff there.
On the subject of why it's taken so long for Trump to be indicted regarding J6, I think perhaps the answer is in how cleverly structured everything is such that people are being held to account for their actions, or held to abide by the constitution all the way up to and including the Supreme Court Justices.
If a drug had a mortality rate of 1% it wouldn't get past the clinical trials phase.
In the UK, nine deaths have been recorded as a direct result of a covid vaccine, or a contributing factor. Millions of vaccinations were administered.
Having said that, there have been other deaths within a short time of vaccination and self-reported adverse reactions which may, or may not have a causal link with the vaccine.
Personal choices about vaccines are somewhat irrelevant with respect to a resurgence of the disease, however. Like colds a and 'flu, covid has become endemic. Some years will be worse than others (bird 'flu and swine 'flu come to mind) and to have a blip now would be no great surprise. Such is the nature of the transition of pandemic to endemic.
I don't think anyone deserves to have a bad reaction to the vaccine, nor the disease itself. Hysteria and conspiracy accusations are probably more difficult to treat than the physical infection, though.
Like I said earlier, the link with taking the sedatives could be a correlation, rather than the cause.
One of the traits of my health condition is a hypersensitivity to medications, additives and anything psychoactive. I've never been particularly tolerant of caffeine, but took me a long time to work out after becoming ill that the residual caffeine in one cup of decaffeinated tea was enough to keep me awake for about 24 hours. I thought it was the medication I was on that was causing wretched insomnia, but it was just making me dehydrated...and there's nothing like a harmless decaf cuppa for quenching your thirst, eh?
I think it's a usual pattern that a pandemic lasts for two years, but a smaller resurgence occurs after a brief-ish period.
Most mutations that are highly transmissible are less severe. Milder infections are distributed amongst functioning people, whereas the ones which incapacitate and kill interface with fewer hosts.
So, yes, we may be due a resurgence, we may have to be careful for a bit, but it's unlikely to be on the scale of lorries full of bodies again.
If your friend is convinced that her husband's worst episodes occur shortly after she's given him his sedative, then his worst episodes are shortly after she's given him his sedative.
She is the one giving him his meds twice a day and she is the one who is able to observe his wellbeing and behaviour all day. Unless she has an amoeba for a brain, it's not unreasonable to think she has observed this pattern accurately.
It may not be a causal relationship, but a correlative one, however.
It may be an additive in the medication rather than the active ingredient, for example.
It may be something that happens alongside taking his medication, like your friend's anxiety level going up waiting for the sedation to take effect, or waiting for the anticipated melt-down - her agitation may trigger her husband.
It could be anything, like eating a meal with medication, that is the causal link.
I'm sure your friend has her hands full and that caring for her husband is exhausting, but it might be worth her starting a detailed diary of her husband's patterns - time, behaviour, foods, sleep, meds, weather, whatever. In this way she may see other patterns and/or have an evidenced based observation to take to her husband's doctor.
I feel a little annoyed for your friend that her observation was dismissed without any exploration.
I currently have 643 unopened mail in my inbox and I'd be surprised if 20% are from genuine members.
It would take me days to do CS's job for them, given they clearly don't vet profiles before approving them. They don't pay enough for that.
Usually, I oscillate between 200 and 400 unopened mail, presumably as CS intermittently blitzes the scam profiles. It seems to be even more out of control that usual, at the moment.
Ah, I wonder if the subtitles were inaccurate, but I can't remember where I saw it.
It definitely said 199, but it's not unusual for something like '100,99' or '100 or 99' in speech to end up as '199' in a subtitle.
I don't much like Glenn Kirschner's style, nor biases, but he's good at explaining the law and the practicalities of the legal process. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't hyperbole.
It's all a part of the 'Democrats and Antifa instigated it all, entrapping the poor wee, hapless Republicans' spiel.
Personally, I think security failures should be independently investigated, whether people dropped the ball, or actively conspired to let events take their course. I think that is owed to the Capitol police.
I don't think any findings should exonerate Trump, or anyone else, though. I imagine Jack Smith's choice of indictments are astute enough for that not to happen, anyway.
Given the support Trump has had and is still having, I don't think it will happen without legal process, nor perhaps should it. That's a part of why the charges against him are so important - under the circumstances he should be cleared to run for office again, or otherwise.
It's seems to me that when Trump was impeached, officials voted in their own self-interest, rather than in the interest of democracy, the constitution and the citizenry. Government cannot be trusted to self-regulate in the US under the current circumstances.
And I don't think it was just Trump who violated those provisions: by not standing up to Trump in their own self-interests many Republican officials gave aid and comfort. How close to 'every last one of them', except for those fired by Trump, might that be?
It will be interesting to see how the trajectory of holding people to account continues.
The gist of it was that because intelligence about the risk status on J6 wasn't passed on to the Chief of the Capitol Police, Trump didn't do anything wrong.
A failure to pass on intelligence, or prevent illegal activity does not exonerate those who acted illegally.
It means that other people should be investigated as well, not instead of.
Once the Capitol rioters and allegedly complicit politicians and lawyers have faced justice, then the next step may be failings with respect to security and any complicit actors if it was deliberate, rather than incompetence, or failures in the system with respect to co-ordinating the many different agencies.
Given Trump's popularity increases every time he's indicted, it has crossed my mind that maybe he's deliberately goading Judge Tanya Chutkan with breaking the terms of his pretrial release.
If he's not, then he must either be remarkably stupid, or remarkably arrogant.
I don't think he's that stupid, despite clearly not having a grasp on many topics.
Whilst it has similar elements to the premise in the op and a comment I made about the courtroom not being big enough to seat the entire US population, you appear to have gone off on a tangent.
The statement in the op is about affording the US citizenry as victims of Trump's alleged crimes, the legal right to witness the trial, not for them to be witnesses in the trial.
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I'm impressed, Mimi.Most people don't know that Wales exists, let alone that we have a language, traditional food and a costume which suits you well.
I like laverbread oatcakes the best, but you might like to try your hand a bara brith.