Mad dogs and English(wo)men

[azalaisdep]

Well, today has been another crazy day in British politics! The Tory leadership contest unexpectedly skipped its final round when the penultimate candidate withdrew (frankly a relief as she appears to be as mad as a box of frogs, as well as not very competent), making many of us wonder whether she'd been a plant in the first place to prevent the

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[just_ann_now]

lovely blackbird enjoying himself no end having a bath on the end of the plank in our pond when I came down this morning :-)

Yes! I had a catbird in my bird bath the other day, just splishing and splashing and ducking his head, as all the sparrows and finches watched in awe. Their pool parties are very sedate in comparison!

[azalaisdep]

Just Googled "catbird" and discovered it is a real thing (it sounded too like something a toddler would invent!)

The blackbird was really going for it - stretching his wings out, ducking his head, splashing away. I'm so pleased that the fairly chance decision to put a plank sloping into the pond (because we were worried, after the next-door fence was replaced and all the overhanging vegetation cut back as a result, that the frogs wouldn't be able to get out) has been such a boon to the birds in the last few days as the weather's got hotter :-)

[ysilme]

If you wrote a soap or a movie with all this, nobody would buy it, claiming it's too unrealistic and far-fetched for the audience or so.... *raises eyebrows* Good grief. I can imagine you're longing for insignificant silliness on the news. At least I have a good excuse for once to use that icon. *g*

lost tourists who accidentally go round and round the Circle Line on the London Underground for a week.
Really? ;o)

[azalaisdep]

lost tourists who accidentally go round and round the Circle Line on the London Underground for a week.
Really? ;o)

Either that, or people's grannies who set off to visit them and spend several days driving round and round the M25 (the London orbital motorway). Or end up in Belgium.

Personally I'd settle for a waterskiing hamster.

And yes, yesterday I felt *very* much like that icon. (Have you seen the one with the Brexit cat? "You should ask for ages and ages for the door to exit the EU to be opened and then when they do open it, you should just sit there and stare at it...")

[ysilme]

Either that, or people's grannies who set off to visit them and spend several days driving round and round the M25 (the London orbital motorway). Or end up in Belgium.
*lol* I see. But then, when I came to London for the second time with a friend as geeky as I, we were fooling around so much we ended up feeding the Gap with breadcrumbs since we felt it was so lonely, with all the people always minding it but nothing else.... ;o)

I hadn't seen that icon yet, or clip, but have found one, with Simon's cat. Did you mean this one? It's terrific! :D

[curiouswombat]

I really, really, want to go back to the water-skiing hamsters. They are more believable than the current political situation.

[azalaisdep]

Oh how true. Would quite cheerfully see most of the break-it-all-and-run-away Brexiteers turned into waterskiing hamsters...

[marta_bee]

Coming in to this late, I know, but I do find it fascinating how Americans and Brits approach summer and politics differently. We get all angry and start shooting each other, or in an election year get truly angry and our politicians get extra nasty toward each other. Whereas Brits seem to just throw up their hands and focus on something suitably trivial to the heat.

Then again we do have Florida and Texas-style summers, so...

Can't say I wouldn't gladly swap you if I was given the chance, even so.

[azalaisdep]

The way things got in the run-up to and the aftermath of our EU referendum - with European and even non-white British citizens being racially abused and attacked in the street, even in heavily Remain-voting cities like Oxford - I fear we may be heading more in your political direction. To which I can only say, thank heavens we don't have a constitutional right to bear arms (most British thugs are quite unpleasant enough with their bare hands...)

We're just rubbish at hot summers anyway - as soon as it gets over about 25C all the papers start shrieking "HEATWAVE!" and our collective brains melt. Actually, most of this summer's weather was lovely, and September is beautiful so far with the heat turned down just to "pleasantly warm"...