Elementary My Dear

Just look what has arrived!

The new 50 pence coin from the Royal Mail, marking the adventures of the greatest consulting detective. Mr Sherlock Holmes first published adventure appeared in 1887 and Arthur Conan Doyles' stories have endured, through many incarnations, in print, film and television.

Memorial Bench

A lovely memorial seat has been installed in my local park this past week. This literally sits nicely with the sapling trees planted a few months ago, to mark those from the immediate area who died during the Great War.

Dash

Thought I would keep up with technological innovations and treat myself to a dash cam. They seem to have become increasingly popular in the UK and if it helps create a better picture in the event of the unforeseen happening, then I guess I am all in favour. This one was a bargain, at over 50% off the RRP dontchaknow.

To physically install in my car, route and hide the cabling was relatively simple and quick. To set the damn thing up took far long and a teenager. Which proves a long held theory of mine that if you want a new piece of technology setting up, often it's best to give it to a 15 year old LOL.

Well done ll.

Pointless

The polls have now closed in the UK for the unnecessary European elections. We shouldn't have been forced to take part but since our elected national leaders are so incompetent or self-serving, the UK is still part of the EU and by law we have to take part.

In our national and local votes, the results start rolling in through the wee small hours however other European member states will be voting over the weekend, so our results won't be announced until after 10pm Sunday. Another major difference is we normally use the 'first past the post' system, ie the person with the most votes wins. In the European vote, we have a form of proportional representation, so the vote is more for a party and the candidates they have put forward for a particular region.

This whole farce will have cost UK taxpayer millions and those we elect as MEP's might possibly never get to sit in the EU parliament should the UK finally get round to leaving.

Anyway on my way to vote, I had the opportunity to snap this awesome sunset. Red sky at night and all that...

To Vote Or Not Vote (Part II)

This time, the pointless European elections. You know, the ones we were promised we wouldn't take part in because we would have left the EU by now.

The EU Parliament won't actually sit until July and there's an outside chance BREXIT might have occurred by then, that the majority will of the people of this great country will have prevailed. In which case the millions spent holding this election will have been wasted. Well done to the political elite, who behave like they think they know better.

Rant over.

Farm

One of my Peonies is now flowering, the other seems to be a little way behind and providing a great venue for an ant farm LOL.

A Good Night?

Forget Eurovision, it's gonna be a great night LOL...

Bricking It

What could this signify? The coming Apocalypse or, as it might be called, Brickgeddon LOL?

Peony

Won't be long now...

Spex

New glasses ordered on 'tinternet at a fraction of the high street cost. It's a wonder sometimes that any physical shops still survive. At least we still need somewhere to get an actual sight test and vision prescription...

To Vote Or Not Vote

England and Northern Ireland go to the Polls today; Wales and Scotland are spared LOL. Local councils in two of the four UK nations are up for re-election. To be quite honest though, given how the national Parliament has behaved recently, many are questioning whether they should bother turning out to vote. If our national leaders don't get their act together very soon, we'll be forced to take part in the European elections scheduled for 23rd of this month...