Porridge

I have just emerged from a period of depression. Despite a restful few days in Dorset there has been a shadow. Don't know what, why or how, but there it is.

A comment on the radio cheered me up yesterday (on 'Question Time'). A commentator likened Gordon Brown to porridge. I suppose he meant 'slow and stodgy' with particular reference to the Prime Minister's reaction to the effects of the '10p income tax' decision. A Minister, on the panel, replied that 'porridge is nutritious'. Frederick Forsyth countered that Gordon Brown was indeed like porridge 'thick and from Scotland' . Later I heard a play on Radio 4 in which Boswell (Johnson's biographer) replies to a comment that 'in Scotland the men eat oats, a dish that, in England is fit only for horses'. He says ' that is why the English have the best horses and Scotland the best men' .

I have just re-read my comments of Wednesday, 27 June 2007

New Prime Minister today!!! S'funny I don't feel any different. Thought it was an impressive first speech outside Number 10. New Politics eh! I like that idea, let's see if it works. Pity Paddy Ashdown didn't see it that way. Best men/women for the job despite party boundaries -sounds good to me.

Well that's as near to optimism as I was going to get. Pity he's turned out to be a ditherer. Wanted power but doesn't seem to know what to do with it. Even Mugabwe realises how insignificant Brown is. Brown, as Lord Desai commented this week, was put on earth to make Tony Blair look good. My goodness what a condemnation. No wonder I felt depressed

The photo above was taken at a high level security council meeting on Peace in Africa on 16 April 08.
A good news story is that another 'Johnson' is to manage England!!! Only the rugby team though. Pity.

I'm off to make some porridge!