In the event, Putin was not rugby tackled on the red carpet before being clapped in irons and whisked off to Guantanamo Bay. On the contrary, Trump applauded the mass murderer, warmly shook hands with him and offered him a ride in the presidential limo known as The Beast. Even as I write this, the two "great leaders" are involved in talks about Ukraine that go something like this... "If you slap my back, I will slap yours".
Much more important than all of that, we have got Phoebe here tonight - having another sleep-over. It took quite a bit of patient diplomacy to get her to settle down for the night but at least we did not have to go to Alaska. There was "Paw Patrol", three boxed games, a warm bath and stories from both Grandma and Grandpa before she drifted off to slumberland.
Earlier, on this very computer chair I had Margot on one knee and Phoebe on the other as we watched Mr Tumble's versions of a dozen nursery rhymes. The wheels on the bus went round and round ad infinitum and The Grand Old Duke of York's men were surely sick of being marched up and down that goddamn hill. But I was in heaven - a bona fide grandpa with a granddaughter on each knee. Can life be better than that?
Earlier still, I was trimming a long hedge and on the other side pruning our rampant holly bushes. Plenty of garden waste to deal with - now sitting in two big builders' bags awaiting transport to the so-called recycling centre run by the city council over at Gleadless. We used to call it the tip. You have to time your visits there carefully to avoid long queues. They open at 9.30am on Saturday but I might leave it till Monday morning.
Over in Alaska, the legend "Pursuing Peace" is written on the wall behind the two lecterns where Vladimir Trump and Donald Putin are about to speak after three hours of talks. It's like the title of a poem. If you pursue it, will it co-operate and where might you find it? Crouching in undergrowth like a fox or evaporating into the summer air? Belligerent, spiteful, felonious and self-obsessed Trump turned into Trump The Peacemaker - like Ozzy Osbourne becoming an opera singer.
Meanwhile, Putin appears to talk in the voice of a skilled female interpreter. It suits him fine. Still, he has not been arrested and frogmarched the hell out of there.
"Next time in Moscow," smirks the tyrant.
My favorite part of your post is on grand daughters hedge trimming. the nonsense about two idiots is not pleasant.
ReplyDeleteSounds like it was all a waste of aviation fuel.
DeleteWe must also never forget that Putin ordered the kidnap of 19,000 Ukrainian children.
ReplyDeleteThe damage that that ****er has caused will last for decades. How many Russian families are now heartbroken?
DeleteAnd Frumpy the Peacemaker wants to have The Nobel Peace prize! Maybe he could share it with his pal Putin ...
ReplyDeleteGiving Tubby Trump the Nobel Peace Prize would be like giving a donkey an honorary degree in astrophysics.
DeleteAnd couldn't those two be happy just playing with their grandchildren same as you, Neil? Why the constant need for power, power and even more power? I have never understood this horrible trait in our species.
ReplyDeleteIf they stuck their fingers in an electric socket, they would get all the power they crave.
DeleteMr Tumble looks creepy.
ReplyDeleteHow nice to have two granddaughters at once.
A war criminal and common criminal walk into a meeting room together. Then what happens?
My apologies for the quiz question yesterday. I think you knew, so you get a point.
A war criminal and common criminal walk into a meeting room together. Then what happens?... It sounds like a joke but I don't know the answer.
DeleteSlap? I would like to slap both of them at once so their heads slap together and while they are knocked out I'd slap them in irons and drag them off to Alligator Alcatraz.
ReplyDeleteHow lucky to have both grandaughters on your knees, I can only manage one at a time, and they don't sit still very long anyway.
Alligator Alcatraz? I doubt that even the alligators would chow down on those big-headed nitwits.
DeleteYou are lucky you have the pleasure of two beautiful grandaughters to take your mind off the deplorable meeting in Alaska. Can anyone now doubt where idiot Trump's loyalties lie? Certainly not with Ukraine, or anywhere else that his slimy Russian pal tells him. Who's next I wonder?
ReplyDeleteNo wonder Putin kept smirking like the cat who got the cream.
DeleteAppeasers or aggressors? Only time will tell.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't even look at the news reports from Alaska until this morning. It is such a sham. Can you imagine the felon with two of his granddaughters on his knee? I certainly can't.
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