An evening with India...

Talking to myself of people wanting to assassinate the Royalty I just came across a documentary on the telly about the IRA assassination of Lord Mountbatton.

They interviewed his granddaughter India (named after the fact that Lord M was the last Viceroy).  Had to laugh when she said something like “he didn’t really live in a castle it was just a mansion with a turret”. 

Sorry you seemed like a nice lady but nobody's buying you're middle class, India.

For some reason the security services didn’t protect Lord M properly and the IRA put a remote control bomb on his boat.   

I always wondered if the lack of enthusiasm to protect Lord Mountbatten had anything to do with this…

…but it seems more likely watching the documentary that the silly old fool just had no idea how close to the troubles he was living or the scale of the problem.  Then again this was a man so vain he thought he could run the country better than Harold Wilson.  Then again maybe that wasn't that hard in the 60s...

There were a few things I hadn’t thought about in the documentary … such as … the relatives that also died on the boat and the coordinated terror attacks on the paratroopers on the same day.  Odd now to see the scale of the troubles… there was the obligatory footage of the man with the blood stained white surrender hanky on bloody Sunday.

Prince Charles called Lord Mountbatton the “grandfather” he never had but never-the-less when the peace process eventually came the Queen shook Martin McGuiness’s hand.  Well, that's her job I suppose shaking the hands of dubious people... nice to see her working for a living at least...

She semed to draw the line at asking “and what do you do?” ...

I'm not saying the monarchy are unpopular...

... But they do seem to need an increasing volume of paraphernalia to protect them....

Then again when pelicans go on the turn.......

Important news about my conservatory...

As a failed promoter... I have a grudging respect for all flyerers, publicists and deliverers of junk mail however incompetent ... however surely it was by anyone's standards the height of silly pointlessness to deliver an envelope entitled "Important News about your Conservatory" to a 2nd floor walk up flat. 

Then again it's more effort than the Church of England put in.  God moves in mysterious ways - but not as far up as the 2nd landing.  I'd have some sympathy but I live directly opposite it's not like they had to walk far to bring them here.  Surely actually popping these through the letterbox would not be too stressful?  Possibly I'm not worth the pilgrimage but then again it's hardly the Zambezi expedition...

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Good food exists less when it's Sainsburys

I don't know if it's Brexit related but there wasn't much ham in Sainsburys yesterday.  Not much humous either.  Have the shortages started already?  Maybe we see only want we want to see but I see many shelves half empty (or half full?)