{"id":2176,"date":"2021-04-14T18:53:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2021-04-14T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T22:08:00","slug":"wednesday-14th-april-2021-day-394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/14\/wednesday-14th-april-2021-day-394\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 14th April, 2021 [Day 394]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday is always a day when we are running a little hard to catch up with ourselves because it is the day\u00a0when we have to refine our <\/span>Waitrose<\/em> order, ready for delivery the following day. Upon my son’s instigation, though, we decided to see if we could book a special excursion on the Severn Valley Railway in one month’s time on the occasion of my birthday on Tuesday, May 11th. The arrangement is that you can book a carriage which can contain four people. So my son can take a day off work and make up a party of four which will include \u00a0the three Hart family\u00a0members and also include our University of Birmingham friend who has also been looking forward, we know, to a trip on the railway. Basically we start off at Kidderminster and make our way through five interesting stations before arriving at Bridgnorth, where they have a pub with lots of real ale at the very end of the platform. So we are all looking forward to this trip immensely – even if the weather is bad, we are under cover for a lot of the time. Also, as a bonus, because of my son’s membership of the SVR, we managed to secure quite a substantial discount for our day’s excursion.\u00a0<\/span>So our walk to the park was a little delayed, as is\u00a0typical on a Wednesday even without the railway booking. \u00a0<\/span>On our way down we were stopped and engaged in a conversation with an acquaintance \u00a0which eventually led to a discussion of military matters and why firearms that are ‘rifled’ are more accurate. The process of ‘rifling’ means that a system of helical grooves are incorporated into the body of the rifle which makes any bullet basically spin. This spinning motion effectively neutralises any slight variation in the weight of a bullet (and there is no longer a ‘light’ side or a ‘heavy’ side) and makes it more accurate both in flight and the ability to\u00a0reach an\u00a0<\/span>intended\u00a0target. Actually, for someone who is totally ignorant about all things military, I knew all of the facts that our\u00a0acquaintance was trying to convey but I couldn’t say how and where I\u00a0acquired this esoteric knowledge. Eventually, when we\u00a0got to the park we could see at a glance that all of our more normal benches were occupied so we had to make do with a seat by the side of the\u00a0pond\/lake so we ate our comestibles without any chats with anyone. The weather was\u00a0starting to look a\u00a0little threatening and it had clouded over quite markedly – however, by the time we got\u00a0home the\u00a0weather had brightened again and it looked as though we were set for for a fine afternoon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After lunch, I started another bottling process and in this case, cooking oil. We buy our cooking oil in 5-litre containers and buy a rapeseed oil which is h<\/span>alf the saturated fat of Olive Oil, rich in Omega 3, 6, 9 and Vitamin E. This has the\u00a0<\/span>advantage<\/span>\u00a0that I never run out\u00a0off cooking oil when I need it as I generally have a stock of about a dozen bottles in stock. Also our domestic help (and her husband) loves this oil to cook with as it has a much\u00a0<\/span><\/span>superior ‘fry’ temperature to other oils and quite a\u00a0delightful nutty flavour. \u00a0In addition, we are cutting down on food miles and utilising an ‘almost’ local\u00a0product.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the late afternoon, we had a visit from our local chiropodist who provides a\u00a0domiciliary service for Meg and myself. We tend to have our hooves ‘done’ about every 4-5 weeks or so and this keeps us mobile. As the weather was so fine this afternoon, we decided to sit on our bench at the front of the house as it was a beautiful spring afternoon –\u00a0this proved to be so pleasant that we might\u00a0chose to have our feet done like this for the\u00a0rest of the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The political news this afternoon is quite interesting. In the House of Commons, Boris Johnson has\u00a0successfully beat off a challenge from the Labour\u00a0<\/span>Party to\u00a0establish a\u00a0special Commons committee to investigate what is being\u00a0called ‘Tory sleaze’ i.e. David Cameron, the ex Tory PM attempting to get a commercial firm with which he was associated to be awarded some privileges by the Treasury. If successful, David Cameron would have made a great\u00a0deal of money – but instead the firm involved, Greensill Capital, has collapsed. However, a very powerful and influential Commons Select Committee, the Treasury Select Committee, has decided to investigate the whole of\u00a0this affair formally and they would have the\u00a0power to\u00a0<\/span>call whatever witnesses they\u00a0required\u00a0which would include both David Cameron (ex-PM) and Rishi Sunak, present Chancellor\u00a0off the\u00a0Exchequer, whose hands do not seem to be entirely clean in this affair. We shall have to\u00a0sit and see!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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