The Boy and The Coconut Tree

Today is probably the hottest day of the year so far and my skin is as pink as these flip-flops and I was only out in the sun for 45 minutes or so and I was wearing SPF30. So it is going to be a scorcher.  Yesterday was pretty close so I decided to cool my feet off by wearing flip-flops for my commute to work, not much walking really, less than 1km to my local station and then from London Bridge to my office but I didn't foresee the cobble stones of Hays Galleria, the streets between the buildings are partly cobbled.  All I can say is, flip-flops are not really designed for anything but sand, they are more instruments of torture than fashion accessory and if they are the Brazilian/Australian contribution to global fashion well Paris has not much to worry about right now. I was meant to visit a theme-park today, LegoLand Windsor but when the weather was predicted to be over 30C today, high UV, high pollen count that combined with the high screaming child count, high...

A political blog from me. After the events of last night in London and recent events in Manchester the right wing in the UK (and USA) are blaming everyone but themselves!  Today, Jeremy Corbyn had this to say!  Y ou cannot protect the public on the cheap . The police and security services must get the resources they need, not 20,000 police cuts. Theresa May was warned by the Police Federation but she accused them of “crying wolf”.  We will recruit another 10,000 new police officers, including more armed police, as well as 1,000 more security services staff to support our communities and help keep us safe. And today our PM is campaigning and spreading the fear in order to win an election, don't let that happen!  The UK and USA also arm Saudi Arabia, it is a theocracy that supports ISIS. S audi Arabia stirs sectarian violence across the middle-east.  The UK did the same in Ireland and we moved on. It is time we stopped supporting states that support terrorist...