Path to Nowhere

Seeing as we're more or less in the middle of Autumn, I thought that I'd include an Autumnal picture.  This one was taken yesterday, while I was out on a walk.  Despite appearances, that is not a path stretching ahead between the trees - as I found out.  Although a clearly defined and obviously humanly  made path leads to this point, if you proceed from its end, between the trees, you eventually find yourself in the middle of thick undergrowth, with no obvious trail leading out the other way.  Which meant I had to retrace  my steps.  I'm still mystified as to why there was a path leading to this point - there was no evidence that it lead any where else.  Perhaps I should take it as symbolic of where we seem to be going right now: nowhere.  Still, it was a pleasant walk, a chance to enjoy the season at a point while there are still quite a lot of green leaves on the trees, while others are now turning.  

I thought that I'd better take the opportunity to get outside and make the most of the season before the government brings in that second lockdown they say that they aren't going to implement.  Because if there is one thing we've surely learned about this government is that they will U-turn on anything.  In fact, it is pretty much inevitable that they will renege on deals and turn through a hundred and eighty degrees on any given policy.  Remember that 'oven ready' Brexit withdrawal agreement that Johnson boasted about having negotiated, the one he campaigned on at the last election, promising that it would all but rule out the possibility of a 'No Deal' Brexit?  Well, that's out of the window now - apparently the deal that he negotiated and signed is unacceptable and that it is somehow all the EU's fault.  (Just like the upsurge in coronavirus cases is all the fault of the public, not the government for mishandling the easing of lockdown).    Oh, not to forget, it is also the EU's fault (because they wouldn't back down on key issues and disadvantage their member states) that we are now heading for the 'No  Deal' Brexit that the likes of Rees-Mogg and Farage have been slavering for.  You know, I really do despair, we a have a government fighting on two fronts - the pandemic and Brexit - and losing on both of them due to its incompetence and corruption.  

Anyway, I was surprised to see Christmas decorations on display in a shop window today - I thought that Christmas had been cancelled this year, due to coronavirus.  Actually, postponing Christmas 2020 until, say, next July, is probably the only hope Johnson has of fulfilling his earlier promises that it 'would all be over by Christmas'.  Unless he wants to adhere to his earlier idea of suspending anti-Covid measures temporarily so that people can have a 'normal' Christmas, that is.  Which would turn it into the season of super spreading, I suppose: 'give your loved ones the gift of coronavirus this Christmas'.  Still, if nothing else, the effective cancellation of Christmas would give Crapchester council an opportunity to provide us with an even more pathetic display of festive decorations than usual.  Mind you, it would, at least, mean that I could save money on Christmas presents..