Easter Weekend

What an Easter!  Every time you think that Trump and his buddies can't possibly do or say anything crazier, well, they just up the ante!  Who'd have thought that we'd ever see the day when a President of the United States would be publicly effing and blinding at the leadership of another sovereign state?  'Open the fuckin' Strait!'  I mean, I know that the US is at war with Iran, but nonetheless - you didn't see Winston Churchill screaming over the BBC Home Service that Hitler was a 'fuckin' arsehole', or that he should take his plan to invade Britain and 'stick it up his arse and set fire to it'.  Maybe he should have, not that it would have actually had any impact on the way the war was going.  But surely the whole point of leadership pronouncements during a war is to legitimise your own stance, making you look like the reasonable and righteous one and the enemy like a bunch of foaming at the month crazy bastards.  But with every day that goes by, the Trump administration succeeds in making the religious fanatic psychopaths who run Iran look like reasonable, sane and balanced people.  It's like some sort of reverse white washing - the US makes itself sound more unhinged and out-of-control with every official pronouncement, while the Iranians come off as utterly reasonable and measured in their responses.  In truth, of course, they are both utterly unhinged, but the Iranians seem to be winning the propaganda battle.  Or rather, the US is losing that battle, shooting itself in the foot on a daily basis.  

But enough of Donald Trump's Easter.  What about my Easter?  After all, this is my blog and should surely revolve around my ego?  I don't know why, but I always enjoy the long Easter weekend, despite the fact that I'm not religious, can't eat chocolate and as I'm enjoying the fruits of my work pensions, it really shouldn't make any odds to me whether it's a public holiday or not - every day is a holiday to me.  But it represents a chance to change routines - I've just spent four days of crashing out on the sofa all afternoon watching long movies I don't usually have time to watch in a single sitting, for instance.  Plus, it feels and sounds different.  As I've mentioned before, I live on the nexus of several school routes, so most mornings, as I lie in bed, I can hear the hustle and bustle of the school run going on outside.  On school holidays it gets quieter, but the regular work day traffic is still there, but on bank holidays, it is just so quiet and peaceful!  I treasure such mornings, particularly the Easter weekend, which offers two bank holidays and a quieter than usual weekend sandwiched between them.  It's like the rest of the world has finally got the message to bugger off and leave me in peace!  Anyway, my sedentary long weekend suited my mood: after recent events, I still don't really feel like doing much, although I really must force myself into action, as I have so much to get done on multiple fronts.  For one thing, I really need to focus more on posting properly here - I winged it last week, with a podcast and that Pete Hegseth cartoon allowing me a couple of easy, lazy posts.  (The Hegseth cartoon has also helped me confirm my theory that what you post on Bluesky is less important than who you are - if you are one of those 'cool kids' forever 'working on their books', then you can post any old shit and it will get liked and re-posted ad infinitum.  But if you are a mere mortal, then no matter how topical or notable your contribution is, it'll get ignored.  Not that I'm bitter and twisted at my satirical genius going unnoticed, of course).