Well lockdown as such has ended and DS1 and DS2 are back at work which is fantastic for both of them...it also gives me a couple of quietish days. The major problem is DP is still working from home and likely to be long term. I really hate him being around all the time, even when is 'working' he is wandering round and talking at me....and he is soooo boring and self absorbed! For someone who claims he watches no TV he is constantly telling me about the stuff he watches! I'm so lucky to be deaf.
DD is doing really well with her Instagram and taking some beautiful photos and writing some lovely posts. Going out leaves her shattered....and me! We left the house by 4am last time and were in Scarborough before 6am for sunrise! It was beautiful but I was struggling to keep my eyes open by the time we got home and still needed to sort DD and do all the other jobs waiting to be done before I could close my eyes for an hour or so.
Went over to Malton a week ago to see DM, she is still alive, well it's not what I'd call a life but she's still breathing and being racist. I can see I'll need to go over every month or so until she dies...I reckon another year or two. She is in nappies and can't realistically move except in a wheelchair, oh the irony after all her foul bitchy comments about DD being 'overly reliant' on her wheelchair. I will be so pleased when she finally dies, a job I can cross off my 'to do list'.
They had some photos of my DB ...all I can say is he does NOT look like my baby brother. He is not aging well at all. He's put on some weight...probably still weighs less than me but it really does him no favours. He is also bald...a family trait...and very wrinkled, which is less usual in the family. It makes no odds to me, I haven't seen him in years and will probably only see him twice more for DM's funeral and then for DF's. I email him a couple of times a year to thank him for presents and I send him Amazon vouchers for birthdays. Not a relationship I miss which is sad. I still miss DB1 and he died 30 years ago.
Hopefully we won't have another lockdown, but who knows 2020 is a year that keeps shovelling more shit our way. Leeds is coping better than many parts of the world which is something I am grateful for, but it's still not a year I would ever choose to repeat!
In other news America is gearing up for and election in November. Trump and the Republicans are doing everything...legal and realistically illegal to ensure they win. The popular vote will almost certainly be for Biden, as it was for Hillary Clinton in 2016 but I do see him 'winning'. I think Trump and his apparatchiks will steal the election, in much the same way Hitler 'won' in 1933. To be fair I fully expected Trump to cheat in order to win this election...I foresaw him manufacturing an emergency so he could declare martial law. Well he has Covid-19 but he barely needs an excuse...he is just dismantling the election system. Four more years of Trump....and more if he just passes the Presidency down to his children...are not going to be fun to watch.
Given my unmatched skill in predicting election results...100% wrong so far....I seriously hope my pessimism is a defense mechanism but I don't think so with this election. Trump is a vile repulsive person but his Republican enablers are just evil people.
