Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 5-11-2024 — The Gunpowder Plot

5th November, 2024: The Gunpowder Plot!

It’s officially official: I have a busy morning, today!

I’m due a phone appointment with my GP.

And the washing machine is due to be installed, today: around 12, 12:30.

Hopefully?

They won’t clash!

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Oh, it’s election day in the US.

Frankly?

I’m hoping Donald Trump doesn’t win: outside of the fact I find the man objectionable, I feel he’s no friend of the United Kingdom’s.

And I’ve heard some of his campaign rally statements.

They strike me as the sort of empty statement that Orwell would steal and use in 1984.

One that stuck in my mind?

Was Trump’s repeated statement that he’s going to end inflation.

I’m no economist … but, as far as I know, that’s an impossible job.

Trump … is making empty promises that make some of Big Brother’s statements sound reasonable … 

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That’s mildly surprising.

Facebook does these poll things, when you post.

I think they’re aimed at business users of the site: just to get an idea of what’s popular, and what’s not.

I posted one up to a Facebook group I belong to, just recently.

Just to find out what people thought was THE best love song going.

Frankly?

Hazel O’Connor’s Will You is proving popular.

It’s at the top of the list.

For good reason, I think.   I’ve felt, for years, that it’s the perfect summary of that moment: when an evening could end in a couple … 

Or in someone going home after a nice night out, not realising what some of the undertones were.

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Of course, the one I’m surprised isn’t doing better?

Is an old favourite, kd lang’s Miss Chatelaine.

Which is possibly the morning after Will You.

Whenever’s it’s being sung, though?

I still think Miss Chatelaine’s the perfect honey moon song: just capturing that wheeeee moment of new love, perfectly.

Oh, well … 

Here’s hoping it crawls up the rankings!

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