10th October, 2025: World Porridge Day.
Right … it’s Friday: and I’m up early, again.
Yesterday?
I was up early, to go to what they used to call a Job Fair: a chance for employers to meet potential recruits.
I didn’t get much out of it, I think.
But get details of L&Q’s recruitment website: so I could set up an email alert.
So that’s something.
By contrast, I’m up early, today … because I’ve an optician’s appointment.
Yep: I’m picking up new spectacles.
Hopefully, I won’t need to return them at a later dat.
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Peace has broken out in the Middle East.
As Israel’s cabinet approved the peace plan proposed by the US President.
Can I be honest|?
I feel deeply cynical about this.
As the Middle East has seen peace-plan after peace-plan, ceasefire after ceasefire, for way too long.
I fully expect this to last for ten minutes.
I also feel deeply cynical about the US president’s motive.
He’s made it perfectly clear he want’s a Nobel Peace Prize: saying as much at a recent speech at the UN.
As far as I’m concerned?
This means the president wants the prestige of a Nobel peace prize because:
- He’s jealous: President Obama got one, so he wants one, too.
- He wants one to make himself look good: rather than because he thinks peace in the Middle East is a good thing to achieve.
OK: I grant President Obama’s Nobel Prize got awarded in a suspiciously short amount of time.
But Obama wasn’t publicly embarrassing himself, and his country, by begging for it.
The current president?
Is.
Frankly?
I can only hope the Nobel Committee gives the gong to someone — anyone! — else.
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