The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
We have just come back from a really lovely meal at the Scottish Steak Club @ Caleys in the Macdonald Windsor Hotel. The good was really good, but the service we got was stellar, especially considering we were a bit under dressed for the ambiance and we has the child with us (who, it must be said, was on his better behaviour. This is even more impressive considering he was up at 4am, all excited about legoland).
Had fun as a family unit. Took lots of pictures over 3 phones and a camera. Went on rides. Got wet (!!!). Ate. Spent mooooney. Bought lego. Day 2 to come.
The owl is knackered and the day hasn’t started yet. Somebody has been awake and manic/bored since 4am.
update: ahhh, English breakfast. Fat and salt in many colours. Perfect cure-all.
At least the child will have been to ye olde sweet shoppe.
Bobble is very excited about his first family holiday in… ever! He took the best seat in the car to not miss a moment of the action. #fomo
Mr Farage said he had “done my bit” following the UK’s referendum vote to leave the EU. He said the party was in a “pretty good place” and said he would not change his mind about quitting as he did after the 2015 general election. Leading UKIP was “tough at times” but “all worth it” said Mr Farage, who is also an MEP. He added that the UK needed a “Brexit prime minister”.
Good jorb guys. Almost every major politician involved in the Brexit cluster fuck has now left the building.
update: Christoph Waltz criticised Mr Farage for not failing to see it through and stand up for what he had been vigorously campaigning for throughout his political career.
“Well, I mean, of course the head rat would leave the sinking ship,” Waltz said in a Sky News video posted to Twitter.
“It’s inevitable, you know. They tried to dress it up as a heroic exit — no, it’s conceding defeat. It’s putting the tail between their legs and as rats do, leave the sinking ship, leave the mess for others to clean up and retreat into some profitable other business,” he continued. “That shows you how despicable these people are that they can’t even stand up for what they caused.”
update 2:David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage have been described as “rats fleeing a sinking ship” following their resignations in the immediate aftermath of Britain’s historic European Union referendum.
Guy Verhofstadt, the former Prime Minister of Belgium, made the comparison the day after Mr Farage resigned as the leader of the UK Independence Party: “The Brexiters do not have a clue what needs to be done. Cameron, Johnson and Farage behave like rats fleeing a sinking ship.”
His unflattering depiction of the three senior British politicians came as Jean-Claude Junker, president of the European Commission, accused the former London mayor Mr Johnson and Mr Farage of quitting when things got difficult. “The Brexit heroes of yesterday are now the sad heroes of today,” Mr Juncker told a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. “Those who have contributed to the situation in the UK have resigned, Johnson, Farage and others. They are as it were retro-nationalists, they are not patriots. Patriots don’t resign when things get difficult, they stay. Instead of developing the plan, they are leaving the boat.”
The same Boris Johnson who spear-headed the Leave campaign and then announced he would not run to lead the country through Brexit when it became apparent things might get a bit tricky.
The former Mayor of London outlined five points he thinks the next leader of the Conservative Party needs to consider when negotiating Brexit, just three days after ruling himself out as the man to do it.
Got a 5k walk/jog in today,with the longest uninterrupted running stretches so far.
Now this! This, is a proper English piece of deep-fried cod goodness. Served with a small mountain of chips. For a fiver.
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