General Chat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BhPqznXE1Y

'We Londoners knew Johnson would be like this.
He likes the sound and the glory, the bluff and the bluster. He’s not interested in the day to day reality. He doesn’t bother to turn up. He promises the world and delivers worse than nothing. He is the very worst person for this crisis.
Why does no-one listen? Why do we go on and on like this, rewarding those least able to serve us? Will it ever change?
Are we now a country of ignorant masochists?
Meanwhile, all around us, and right this very minute, people are dying.
It is almost unbearable, the suffering at the moment. Not only the deaths which - almost- we are no longer able to compute...But the fear, the danger, especially felt by those who are most disempowered, most vulnerable. Worst, that much of what is going so badly wrong comes from political choices made.
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' Looking at the US many of us have decided that a grown man who acts like a toddler is a bad choice. Here, a lazy, unfaithful liar is performing exactly as past experience suggests. He barely turns up for the work and considers getting through a press conference without giggling a major achievement.

It's a pity extra people have died for no good reason but be sure Johnson does not mind much.
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'London Pride' is also a well-known alcohol drink.

and flower, Noel Coward song and march ;-)

My Dad and his brother had a lot of London Pride in their gardens, interspersed with other flowers. Dad particularly liked, so grew, a lot of roses. <3 <3

Rollo, don't mince yer words, lad! ;-) :-D

My dad also grew London Pride in our garden ..........

........ I think a lot of people grew it back in the 50s and 60s, especially those who had served in WW1 and/or WW2. My dad was in restricted employment, but was also an ARP Warden

They are not my own words just postings by Londoners typical of thousands.

London Pride flowers do not have to be planted they will grow wild especially liking derelict land and bomb sites. Hence the connections in Noel Coward's song. There is also a kind of blackbird called a Redstart . red tail, which is a great singer and also likes waste land and bomb sites. I have often wondered if it was this bird that inspired N.C. It is quite widespread in northern France.

During ww2 UK civilian deaths were a bit over 70 000 of whom 40 000 were down to the London blitz. Nobody inc my rellies ran away. Indeed one was one of the last ww2 Europe fatalties killed Christmas 1945 defusing a UXB.

Current reliable estimate of corona-19 deaths in the UK is 41 000.
Current policies are likely to unleash a worse second wave in the autumn.

'Cockney feet
Mark the beat of history.
Every street
Pins a memory down.
Nothing ever can quite replace
The grace of London Town.'

..... and very easy to use a spade to split the clumps to re-plant elsewhere.