24 hours apart. Friday morning leaving London v Saturday morning at home. Same blue sky and temperature and only a few degrees less here due to the fresh easterly draft blowing in both locations this week.
There no place like home 🏡 💚 🌳
@EasyPeasy_3 Didn’t write a bad symphony in my book. Love them all and tend to listen to them in sequence when flying to calm my overactive brain. ❤️ Sibelius.
@EasyPeasy_3@LadyHelene1967 I’m so glad that @LadyHelene1967 is back on cooking form. I was not enjoying pictures of your cooking quite as much as I enjoy photos of hers! 😉
In the airport ready to fly from Inverness to London for tomorrow’s induction for the new Royal College of Pharmacy. Had to scrape the ice off the car in Brora but it’s a lovely morning here in Inverness. Hope it’s as nice in the far south. 😎
Cupar to Edinburgh for @CPharmacyScot board meeting. It looks better than it is weather wise. Very cold wind and rain clouds around. Good to see a bit of blue sky though
This is genuinely extraordinary: https://t.co/bCioDPpxC4
Speaking is General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
He says that the UK "should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is."
He goes on: "Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY [the emphasis is his] clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy." He predicts that "this thing is going to go south very, very quickly."
He highlights in particular just how foolish it was to kill Ayatollah Khamenei: "The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable."
Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.
How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.