All good things, bar heaven, come to an end and so did this exeat to London and the UK. A final trip to the all day breakfast on Grays Inn Rd, thanks PA, a foray to St. Albans, Holborn, and a few pints at the Lamb and the Rugby followed by a plate of carbonara at Ciao Bella on Lamb's Conduit Street. So tasty.
Then back to LHR, Terminal Three, a total nightmare, and onto a sardine can masquerading as an international flight. I tell you, getting the bus from Victoria to Chepstow in the 1980s was more dignified and comfortable, which isn't saying much.
10 hours later you're back home in the Texas Free State, and that felt good. There's an expansiveness and freedom to Texas which England just doesn't have. That said, it was heart-wrenching to leave the Old Country. Partly because it's my homeland, especially London, and also because of its great beauty and interest. Everywhere you look there's something to stay the eye.
Texas? Yes, the same, but here everything's new, right down to the newly pioneered land of the place, to say nothing of noxious strip malls and the appalling DFW metrosprawl we call a city. Still, good to be home in the free atmos of the Lone Star State. There's air to breathe.
So what's the scoop, the story on the UK? Well, their government's imploding, coffee shops are ludicrously abounding, the Pound is hideously weakening, cigarettes are stupidly pricey as is petrol. Red Bull is cheap, wine is cheap too, but you can't afford to get a house unless you're stupid rich, and... everyone believes in the vaccines, big time.
"Oh, better run off and get my booster," says one quondam anarchist and off xe goes to burn incense on the Altar of Big Pharma Pfizer. Climate Change too; everyone's convinced the Ice Caps are gonna melt and flood Martha's Vineyard in a few years. Quelle serious disaster, go tell the Obamas.
So, globalist agitprop looms large over the Sceptred Isle though they'd call it common sense. Mask up, vax up and toe the NWO line of your elite overlords. That aside, all's normal except for all these ridiculous coffee shops, beer at 4.50 a pint++ and hordes of electric bicycles and scooters in London. Oh, and it's getting hard to pay with cash.
Cash, gentle readers, is being phased out in England. What could possibly go wrong.
Your Expat Pal,
LSP
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I'm glad you're back home. The UK is in a death spiral. Old Blighty will survive, but it will change with fuel prices higher than ever and the government teetering on bankruptcy.
If you hold that conch shell up to your ear you can hear the ocean.
Looked like a terrific trip. Safe travels with no travails.
Thanks for the tour LSP and I'm glad you had a good time over there. How many more poison jabs will the sheeple take before they wake up. Also avoid the flu jab.
God Bless,
still unjabbed in Boston
Years ago my wife and I picked up my brother and his wife at FW-D Airport after their first trip to Germany. He was a civilian missile technician for the Army and did three trips, more than 10 years. When we got outside the terminal, Bill looked up and said, "The sky is so big!" Well, yes. It is Texas. Welcome home, LSP.
Nice one, WSF!
They're in a very precarious situation, LL, never seen anything like it. But you know what they say, go woke, go broke.
Let's see what tomorrow brings. Personally? I'm hoping for an even better GBP/USD rate. Imagine, there we are on the Strand in front of a sadly shuttered Simpson's and the monkey hands over a battered $20 bill, helpful simian, "I shall buy this place."
Thanks, Paul, just a lot of fun. Good to be back though.
Unjabbed here too, Boston. And it's weird, my brother and eldest son had BAD reactions to the devil jab, but the LSP women are fine. Huh, what does this mean?
God bless.
Thank you, Sgt., I appreciate that. Texas has greatness.
"the female of the species is deadlier than the male" and all of Y'all know who said that. Or so I hope.
Good call, Wild!
Of course Chesterton hated Kipling, but perhaps he would've liked this:
She is wedded to convictions -- in default of grosser ties;
Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies! --
He will meet no suave discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild,
Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
What great verse.
Welcome back!
Speaking of everything going insane. Yesterday my wife and I went to a concert at Lincoln Center. You'll be happy to know that all the bathrooms are for "all genders. This restroom may be used by any persons regardless of gender identity or expression."
Truly we live in enlightened times.
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