Euphrosene Labon

Friday 19: The temptation to be sarcastic about our Labour government is very strong indeed. But I will resist. Instead I ponder why a luxury car maker should be saved by the taxpayer when there are probably a few more worthy causes. And what about the ecological effects of those big motors with their voracious appetites for petrol?

As for borrowing and spending, words almost fail me. Someday someone will have to pay it all back…. and probably for a very long time.

I can understand the slime and guile of politicians desperate to stay in power. What I fail to understand are the voters. Do they not have a free thinking brain cell between them? Unless they actually enjoy seeing their principles shredded and buried by greed.

Is there somewhere in the world that is free from disharmonious people and their actions? Because I am off there.

Yes, I know I said I would stick by Britain through thick or thin. Trouble is we are governed by thicks (in its other meaning). And then there are the thicks who take living for today to its selfish conclusion. Except there is no ‘conclusion’ in the Great Everything. Their action (and even a non-action is one) will have repercussions for all at some point in time and space.

We must always question. We should also learn to take responsibility - it is one of the fundamentals of spiritual metaphysics. That said, I can understand why it is easier to let others take the strain. Enough. If I have made one person question, that is good.

Meanwhile, my face has to be makeup free and covered in gloop till it heals, but I had to go into Worthing to pay in an unexpected cheque. (Very nice it was too. I think I will definitely take a much needed holiday soon.)

Rather than frightening all and sundry, I put on some mineral makeup which mostly disguised it…. and, guess what? As I was walking towards the bank, a guy got out of his car and smiled at me, saying I had a pretty face. No, he was not wearing glasses nor was he an ancient old crock. He was probably late thirties, tall and not unattractive. So that was two good things in the space of half an hour.

Less happily, I popped in to see Ma on the way back and wondered what was wrong with her room. Then it dawned on me that she had packed everything away, in preparation for ‘leaving’. Because my skin is slightly inflamed, I didn’t go close but she managed to annoy me within one minute with her talk of Alis (sic) … my Scottish prince.

How come my apparent husband is so utterly real to her but not on any known wavelength to me? Quite apart from the fact that I would never call a man ‘Alis’ and still find him fanciable! (I gather it is short for Alistair… but I’ve gone off that too thanks to Campbell and Darling.

Message to Gordon Brown: you cannot be a fighter (or leader) and a victim.

Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer

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Saturday 13/Sunday 14: When Ma asks me to go over, admittedly not that often, I always drop everything and drive there. On Saturday pm, she wanted to me to buy some typewriter ribbon or bring a biro but, having been buffeted by wind and rain and honked by impatient drivers in the process, I was less than inclined to go back out again. Anyway, she sounded so tired, I doubted she would do much of her work. (End of excuse.)

This morning (Sunday), I popped over with 8 biros in an envelope, so she could take one as needed. As I had not had a coffee or breakfast I did not stay long though, truth to tell, my compassion is fading due to her obsession with ‘going home’. She will have her bath in her own home, she says.

Paradoxically, she is aware of enjoying being fussed over and of having her daughters nearby, so it makes the desire to return all the more puzzling. And selfish, as I told her this morning. Why, I asked, can you not think about us for a change?

Meanwhile another puzzle: how come the more we pay public/civil servants, the worse the service? (cf the SATS guy who seems to have got us to fund his sailing club fee and rent, despite earning three times that of the previous guy…)

And the puzzle of Tony Bliar: Christianity requires forgiving and accepting the ‘prodigal son‘. But that man takes prodigality to a whole new level. Apart from the illegal war, his faith means less to him than being taken for a ‘nutter’ if he professed to believe in God.

I hope I have never been ashamed to profess my belief in God.

PS I won yet another Premium Bond this year (thanks - but still not the biggy.)

PPS Priceless comments from Joe Public on various fora about the Strictly Come Dancing farce yesterday. Tom Chambers may have flagged on one dance and been under-choreographed on the other, but he and Austin Healey have been the most consistently entertaining, as well as being good dancers, throughout the entire series. The girls on the other hand lack passion (all those tears turn me off) and rarely kept me watching properly. I belong to the judge-fixing camp… though a final with just those two would have been supremely yawnworthy, however beautiful they are and improved they have become.

Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer

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Thursday 11: On current form, recipients are likely to get this Christmas greetings card from me sometime in the middle of next year. The image looks as I wanted - fine lines and coloured pencils to give it a ‘light’ touch. Unfortunately, the HP prints are rather washed out. And slightly skewif… with a small bend in one corner. Hardly a good advertisement for Wise El merchandise even if it is an interim arrangement. (I will be using a professional printer for bulk runs.) It is frustrating but will have to do for now.

To give my eyes and fingers a rest, I went out to the Woolworths‘ sale. As has been reported, not that much had 50% off but I did get Christmas presents for the little boys (the little girls will have to wait till February). The grown-ups got treats from a more expensive shop of ’stuff’. Even keeping costs down, I always buy on the basis of wanting it for myself. Then, if anyone moans, I’ll just keep it.

All my life I have been a ’soap and hot water’ person, even for my face. Now that routine has been binned in favour of Johnson’s Baby Lotion because a combination of facial lotions and melasma treatments effectively burnt my skin - just under the eyes and around the mouth. It dried and tightened the skin, with water making it even worse. It was a rather horrid forewarning of what really old age might look like.

Anyway, all the harsh potions have been binned, and it is now E45 and Cocoa Butter Formula Scar Serum. Three days on, and at last I can see a slight improvement. Oddly, this regime seems to be helping the melasma too.

PS Had a really daft moment (over two weeks) trying to find a software disk which was not where I usually file that kind of thing. It was driving me to distraction and, as usual, I harassed the Almighty (”You cannot even give me something as simple as that!, I harangued. Yes, that is how I ‘talk’ to my bit of God…)

Today, I got the urge to de-clutter a magazine rack (yes - a magazine rack!!) and there it was, neatly stored in a plastic envelope.

And that’s the thing with my bit of God: I do always get what I ask for, but usually after I have either forgotten or given up on it… which is all contrary to what most modern self-help writers suggest (excluding me, of course!).

A secondary issue is when the goal or desire costs money or is your livelihood. It is very difficult to forget and allow the Almighty to sort it out whenever when the current need is great. Belief has to stay strong.

PPS Precisely HOW has gordon brown ’saved the world’? He (and the rest of those pygmies in the Labour party) live a little too much for today, something Peer Steinbrück remarked on - that Brown is "tossing around billions" and ’saddling a whole generation with a bill for paying off British debt.’

Yes, some of us had noticed.

Oh yes, I finished the Christmas card, and it’s okay for a first effort.

Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer

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