Debates on Parenthood and major disappointments for Trump and UK

The seasonal benefits of a tree, seen in a playground in Pedro Bernardo

Sun 26th March. Chilly weather and continuing evidence that the rain might fall mainly on the plain but it also falls heavily on the hills. An earlier lunch (aperitif, salad & roast lamb by aunt, roast potatoes by me, green beans by my mother and cocktails by uncle) ran until quarter to six. This was due to the increasingly animated arguments on whether children needed a married couple for a real home, followed in decreasing rank by cohabiting couples (mixed sex), cohabiting couples (gay) and then single parents. Whilst I was at the losing end of sticking up for modern rights, I was amused and vindicated by the follow-up tales of apparently happy families and their skeletons rattling in the closets. 

President Trump and the Republican party were licking their respective wounds today. His characteristic tweet being: 

'Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & Ocare!' 

The UK is now on is way to triggering article 50. Excellent and chilling Observer editorial here on the erosion of UK democracy brought on by Brexit, rather than a rebirth: 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/26/observer-editorial-triggering-of-article-50-jeopardises-60-years-of-unparalleled-peace?CMP=share_btn_fb. 

And also this interview by Die Zeit with Cambridge'a British Germanist Nicholas Boyle, which baldly states that the English have never been able to see others as equals, and how this impinges on the relatiionship with Scotland and the EU: 

http://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2017-03/brexit-grossbritannien-referendum-theresa-may-eu?utm_content=zeitde_redpost_zon_link_sf&utm_campaign=ref&utm_source=facebook_zonaudev_int&utm_term=facebook_zonaudev_int&utm_medium=sm&wt_zmc=sm.int.zonaudev.facebook.ref.zeitde.redpost_zon.link.sf