Afternoon tea as Brexit judgements made and pipeline planned by environmentalist Trump

Cake at Community Cafe last year

Late start today as not getting to sleep till 4 in the morning. Camilla the sourdough used to start a loaf before lunch and left to rise.

It was afternoon tea and cakes at the monthly Milton Community Cafe, which I organise with J and Sue. After picking up my contingent of the less mobile, we had a reasonable attendance. Janet led paper quilling on the craft table and I ended up playing Dominoes with Tony.

Back after 5pm, the dough had almost doubled so knocked it back and put it in loaf tin and incubator at 25 degC. It took another 2.5 hours to rise before going into the oven. Not much bounce today.

The Supreme Court ruling rapped PM May over the knuckles, stating that Parliament, not Government, would decide on go-ahead for Brexit. A canny PM had already been preparing Bill to go before both Houses of Parliament by Thursday. However, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was put out! The judges also ruled that the devolved parliaments of Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland did not have a voice in treaty decision making.

POTUS Trump declared himself an environmentalist and therefore approved the go-ahead for two contested oil pipelines from Canada to the south of the USA.