Baking Bread and "Trussssst in Mee" Brexit bill future

Baking bread, justifying handcuffing  a 5 year old American returning home, The Brexit Bill debate.

Finally caught up with cleaning out email in tray for the past five days and  progressed onto the artists website. a tedious job of html tables for CV information - work still in progress. J had formatted  another piece of museum work and we sat down for an hour to finalise the order of headings, subheadings and subsubheadings consistently throughout the text.

The Lievito Madre culture (named Camilla) is now routinely on the go in the fridge. It is supposed to be fed every 5 days but mine is particularly vigorous. It was therefore fortunate that we were running out of bread at day 4.

I set up a new loaf and placed some fed culture back into the fridge. The bread dough was still supplemented with dried bakers yeast , so first rise after an hour and then about 75 minutes in the tin, before baking for 10 minutes at 260 degC, followed by 35 minutes at 180 degC.

Nice bounce in the half and half wholemeal/white loaf with pumpkin-, sunflower- and sesame-seed.

Well, I'd managed to avoid the news till the afternoon.

The Trump immigration saga continued to bubble along nicely. Fortunately, a suspicious proto-terrorist, also known as a five year old American boy, had been identified as a potential immigration risk and handcuffed. Trump's press secretary was unrepentant, saying “To assume that just because of someone’s age and gender that they don’t pose a threat would be misguided and wrong.”

According to Der Spiegel, IS is delighted with the propaganda tool given to them and even our Home Secretary Amber Rudd called the president's move "divisive" and "wrong". The EU's Donald Tusk has in turn identified the US as a potential danger to Europe.

Moving away from a president making executive decisions and interpreting the law through his firing and hiring, today Britain was responding to the Supreme Court's verdict that Parliament was supreme A case of no man or government being above the law. The remarkably short bill under discussion was 'The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017'.

Pro-Europeans Conservative Ken Clarke and Liberal Nick Clegg gave passionate speeches against the bill. Pro-Brexit John Redwood and Michael Gove were equally convinced of their arguments. And this debate is to be completed in the next couple of days, despite the lack of the promised white paper on how the Government planned to proceed. However, with the Labour leader Jeremy Corbin laying down a three line whip to pass the bill, it currently looks as if approval of the bill is inevitable.

Then we enter the Jungle Book period of Brexit negotiations by our Government with the rest of the EU .We just have to believe it when they say "Trussssst in meee".