Milk Chocolate and Old News Confirmed re Brexit and Wiretapping

As Jane says, the "Saga of the Fruit Pastilles" continues, this time using milk chocolate. The mental battle is now on to retain enough of these to use as a gift later in the week.

Visited textile artist Heidi Lichterman this morning. In-between discovering her magical chocolate saucepan and finalising the new website (going live next month), we had fun expanding our vocabulary of descriptive colours and shades for her beautiful silk scarves.

Prime Mister Theresa May has been letting us know that she would be initiating Article 50 at the end of the month. It was therefore a total surprise and therefore eminently newsworthy, when she declared that she would invoke Article 50 on the 29th March, 2017. Not sure I can stand the tension until the fateful surprise announcement next week.

The other anticlimax of the day was FBI Director Comey appearing in front of the House Intelligence Committee and a) confirming that the FBI was indeed investigating possible links between the Trump campaign team and the Russians and b) That there was no evidence that  former president, Barak Obama ordered, or even could order, a wiretap of Trump Tower or the current President Trump. This was underlined by National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers who also confirmed that accusing the British intelligence Service at GCHQ was not actually a constructive move, apart from being factually false.

It is a very effective distraction from the actual progress of the Government with its healthcare bill reforms and proposed budget. In the meantime, Trump goes to Kentucky to relive his campaign and bask in the reassuring warmth of supporters, ignoring the heat in the White House kitchen.