This morning, the US North Korea rhetoric continued with President Donald Trump warning on Twitter that "Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded, hopefully Kim Jong Un will find another path!" China's state run Global Times Newspaper stated that China should remain neutral if North Korea attacked the US first, but "If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so."
In surely an ironic twist of fate, today a criminal gang was sentenced for converting a hidden nuclear bunker near Tisbury into a live-in cannabis factory. The inappropriate moral of the tale is, if someone blows up your world, just sit back and blow your mind.
UK Brexit news is subdued background chatter at the moment. The big outrage being the release of the exorbitant travel expenses of Juncker and other EU officials, £500,000 for two months. Other EU related news is the presence of 700,000 eggs or egg products from the Netherlands in the UK containing Fipronil, a flea killer which was not to be used on animals and birds for human consumption.
Today the sun shone on an early rising for the annual A14 Riverboat trip. 25 of us climbed into Chris Morgan's boats and set off upriver under a blue sky. There is a small tradition growing on these trips, - A solitary rude and objectionable boat owner at the Hemingford Lock. Very uncharacteristic as boat trips are by themselves a relaxing activity and the vast majority of fellow travellers are friendly and easy going. Today, I was at the receiving end, whilst getting ready to take a picture on the middle of the path across the lock gates. But I was less affected than I might have been. The reason? The retired canal boat owner had embarrassingly bumped his boat whilst trying to enter the lock, in full view of all the other boat owners. I think that a major part was just letting off steam. It was soon forgotten as we dined on Frank Boddy's excellent Brunch and eventually sailed back as a cheerful crowd.
The photo's from the trip are online here: https://goo.gl/photos/rokpEiFdpbAZ5g977
Back at St Ives, I went to the Norris and spent the rest of the afternoon helping out at the Friday play activities as groups of parents and young children came in waves.
This evening, Jane was cooking a lamb mince sauce, which inspired me to take out the first of eight different packets of flour from Ulli that had arrived yesterday or the day before as an unexpected package. I used the Italian Pasta/Pizza flour to make egg pasta according to my Pasta cookery book. It took a bit longer than expected included the surprise of a double yolker in one of the two eggs I used. I eventually cut fettucine strips (4mm width). Half was boiled briefly to go with the mince sauce, the reminder is currently air drying in the kitchen.
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