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Prime Minister Theresa May gave her keynote speech in Florence today, a former European financial centre in the Middle Ages. The tone was positive about Britain's relationship with Europe. It asked for a two year transition period where the UK would stick to EU rules and freedom of movement. However EU immigrants would need to register, and the UK would not have a say in the EU anymore.
With another aspirational speech low on actual facts, the response was mixed and depended on your original position on Brexit. EU negotiator Michel Barnier welcomed the positive tone, but he and President Macron of France wanted more facts on the table. Labour saw it as a retreat to a position they had proposed. Hard Brexiteers like Nigel Farage saw it as a betrayal of Brexit voters. Commentators in Der Spiegel and the Guardian online viewed it as cherry picking or still wanting to have your cake and eating it. Personally, I just hope it injects a note of realism in the next round of talks in the coming week.
Our turn to cook today with Jane making a fish pie whilst I bashed away and dismantled a rotting set of shelves in the garden. It had been crafted with a high degree of originality and recycling of available material, including curved chair legs. I uncovered a soft ball-like small mammals nest with its midden of empty hazelnut shells and rescued a large leopard slug, recorded it for inaturalist and set it free on the compost heap. A peacock butterfly lazily flapped its way through the open shed door, meandered silently to a dark corner, folded its wings and merged with the gloom. The first sign of autumn on the day of the equinox.
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