Six months to brexit without consensus. A sweet homemade distraction

St Apollonia

Six months to go to Brexit this week and Britain continues to subject itself to the indignities of the Conservative and Labour in-fighting. The Prime Minister Theresa May continues her attempt to persuade both the EU, her own party and the general public of the one true path - her Chequers proposal. The EU has already politely pointed out difficulties with it and the hard Brexiteers shout betrayal of the one true brexit.

Helpfully, the government has issued further publications on preparing for Brexit and the dangers of a hard brexit, bringing the total number up to 133. They are listed under the following headings:

• 30 are EU exit regulations
• 103 are Guidance
• 0 are Business advice

Thus clearly emphasizing that whilst we are all ultimately dependent on the UK economy and businesses are crying out for advice re Brexit, their concerns are at the bottom of the list. 

Quite frankly, despite the boyish enthusiasm of our new Brexit Minister and chief negotiator Dominic Raab, we seem to be heading inexorably towards a hard brexit and the application of WTO rules. A painful process to watch, looming ever closer like a dentists appointment for a root canal drilling.

The President across the Pond has shown himself to be a solemn representative of the people when commemorating the anniversary of 9/11, and then deluded when arguing that the release of the final death toll of the Puerto Rican hurricane disaster (3000+) was fake news. The US economy continues to grow despite the heightened trade sanctions of ever more goods from China.

We spent the last weekend first on a trip to London, visiting the Welcome collection and then the British Museum  before celebrating a family birthday. Then on Sunday, we took a walk along the guided busway between Oakington and Longstanton. I'd remembered good blackberrying along part of the route when cycling past on Friday. We picked blackberries and rose-hips and a few crab-apples on the way home, and I prepared crab-apple and bramble jam/cheese and rose-hip jelly.