I literally just took my copy of Pepys down off the shelf half an hour before I opened this blog! Freaky. I started reading it in lockdown and got 75% of the way through before losing the rhythm of reading it (I tend to have about half a dozen books theoretically on the go at once, stacked up on the table next to the sofa, each with its own book equivalent of dietary balance. Would You Rather is on there, as there as there a while when we’d read a few pages together every night; have gotten out of the habit with the natural shifts of family life but its time will come again). I started reading Pepys from a combination of Home Education (an element of our approach was that I’d read up on more sophisticated information than the kids would get through childrens’ library books, then filter down the interesting bits to them), and the fact that it overlaps with the timeline of Dumas’ Musketeer books. I was delighted by the fact that Pepys was present at the coronation of Charles II, alongside, as it were, d’Artagnan and Athos. (Appros of barely anything, have you come across the Black Count, Richard? It’s the staggering biography of Alex Dumas, father of the novelist, who was a black General in Napoleon’s army. Some of it reads like a Sharpe novel, and shows how his father was the inspiration for musketeers, embodying in himself the core qualities of the four heroes: the intelligence of Aramis, strength of Porthos, the derring do of d’Artagnan and noble spirit of Athos. His exploits are recorded in official reports: Napoleon himself related how, during a conflict in 1797, General Dumas ‘held a bridge alone for many minutes’ against a squadron of enemy cavalry; when reinforcements arrived Dumas continued to pursue the retreating Austrians for nearly 10 miles despite ‘bleeding from arm, thigh and head’.
Remember when people flipped out that Clinton may have smoked a joint? Or Dan Quayle was laughed out of town for mis-spelling potato? Happy days
Though it’s odd, I get why Biden did the Fauci pre-pardon pardon.
Because Trump’s troops would basically try to take him to the gallows otherwise (like the JanSixers tried to with Pence).
What cheers me up is that one day humanity will go extinct and none of this will matter.
Hitchin, Herts. HH. Coincidence??
I literally just took my copy of Pepys down off the shelf half an hour before I opened this blog! Freaky. I started reading it in lockdown and got 75% of the way through before losing the rhythm of reading it (I tend to have about half a dozen books theoretically on the go at once, stacked up on the table next to the sofa, each with its own book equivalent of dietary balance. Would You Rather is on there, as there as there a while when we’d read a few pages together every night; have gotten out of the habit with the natural shifts of family life but its time will come again). I started reading Pepys from a combination of Home Education (an element of our approach was that I’d read up on more sophisticated information than the kids would get through childrens’ library books, then filter down the interesting bits to them), and the fact that it overlaps with the timeline of Dumas’ Musketeer books. I was delighted by the fact that Pepys was present at the coronation of Charles II, alongside, as it were, d’Artagnan and Athos. (Appros of barely anything, have you come across the Black Count, Richard? It’s the staggering biography of Alex Dumas, father of the novelist, who was a black General in Napoleon’s army. Some of it reads like a Sharpe novel, and shows how his father was the inspiration for musketeers, embodying in himself the core qualities of the four heroes: the intelligence of Aramis, strength of Porthos, the derring do of d’Artagnan and noble spirit of Athos. His exploits are recorded in official reports: Napoleon himself related how, during a conflict in 1797, General Dumas ‘held a bridge alone for many minutes’ against a squadron of enemy cavalry; when reinforcements arrived Dumas continued to pursue the retreating Austrians for nearly 10 miles despite ‘bleeding from arm, thigh and head’.
Trump has pardoned 1500 violent thugs what Biden did was nowhere near as bad.
The whole thing is nuts. No one should be above the law but in the USA the president and their families and friends are.