The Empty Mind

What the hell happened over the last couple of days, has the world completely gone off its rocker. After surfing the web last night I was utterly shocked by what I read and listened to, firstly America, the stock market has fallen because of fears of a new recession I don't understand why everyone thinks that there's going to be a recession because I'm not a financial analyst so I can't explain what's happening only that on the web it says that there is going to be one so that's why the market tumbled. There were also two items that I saw about Trumps rally in Atlanta, what a lot of stupid things he said and the main one was that he didn't thank Biden for the prisoner exchange he thanked Putin, what an absolutely foolish thing to say, is Trump losing it or just pretending to be an idiot, it was disgusting what he said about his opponent and Biden as well as other politicians, I honestly can't see him winning the upcoming election if he carries on this wa...

What a day for Ukraine, the long awaited arrival of the F-16s and the hitting of various targets inside Russia, Crimea and various other military targets and inferstructures, I understand that Ukraine is losing both land, equipment and worst of all soldiers on their land but I think now the tide will turn in favour of Ukraine. After so long and so much pleading with the west to help them with air support it has finally arrived, The results of this I think will become obvious within the next week or so and I also think that the main aim will be to use them to get for starters Crimea back and after that who knows? There's not a whole squadron of these planes but for now it'll be a game changer and will help hopefully save Ukrainian lives and slowly put a halt to the advance of the russian hoards in occupied territory. Back on the home front as I wrote an unusual Sunday but everything went ok but now the house is quiet until my wife returns today, it's just my eldest daughter ...

Why do I say it's unusual well I'll explain, ok it's Sunday but a very unusual Sunday. For starters my wife won't be here as she and a colleague from work have gone for a few days to a sort of Wellness center as Monday is a holiday and everyone has a long weekend apart from my son who went back to Zagreb because he has to work on Monday shame but it's not a holiday in Germany so today he will be traveling back to Germany for work tomorrow so he won't be here for Sunday dinner, no wife, no son. My eldest daughter will be at her fiances for dinner so that's another one missing today so unusually it's only my youngest daughter and her fiance and myself for dinner and because my wife's not here I've got to cook poor me,I got up early to prepare dinner so everything is ready just the cooking left, it'll be funny just the three of us sitting down to dinner but that's the way this unusual Sunday is turning out to be. It's only 15 and set to ...

Well after a long pause I'm back to my normal self, accident, tile layer and everything else that has happened in my life the last few days within my family and in the world. The weekend started early with my son coming home on Thursday and going back to work tonight, short but sweet, my youngest daughter and her fiance arrived last night so again for a short time it's a full house and I mean a full house which is great as my wife is going away with one of her friends today for a couple of days as we have a holiday on Monday so it's a long weekend. My son apparently will cook dinner today and tomorrow I'll cook dinner for only three as my wife won't be here and my eldest daughter will be with her fiance, wow what a strange weekend but it's better than nothing with no one here. For me it's great to be able to write again and to get back into my rhythm, I'm not going to touch on the subject of world politics or war, I'm going to try and enjoy this week...

Well I suppose every one knows what that is, it's something you have to do five days a week and get paid for it, as in yesterday's blog my wife and daughter went back to work after their holidays and the house was empty apart from our dogs, it was a bit different to say the least after two weeks with them home but all holidays come to an end and now it's back to working for a living. What do you think if someone stays at home while everyone else goes to work as I do because I receive a pension do you class housework which is normally done by the wife as work or a job, I class it as both now that I have to do it everyday apart from Sunday. A lot of people people ask me what I do and I reply housework and then they laugh, ok if they think it's funny but I don't, now I know what has to be done every day to keep the household shipshape and it's not that easy and I now know what it is like being a housewife so I class what I do every day as a job. Let people laugh bu...

Normality that's what today is, early to rise because my wife and daughter are back in work so as is norm I have to make coffee for my wife before she goes to work, I'm not sure wheather they will be happy to go back to work after two weeks off on holidays but I'll soon find out. The guests left yesterday with a few tears but that's to be expected from my mother in law they arrived back home and she was immediately on the phone to my wife, some things don't change. We heard from our son who was on the way back to Zagreb from Germany, only another few days and he will have a short holiday and of course that includes coming home to see us, by the time we see him it'll be almost three weeks since he was home but he has a job, that pays and that's what's most important. Yesterday my wife and I were on our own as my daughter and her fiance drove our guests back to Osijek and then they went to a local swimming pool for the day, no cooking just eating leftovers...

Why well a couple of reasons, conflicting reviews of the opening ceremony of the Olympics is one, there were some people who didn't enjoy the carrying of the country's flags up the Seine because of it’s Lgb theme or to some thats what it looked like but to me it was all part of the idea for the opening ceremony, well planned and exacuted, it was all part of the show, for myself it was well choreographed, great music, lights and fantastic lighting of the Olympic flame, all in all I trurly enjoyed it. Of course there were some who didn't enjoy it but that's their right as a human being in a free country where there are no restrictions and you live your life as you feel fit. Well let's change the subject to Ukraine who it seems as is the case every day for the last couple of weeks losing ground to the hoard but yesterday was a bit different. There are conflicting reports of a Russian general being captured by Ukrainian special forces as he was visiting the front line, ...