Not a day as I’d planned, admittedly. Poor Dawn went down with a migraine yesterday. It’s floored her so she’s spent the best part of 24 hours confined to bed. So, I’ve stayed home and put on my nurses and Chef’s uniforms. Not an image to conjure with – honestly!

There’s always plenty for me to do at home with a mix of work and household chores. Admittedly, I’m starting to chafe at the lack of exercise due to being restricted by events, including my elbow playing up, but c’est la vie. One thing I did manage to complete yesterday was judging the shortlist for the Community Rail Awards photographic competition. It was tough going as there were so many good photographs but I’ve whittled them down to a personal shortlist of 10. Next week myself and my fellow judge will hammer out the final shortlist. The 10 we agree on will then go on to a public vote next year. It’s always a pleasure to judge the competition as the pictures really are a great snapshot of the years varied activities around the community rail network. With all the crap that’s going on in the world right now they project a ray of hope.

The downside of being at home is that I have time to follow what’s going on in the UK political arena, which is an absolute shit-show when it comes to the Government who’ve completely lost any semblance of a plot. Yesterday I blogged about the latest Sunak con about potholes. Whilst I was doing that he was busy setting another – even bigger – trap for himself over Rwanda and the asinine slogan ‘stop the boats’, which he can’t. Instead of taking the Supreme Court ruling on the chin he’s blustered and pretended he’s going to pass legislation to ‘solve’ the problem. Apparently, with a wave of a legislative wand, Rwanda can become a ‘safe’ country and he can ignore the ECHR and international treaties. It’s utter bollocks of course. There simply isn’t time to get such legislation through both Houses of Parliament before he has to call the next general election and those international treaties (such as the Good Friday Agreement) are not going to go away and will be enforced by the international community. But Sunak has form for not thinking things through and for listening to the mad ideas of the swivel-eyed loons of Tufton St. Just look at his disastrous decision on HS2 which is also going to blow up in his face.

Honestly, how on earth has this country sunk so low?

Right, time to go. Tomorrow’s another day. Dawn’s starting to feel better so I’m off to spend some quality time together. I’ll leave you with today’s picture which is – oh, hang on – I’d not thought of one, shit! A quick trawl through the pictures that are on my laptop has found this. I run a ‘mystery stations’ competition on Twitter and this was a recent picture. Do you know where this station is? Some people did, but not many…

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