Oscillating between anxiety about paying bills (unwarranted because I can afford them) and reassuring myself that Big New Plans are panning out as I wanted, just slowly. Which I also expected.
Fact
Today I found out that Canada could’ve joined the nukes club at the start of the Cold War but chose not to, unlike the UK, which should’ve made the same decision.
As a Brit in Canada, this whole Trump Tariffs insanity is sounding very much like Brexit - the triumph of deluded bigotry over the mutual benefits of trade and compromise.
Alistair Campbell on TRIP: “I don’t consider myself part of The Establishment”
Also Alistair Campbell on TRIP: “As I was saying to Al Gore…”
Trying to file the current lunacy south of the border as some half arsed mafia state rather than the demise of a country I used to think of the least bad option for a world power. But sometimes things get close to home… like POTUS cancelling all government funded clinical research. I mean. WTAF.
Talking to a friend in the UK today and realised I’m actually used to -5c being ‘warm’. This is what two months in Canada does to a Brit….
Turns out going to the pub to watch jazz and get drunk with your partner is a very nice way to spend Sunday afternoon
The Paramount version of Le Bureau (The Agency) doesnt have the panache and elan and sheer … Frenchness …of the original.
A lot of Canada so far has been white snowy parking lots at night hard cut with near-empty zombie mall stores.