Mystic Jelltex returns

2017 promises to be a year of great change for me. My current project is due to be completed by the middle of the year, and as yet, I have not been told what my role will be after that point. Probably will be put onto another project, but maybe not. So, every couple of weeks, I press my boss for news, and he says there is no news. I do hope not to have to travel so much until the end of the project, I should be able to admister from home, or at least cut down on travel to every other week. But we shall see.

I can tell you when it does come to an end, we and the family will miss the duty free and Belgian beer.

We have two major holidays planned, and we are very excited about both, because as well as the trips themselves, on each we will get to meet an online friend on each. Or that is the plan. Anyway, in May we are traveling by sleeper train to Scotland, then renting a cottage on the Isle of Skye. And joining us on that trip is a friend from New Zealand who is flying over and then staying with us in a cottage. It will be exciting to say the least, and as the weeks go on we are planning more and more stuff and things to do.

Then in August, we fly into Colorado for a two week holiday in Wyoming, visiting a couple of National Parks, and then in the second week hopefully seeing a total eclipse; the main reason for us going. I don't think other than book our accommodation, we have begun to think about that trip too much so far. But we will also be able to visit my oldest on-line friend with whom I have been writing to since 2001! Even writing that down brings home how long we have been friends.

There will be orchids, and butterflies, and churches and other stuff to go out, see and photograph.

As for the rest of the world, whatever Brexit is going to bring will become clearer before the end of March, and maybe reality will reign in its excesses. Or not, who knows. Maybe the reality of the incredibly weak hand Britain has with the EU27 will strike home, or bluster and lies will continue. Something will happen, or it might just fade away as it becomes clear that the whole thing was every bit as difficult and expensive as the so called project fear said. Experts, eh? Turns out they really do know what they're talking about.

In the US, I am convinced that Trump will be impeached, or that there will be an effort to make that happen. Will he be the disaster that many predict? Maybe, maybe worse. Somebody who cannot string rational sentences together, muster facts for a debate is clearly no Presidential material. And yet he was voted for. That he mocked the disabled, was racist, lied, made fun of the parents of a dead soldier, produced no facts to support his cause, the media for the most part let him have a free pass, and so now the US and the world will have to deal with the consequences. A president elect that sides with the Russian President rather than the FBI is not a good start. But we could be wrong.

In the end, people still voted for Trump despite the things he did and said. Fox gave him blanket coverage. Like Brexit, when Trump fails, it won't be his fault, it will be his opponents, of the Liberal Media talking him and the USA down. He could never be wrong, just as the Brexiteers could not be wrong either. And nothing is ever their fault. They had the idea, just need the experts who they belittled make their idea happen. And when it fails, blame the experts.

Welcome to 2017.