Endangered world

I paid a heavy price for eating a spaghetti bolognaise takeaway supper last night. Four hours sleep lost, not from indigestion, but emptying my bladder. I felt terrible when I got up. Kath helped me to make the on-line payment of my outstanding tax bill, which I had been worrying about while awake in the night. I still have to tackle the problem of logging in to my tax account to make this year's declaration. The whole system is about to change as HMRC is pushing everyone to use a third party accountancy app linked to one's tax account. Part of their 'Make tax digital' campaign. It's going to cost tax payers to use the app and create a lot of problems for small businesses and self employed people. I don't yet know how it will affect pensioners, but I sense trouble ahead.

Clare and Kath went to the St David's Hotel spa after breakfast. I went to church, suffering from such a bad night's sleep. I felt tired and stressed out after the service, skipped the coffee and chat, and returned straight home to recover in bed. As Clare and Kath were still out, having a drink and a snack after their spa session, I thought I should prepare the veg for lunch and lay the table. I got in a muddle about cooking paella for lunch, not realising until they got back that they wanted to have a cooked meal later in the day. I gave up in despair and went back to bed again. I slept for a while, had a snack lunch of mackerel fillets and leftover sweet potato chips from last night's takeaway supper, then went for a walk in Llandaff Fields to clear my head.

Clare made a fish pie for supper. I didn't do much for the rest of the day, feeling drained of energy after last night. We watched the first episode of another series of 'The Capture' after supper, about deep fake video, and the politics of national security, with relentless fast paced sound track reflecting the anxiety of the theme, and a whistle blowing female police whistle blower threatened and endangered by a false evidence conspiracy. I found it contrived, melodramatic, a mix of police action thriller and improbable hi-tec sci-fi. Improbable, but maybe not impossible. 

Meanwhile, in the real world the US and Israel continue to batter Iran, and Iran's allies react in ways that are likely to spread the conflict further. There are protests in America and Europe against the illegality of Trump's declaration of war without clear aims, regardless of consequences. His popularity rating at home has slumped. International leaders are expressing concern about the danger of this developing into World War Three.