Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Teresa May and now Boris Johnson have all faced votes of no confidence, so it seems like the order of the day.
Boris is different of course. The others at least had some redeeming features. Love or loathe Thatcher (and those of us who remember her premiership probably fall into one or other of the categories) in many ways she was the leader that we had to have in those dark days.
Major was a much better Prime Minister than was at first thought. Always painted as a "grey and boring type" he was (and is) a highly intelligent and thoughtful man with a definite touch of class. I was never a May fan after her treatment of the Police but again at least she had a touch of class (apart from when she did that stupid Abba Dance at the Tory party conference where she tried and failed to show everyone what a fun person she really was and just showed what an embarrassment she could be).
Boris is a whole new kettle of fish. A liar and a man with a criminal record who is just not fit to run the country. In my mind he will go down as just about the worst prime minister we have had (certainly in living memory). But enough of politics. Let's move on to more pleasant matters.
The Jubilee scarecrow trail in Hethersett raised a whopping £535 to be divided between the village's two Primary schools. That's an excellent result and shows that 267 and a half people took to the trail! Somebody said to me "if the trail maps were £2 each how come an odd amount was raised?" The answer is obviously quite simple. Some people paid more than £2 (or perhaps somebody got away by just paying £1 which I can't believe).
I believe that due to the trail's success it may become an annual event and that would be great.
I thought I would include some photographs in today's blog and so hope you enjoy some of those of Cambridge and Southwold. It was a rather grey day in Cambridge but a much sunnier and warmer one in Southwold. The only problem is that I forgot to charge my camera overnight, so it ran out after just a few photos of Southwold. That's life as they say.