Today has been super hot and humid, it feels as
though we are building for a thunderstorm. First of all apologies for the
quality of yesterday’s blog, I think that it was twofold; I started too late
and was feeling the effect of jet lag. Shelter Island is now much quieter, the
houses around us have been shuttered and the owners have returned to the city.
It is easy to park and when we caught the ferry this morning there was no
queue.
Shelter Island is an atypical version of small town
America. It is not ethnically diverse and the median income must be quite high.
I have been reading the Shelter Island Reporter, which is the sort of paper
that might feature on Have I got News for You. Lead story, the third plane
crash of the summer at the local airstrip, all involving pilots over the age of
eighty, well nobody was able to say that they were not experienced. What I
could not understand was that the latest crash involved a two-seater plane and
the pilot was criticised for taking a passenger, surely that is what the second
seat is for!!! Other than that the crime page was revealing, there was the case
of the fisherman taking clams out of season, children under the age of 12 not
wearing lifejackets on the water, you get the picture. The political issue was
the quality of the water in the local pond, somebody had taken a bottle to the
council meeting and challenged the councillors to drink it. Political theatre
the paper screamed, while it remained unclear whether the water was drunk or
merely put to the lips. I suppose that is similar to inhale or not inhale.
When we went out for dinner yesterday we had to wait
at the bar and had a shocking conversation, by European standards. There was
the inevitable picture of Donald Trump on the TV, the guy next to us then
eulogised him saying and I quote “at least you know when he is blowing smoke up
your ass”. To us this is an anathema, Donald Trump makes David Cameron seem a
principled hardworking politician. How on earth is he a serious candidate, while
I suppose we said that about Ronald Reagan and look what happened there. I
shall leave it to our friends Karin and Rob to explain that to us, and why by
2020 we might see Prime Minister Corbyn meeting President Sanders.
For lighter relief here is a photo taken from the
North Ferry this afternoon.
The view looks lovely - I am in great anticipation for our weekend with you both! However, I must warn you that you might be disappointed if you are looking for discussion about Trump, at least from me. Once I heard his misogynistic remarks, very early on, I stopped listening. I hope to do my part on Bernie, my main man, of course.
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