1st January Same old same old


As most Brits are still sound asleep, no longer dreaming of a white Christmas but of a much better New Year, news arriving from New Zealand, where people live in the future and where its been 2023 for absolutly ages, suggests that everything is still ‘pretty shit’

With almost the entire population of earth desperate to see the back of the year 2022, which has officially been voted the 3rd worst year ever after 2020 and 2021,  concerning news reaching Grace Under Pressure's desk from the land of the long white cloud, suggest bugger all has changed.

Local Auckland resident, Jasminda Adeen, spoke exclusively to Grace Under Pressure from 'the future' in what experts understand to be the first virtually true interview of 2023. "Yeah sorry everyone, but judging from the first half of day one of 2023 optimism and hope still haven't been located."

"We've still got the threat of a new Covid variant from China, nuclear war as a result of the Ukraine / Russia kerfuffal and I haven't even mentioned the cost of living or the threat of a global meltdown due to climate change."

"Still on the bright side at least I get to endure all that s%$&e down on the beach in fairly tropical temperatures with a beer in my hand as opposed to the UK with it's new PM every 4 months, the continuing non benefits of Brexit, constant rain  and Mrs Brown's boys on TV on Christmas day. Na thinking about it, it might be the same old shit in a different year, but I'm so glad I'm experiencing it here rather than there!"





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

6th May Olbia

Image
  A chance to stretch our legs today with our first port of call; Olbia, Sardinia. And it was a quick stretch too due to it being only a five hour stay. Up bright and early, so early in fact that the hot food at the buffet wasn't even ready to be served. Still it gave us a chance to watch the ship glide into port past a host of oyster/mussel beds, before performing a 180 degree turn to reverse into it's berth. A couple of short bus rides later and we were in downtown Olbia. But there an hour or so before anything appeared to open, the disadvantage of being early birds and something we don't seem to learn! Not that Olbia had a great deal to see or maybe if we had done the slightest bit of planning beforehand there might have benn but we didn't. It was pleasant enough but that's about it. It was pleasant enough but nothing special, indeed we were back on the ship after just a couple of hours ashore and then managed to sleep away most of th...
Read more

7th May Naples

Image
 I'm sure I've heard the phrase 'see Naples and die' suggesting that it is perhaps not the nicest location in the Mediterranean but if it's good enough for Diego Maradona fir a few years then it's good enough for me for 10 hours. Although the millions of tax free pounds he was paid might have eased his stay. By the time we got up, washed, dressed and up to The Kitchens, the rest of the ship were already there. Compared to the Marie Celeste of yesterday it was absolutely packed, presumably with people having breakfast before heading out on 8am excursions, our excursion was simply going to be the city of Naples itself as possible trips to Vesuvius, Pompei or the Amalfi coast would have been too much / tired.  So on a day when the weather initially seemed uncertain, we jumped aboard route A for the Hop on Hop off bus and headed out into the mayhem that is the Napoli traffic where it was every van, car and scooter for the selves. I think it's bes...
Read more