MH17 and Russian incompetence

A few years ago, after the destruction of MH17, I made a post on my blog. My first post was in 2014 and I posted an update the following year.  But one question remained to me.  How could the operators mistake a civilian airliner for a military plane?  Civilian airliners have been destroyed before, and example being Iran Air 655 when a very stupid decision made in the heat of battle, but when it came to MH17, no battle was taking place. 

 

The answer appears to be incompetence. We have seen during Putins War that too many Russian troops have been poorly equipped and badly trained.  We can only imagine if the crew and passengers would be alive if the crew had been properly trained.

3022

Well that was a depressing film!  I liked it, though it did not score well on Amazon Prime (which reminds me, I must rate it).  I do like some darker films and I doubt that anyone else at home would have wanted to watch a film that was so bleak.  If you want to watch the film, do not watch the trailer which gives away a lot of it.  Too much in fact.   

As for the rest of us, we have been taking it a bit easy today.  I have watched some Grey's Anatomy with my son, though I did not learn anything this time.  He does not seem to mind my commentary, though I am shocked (no pun intended) that they attempt to defibrillate asystole.  

I did get to use the water guns that I had bought earlier this month.  My daughter and I had a fight, sadly, my son got caught in the crossfire.  We had washed Leia, but she decided to shoot her anyway.  Though with the heat, she dried out very quickly.  I suspect that she will be used as target practice again this summer...

The Princess Diaries

I cannot believe that I forgot to mention in the blog that my son and I watched this on the weekend!  My wife and daughter were with us for the start, but both left for different reasons.  It was an enjoyable film.  Predictable with no real surprises, but it was great to see Mary Poppins back on screen again.  This is not a film I would take time out to watch again, nor would I have wanted to pay to watch in the cinema, but I am still glad that I watched this feelgood film and also am glad that I watched it with my son.  Though I have to admit, I forgot to ask him what he thought of it!  

As for today, I thought that I had been banned from Twitter when I was not able to make a post.  Later on, I found out that this appeared to be a system error.  Makes no difference to PMQ's later today as I have a work meeting when it is on, so I will miss it.  I doubt that it will be very interesting as Boris Johnson is to leave office and from the way it looks, we may be getting our first non-white Prime Minister!

To iron or not to iron

Yesterday, my wife went to her mothers and took my daughter with her. It had been an eventful day with a lost set of car keys as well as the heat. While they were away, I got a message from my daughter that she was reading my blog! Apparently, she likes the way I talk about her and my son on it, though she did say I have been nicer about them on the blog than I have been in real life! I am not sure if she has read my previous one however (I may one day put the posts on here).

This meant that I got to spend time with my son and our dog.  Despite the heat, Leia was keen to play fetch in the back garden with a ball, and later in the evening was looking at me with the "When are you take me on my walk" look.  My son and I have watched things together, though he got fed up waiting for me with Friends.  He managed to convince me to watch Grey's Anatomy.  I am fussy with medical drama's and I was a bit annoyed that this one was inaccurate at times.  Overall though, it appeared to get most things correct and I even learned something through watching one of the episodes.  I think that he liked watching it with me, and I know I loved spending time with him.  I did the ironing while this was going on, ironing some of his shirts, but I was not able to find his trousers.

We found them this morning though, they were still in the washing machine.  He had washed them, but had not taken them out and this morning was trying to dry them with a hair dryer.  With this heat, if he had taken them out last night, they would have been dry, and also, ironed.  Saying that, I do expect them to be dry by now, and in fact may have been dry by the time he got to school in them.  

Leave means leave

Not my title, but that of Dawn French.  I, like many in the nation, am not happy that Boris Johnson is still Prime Minister.  Rumours are present that he is because he has no where else to move to or that it is because he wanted his wedding party (a legal one this time) to be at Chequers.  The fact is though, that the man who has made numerous incompetent decisions is to remain in power for a bit longer.  

I was concerned that as he had not approached the Queen about this, that this would mean that he had no intention of resigning, but apparently, he has communicated his decision to the head of our state.  I suspect that there will be more controversy to come out before he leaves.  While the Conservatives are promising a new era in politics, they backed the serial liar who has caused us to have the 4th highest death rate due to COVID in Western Europe. 

Hot in the city

Wow! What a day. One child went to a sleep over last night and the other had an argument which carried over to today. That had to be resolved and that was an emotionally draining conversation.  Fortunately that appeared to resolve matters which was just as well as my wife and I met up with Lyndsay and Nick for drinks in the sun and food.

Getting back, we chilled and I took the dog out. It has been a sunny day and the aroma of barbecue’s was in many places, as was singing from a silent disco (how can anyone not sing to Mr Brightside) and later on the walk, music itself from another party.

Now to try to sleep…

An interesting view on PMQ's

This is an interesting video on PMQ's.  Not sure that many Conservatives will agree with it.  To be fair to Boris Johnson, his ability to communicate won him two elections to be London Mayor, one when there was a backlash against Labour, but the impressive victory he had was the second election during the coalition years.  Also his simple messages got him to win his huge victory in the general election of 2019, and while Corbyn was a factor in the sale of the win, his ability to get his message (or lies) across cannot be understated.