Snot, whinging, and angerbawls

Cons trying to save furniture in some ridings in final week.

(Image: Glen McGregor via X)

In the 20 years, I have been scribbling Bond there are literally a handful of days when I didn’t write because I was laid up with some illness or other. That’s what makes this past week notorious and why the flu that hit left such a mental mark. Bear in mind, that it hit despite both of us in the house being up-to-date with our vaccinations for flu and COVID. Some of you were kind enough to inquire - your kindness is sincerely appreciated and deeply felt - while the rest of you likely assumed I was swanning off to some sunny clime.

Well, no.

There is something not to be said for spending the week of the federal election debates laid up with the flu, but that was last week Chez Scribbler.

Descended on the weekend, courtesy of pack of children in one co-worker’s home and suddenly a few folks at SWMBO’s work were down with it and she was struggling with a high fever, aches, and all the rest of it. My nursing stint was cut short as the flu came for me last Monday and laid us both low, all told, until this weekend just past. I had my first good night’s sleep Saturday night into Easter Sunday morning.

And that’s when I am banging hard on the keyboard - the desk is made of good, solid wood and hence the house shakes with the impacts, so I am told - to get this Monday offering finished. It’s an election one, so paywalled after the subscription notice.

Wednesday will be the piece originally intended for last Monday. It’s a look at the budget and what it shows of young Andy’s - what’s the right adjective: shallow?, thin?, imaginary? - political legacy, which actually does not resemble anything like the fellating he got last week at the second of three good-byes the fellow will get. None of them will be frank or honest, but then again, that is Newfie politics in the Age of Celebritocracy. This assessment on Wednesday will easily stand out.

Then we are more or less back at it as things were rolling along beforehand.

Think of Bond Papers as a kind of vaccination against the flu of the ordinary news and information you find.