Big success today – I managed to get myself on the delivery schedule of the local milkman. Up to now we had been told that the delivery routes were full, but they seem to have found a few extra places. So that should be me fixed for fresh milk and bread.
Tried out my new diamond cutter today on a bottle – sliced through the glass really easily. So now I have two tealight holders made out of green glass. Actually when I say my new diamond cutter I mean the one I bought to work on these bottles ages ago but never got round to using. I also made two new candle making kits and a necklace. I really might manage to get a few things off my to do list…
I listened to a lot of the questions yesterday and today from the press as they tried to work out who would make decisions. Odd that they are all political correspondents but don’t seem to know much about how government works. The idea of consensus seems to be really strange to people. All they could think about was who should decide which argument should win if there was a disagreement.
When I was working in Vienna consensus was at the heart of what we did in committees. The chair does not decide anything (or at least should not). The job of the chair is to lead the committee to a conclusion. It didn’t mean a vote with a winner and a loser, it meant finding a way forward that nobody in the committee found they had to say no to. At worst people would say “I don’t agree but I can live with that”. A good chair would find a way to get this consensus.
It was an eye opener listening to the press that had to focus on disagreement being solved by winners and losers – the idea of consensus seemed to be something they found hard to understand. Thinking about it, the Great Toilet Roll Rush of 2020 was a good demonstration of a lack of consensus. Consensus would have meant everybody getting some Toilet Roll.
Talking of toilet roll, it looks like it is now back in stock. Anti-bacterial soap and hand gel are still in short supply though. Forgot to put the electric wire up today though. Hope my hand gel survives the night.