Could have been different

Why did nobody tell me, when I was in careers talks in school, that I could be a food historian?

I would have loved that. Although when I was in school I hated history so it probably wouldn't have made much difference. I wonder if they had food historians in those days. Openings would have been limited I suppose and I'd have to have been very good, and I was never very good at anything.

I was in the top set but nothing special. I sort of scraped through most things, as I continued to do through life. Reasonable but not brilliant. I would have liked to have been brilliant.

But I was the clever one while my cousin was the pretty one. I would rather have been pretty.

Nevertheless, my life has turned out excellently. I am very happy. (Odd depressed days excluded of course - although as someone said, "If you don't have the bad you can't appreciate the good.")

Speaking of good I saw this excellent poster the other day.

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An email this morning from my MP after I emailed him to tell him I was going to leave the Labour Party. It looks like a personal email suggesting that yesterday evening he was sitting sobbing over my resignation, so obviously it was carefully drafted.

He does offer to meet me (for 45 minutes) if I'd like to properly talk. 

I won't take him up on that. The time to talk was when he should have been supporting Sir Keir Starmer. Also, he's a smooth-talking politician and I am useless in face to face conversations so would end up signing over my life savings, or buying him lunch.