Around the world

 America votes to pollute the North Pole with oil exploration and pump more coal smoke into the atmosphere. They'll also continue to build a big wall to stop poor people getting into their country. Putin will be smiling knowing that another egotistical dictator, like himself, is in charge of the most powerful country in the world. 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy won't be in a good mood this morning. He was counting on 50 billion from the USA. "Damn it, I'm going to use those Storm Shadows, Russia's nuclear arsenal is rusted and rundown anyway" he'll tell his wife. 

Xi Jinping will be thinking about clawing back Manchuria from the Russians and invading Taiwan while the world is distracted looking at America. "Who knows" he muses "might even reopen the Silk Road" and smiles as he sips his tea.

Kim Jong Un will be opening a can of stewed dog for breakfast and counting his earnings from his mercenary army. Maybe Iran needs my help he thinks. He downs another spoonful of dog; the spirit of the beast surges through his body and he feels uplifted.

TC will be sitting on the floor in the dining room wishing he hadn't taken the table to the tip. He offered it to the bull dozer driver but he had declined. "Already got a mahogany, Edwardian claw foot table with reapholstered chairs mate". TC had watched sadly as his white designer near new dining table had gone under the tracks of the huge machine, smashed to pieces.

RBB is standing looking at the grass, already with six inches of growth. If God really loved us he wouldn't make grass grow so fast in the spring he mused. He decides to take his lawn mower to the repair shop however. A pavng stone had bent a blade back 90 degrees on Tuesday.