Scrapbook for July 2020

28.07.2020 – The Railway Man prince

Since 2018, when Meghan Markle adopted Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor, her rescue prince, she has been feeding him the same healthy vegan fare she enjoys.

We are told that she has a love of 'clean eating' – which seems to involve more than avoiding dribbles – 'juicing' and 'smoothies'. She has an abhorrence of meat.

Our readers, attentive types, will have noticed that her rescue husband's body is becoming more skeletal in each new photograph. His jackets hang emptily on him, their buttons no longer under any strain. Less and less facial flesh is having to stretch ever more tightly over his skull, revealing parting teeth that are about to fall out from malnutrition.

It is no surprise therefore that his judgement is becoming seriously impaired: no man can dine on a few nuts and berries dressed with a thinly sliced grape for long without all capacity for reason deserting him, leaving only tetchy confusion.

12.07.2020 – Eighteen shades of incompetence

— Author: In my recent piece Schubert in da hood I managed to mislay about a dozen images. Just simple incompetence.

A spirit of democracy haunts this site – readers can choose the term they find most appropriate:

ineptitude, ineptness, inability, lack of ability, incapability, incapacity, lack of skill, lack of proficiency, amateurishness, inexpertness, clumsiness, ineffectiveness, inadequacy, deficiency, inefficiency, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, insufficiency

— Readers: All of them.