Bit slow off the starting blocks this morning – Kitty jumped all over us at 4am as the local fox must have been nosing around the path behind our back garden. With a surname like ours, perhaps she thinks she’s also a guard dog-cum-cat?

After defrosting a freezer we went to our local shops 5 minutes walk away and were pleased to find the long-closed greengrocery had re-opened. Great to be able to get better fruit and veg in dedicated shop instead of over-priced, poorer quality food in supermarkets. (We’d take a weekly drive to nearby towns for visiting their greengrocer.)

Upon return and winding up the PC it was time to catch up on daily digital mail. Cartoons have always caught my eye. So first was Kenny T’s Morning Story and (vintage) Dilbert and today’s Three Brothers was so very appropriate as a modern version of the parable of the talents and initiative.

Couldn’t help but respond with a comment and, whilst I jotted it, Nina called, “Coffee’s ready”. We treated ourselves to very light and tasty Danish apricot pasties – also known as; ‘yum-4my-tum’!  I don’t always get a daily paper but, on impulse, used a voucher for the Telegraph. Naturally it’s front page cartoon first – and Matt brings hilarity, as ever!

With coffee and munch I flick-scan the newspaper’s contents and am AMAZED to find that last night they covered my main topic of yesterday’s blog, as you’ll see from copy below, or read digital version with comments here.:

Readers who enjoy mulling over pundits’ points will appreciate Melanie Phillips’ recent remarks in her blog’s post, The Mutt and Jeff of the Obama Administration.

Should your preference be for a scholarly approach, try Raymond Stock’s consideration of the Obama-Morsi connection in the Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Notes, On Mistaking Mohamed Mursi for His Mask.  A famous, fatuous remark by the American president opens the topic, suggesting many experts’ suspicious misgivings have been well-founded! (For a brief intro see my next post on lunch with Raymond Stock.)

It may all be of serious concern not only here but also to our brothers and sisters over the pond and in the Middle-East…