No tele-marketing wake-up call this morning and in fact nothing all day. So that's a big fat thumbs up for the first of the new month, brought sharply down to Earth with the Huff Post article reminding us of the looming corporate Armageddon that is TPP / TTIP and the real aim being the circumveting of due process to make democracy redundant and is all slaves to the free market and global corporate totalitarianism

That taken with the usual mental shrug it was time to take a hike up the hill to see my doctor re my body which beligerently defies all my efforts to stave off the onset of oldersterism.