£16.19 and Tiny Funerals

Base things that we have now been reduced to: Not quite so crazy pricey times and shortages as we've known in the past but this is what £16.19 worth of prime stock petrol looks like (10 of your UK litres). Except you can't see it at all because it's in a plastic can. The reason it's in a plastic carrier can (that's not an actual jerry can) is so that I can use it to power my faux electric lawn mower or perhaps a hybrid motor vehicle. These things are all the rage out here in the backwoods. 

Yes. It is getting very close to the grass cutting and shooting season. I face facts. The guys in the comic below want to eat the rich -  but shoot them first I suppose. I'm uncomfortable with that idea though they may have point about a few wider issues. But shouldn't could  be couldn't  in the word balloon? Maybe it's a "more hip" slang take on other regular slang and I'm missing it. It would be nice to use a word like vernacular here but I'm just not sure how to. I can't keep up.

 

In the garden we have this lovely bush that goes crazy with huge blossoms at this time of year but they very quickly get obliterated by the mad March and angry April winds. It happens every year and nature doesn't seem to learn. I makes me sad and annoyed but never unemployed. I have to pick up the fallen blossom and give them all a series of quiet, tiny funerals.