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Spring break
Life isn’t easy for anyone right now, but for Boris Johnson it’s worse than that. Struggling with Brexit and its consequences for months, faced with a formidable variant of Covid-19 which has already pushed him to completely reconfigure the country, the Prime Minister was last week in the north of England to see the extent of the damage caused by a storm and expressing support for the thousands of evacuated families… Enough for us to pass the sponge on the overwhelmed air, the crestfallen look and the disheveled hairstyle? No, obviously.
The goblet of fire
Boris Johnson’s haircut has become a real overwhelming issue for the English in recent months. A few days ago, a reporter even relayed to the Prime Minister his mother’s dismay at the deterioration of her hair situation.. “Tell him that I have a comb at the office and that I go to the hairdresser regularly and wish him a Happy New Year too”, Johnson replied, without convincing his audience, especially on the question of visits to the hairdresser. According to some investigations, it appears that Johnson has not had his hair cut since November 2.
Like a foot
Let’s take the sartorial issue on the bright side. This neon yellow parka from the English environmental agency certainly spares us the sight of a poorly cut suit, while this pair of rubber boots probably dispenses us from seeing a pair of poorly waxed shoes. The boots in question offer us as a bonus the opportunity to recall that the English refer to these shoes by the term “Wellington” or “Wellies”, because the Duke of Wellington was the first to wear it at the beginning of the XIXe century.
By the way
Impossible not to stop on this man in red who enjoys the show. This seems to fit the definition of onlooker. Derived from ancient Occitan, the term designates a “Curious walker of all the street shows and who lingers to watch them”, according to Larousse online. In the literature of the XVIIIe century, the onlooker was opposed to the flâneur. If the latter was necessarily a dreamy but distinguished being, the former was often described as silly and stupid. Obviously, we do not have any information allowing us to say that this man in red corresponds to either of these terms.
Mersey for everything
In the background, we can see the Mersey, which caused the floods. Geographically, this river flowing into the Irish Sea is nevertheless a blessing. Lined with a canal connecting Manchester to the sea, it allowed the industrial development of the region at the end of the 18th century.e century, inspired many songs (including Cross The Mersey Ferry, by Gerry and The Pacemakers, taken over by Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and gave its name to Merseybeat, the musical movement that made Liverpool the most pop city in the world in the 1960s.
