Lazy day with lilies

Lazy Saturday in Rio – no energy to drive to the hills. The plants received some unwonted attention, I actually started to read the paper on the day it arrived and HH has ‘nearly caught up’ with sorting out his office (mine is still in a parlous state). So now I’m finally going to try to catch up with my blips. 
 
I was irritated, probably unreasonably, but the BBC correspondent in Brazil’s analysis of the political situation here and the ‘achievements’ of the PT (Workers’ Party) government, under Lula and Dilma. I think he has at least partially swallowed the highly doubtful version put out by Dilma and the PT. Lula was widely credited with lifting millions out of poverty, but in fact, he and his party were simultaneously institutionalizing a degree of corruption and graft never before seen in a country with a long history of corrupt government. Their actions have practically bankrupted the country, education, health, public security and practically all public services are in dire straits, inflation and prices are spiralling, and the same people he ‘lifted out of poverty’ are now plunged back into worse poverty, along with the rest of the country. And aiming to perpetuate the advantages to himself and his gang, he appoint Dilma as his successor and pushed for the election of, according to a highly respected financial periodical, 'the most technically unqualified President in Brazil’s history’, since when he has acted as puppet master behind the scenes.
 
Along with vast numbers of Brazilians, we have been glued to the news for the past few weeks. Yesterday’s paper said that audience figures for the national news have even overtaken the massively popular 9 p.m. soap. I’ve always been apolitical, but no longer. And tomorrow I’m planning to take part in another pro-impeachment rally. Just hope it will be peaceful.