What A Surprise

President Trump told President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday evening that the United States would honor the “One China” policy, reversing his earlier expressions of doubt about the longtime diplomatic understanding and removing a major source of tension between the United States and China since shortly after he was elected.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/


The Chinese government has granted President Trump and his business something they had been seeking for more than a decade: trademark protection for the use of the Trump name in the construction industry.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/17/

In the world of diplomacy, governments do each other favours on a government to government basis. In this 21st century though, the American president also gets a nice little bonus to keep for his very own. Lucky old him.

TV Reception

I was having trouble with the TV reception so I climbed up on the roof to adjust the aerial which was attached to the chimney. I moved the aerial around and my friends down below kept watch on the TV screen.

That's good...
No...
Yeah...
A bit more...
Where you had it just then, that was really good...
No, you missed it...

It was a hopeless task. When I had the aerial firmly braced against the chimney the reception was no good. When the reception was good I was always holding the aerial away from the chimney - but as soon as I moved it back towards the chimney, the reception failed again!

Eventually I got utterly pissed off. I picked up the aerial and hurled into the branches of the tree that grew alongside the house - and up through the chimney came the voices of my friends down below:

"That's it. Perfect. Keep it there..."

So that's where the aerial stayed until I moved on three years later.