You’ll forgive me for using a French term here, I’m sure!
I will concede though that only last month I was banging on about my ‘All Things Modica’ Facebook page. And here I am doing it again!
Why? Because several of the public reels I’ve created have been getting a large number of views. At time of posting, my three ‘top performers’ have received a total of over 232,000 hits between them!
So why not monetise? The answer as to why not is both simple and complex. As is life.
The simple one is: I don’t want to see adverts on my page.
It’s f’sure not one of the reasons why I created it in the first place (see last month’s post for those). Plus, as I can’t stand seeing adverts on any social media platform, why would I want them on my page?
The more ‘complex’ reason is … complex.
I took early retirement back in 2020 for one reason: After 45 years of work, I realised I’d had enough of it! And yes, I know I’ve been uber-lucky to do so...
I’ll concede my page has … almost … become something of a ‘job’ nowadays. However, that ‘almost’ is so very important to me, and it’s an argument I’ll be sticking to!
Why turn something I’m really enjoying doing into any sort of job now?
Democratic Right?
I can’t vote in Italy.
On the Ministero dell’Interno (Ministry of the Interior) website, and under the rather misleading title of “Foreign nationals can vote in municipal elections”, I discover I can’t! You must be an Italian citizen to vote in the national elections; an EU citizen to vote in the European Parliament elections; and an EU citizen resident here to vote in municipal elections.
So, there it is, and despite being a resident here. Something else we should be ‘grateful’ to Brexit for!
To tell the honest truth though, I don’t really mind that much. F’sure, it’d be nice, but “It is what it is” has been my mantra ever since we moved here. And I, for one, consider that a small price to pay to be able to do just that.
Although, since then, I’ve been somewhat ‘particular’ about when I actually vote. By that I mean: If’n I’m living somewhere, am able to, then I’ll do so. However, if I’m not actually living there, but am still eligible … then I don’t!
Why ever not, I hear you ask? It’s simple really. My ‘moral compass’ won’t let me, y’see. What right do I have to decide someone else’s future … when I’m not actually there at the time?
And there you have it!
Democratic Left?
The UK General Election will be on Thursday 4th July 2024.
Now that choice of date is interesting, the 4th July being US “Independence Day”, of course. While not exactly that, it’ll likely see the UK at least free from the ‘shackles’ of the current administration.
Do I believe the Labour Party will do anywhere near a better job, assuming they make it into power? Who can say? Certainly not me. I mean: I’ve lived, worked, and raised a family under both and mostly centre-right and centre-left governments all my life, and in two countries too. And each has its plusses and minuses.
But assuming Labour get in this time, surely they can’t be any worse than what we’ve been seeing since 2010, with a succession of five Prime Ministers, each one seemingly wanting to outdo the others in being an absolute numpty.
Why all this vitriol on my part? Well, in one word: Brexit!
If it wasn’t for that doofus David Cameron, and then that absolute bellend Boris Johnson, we wouldn’t have had to jump so many of the bureaucratic hurdles we’ve faced since arriving here back in September 2020.
Acknowledging that Brexit did give us the ‘incentive’ to exit the UK, I still hold a massive grudge here.
I ain’t no monument to justice!
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