Abstract Thursday…

This is the shiny truck outside the weighbridge clock. There’s not many people around today because it’s a bit chilly in the wind but I expect it will be jam packed tomorrow which is Liberation Day and this pic is taken right beside the Liberation Monument.
And a caption for my extra pic might be ‘Where’s the water gone?’.

The saying of the day is ‘Flattery will get you nowhere’.

Origin of Flattery Will Get Your Nowhere
For example, Aristophanes (388 B.C.), Cato (175 B.C.), and Cicero (45 B.C.) are just three famous ancients who warned against flattery, yet the phrase flattery will get your nowhere originates from the mid-1900s. A contrasting phrase is flattery will get you everywhere.

And finally spare a thought for the cardinals locked in the conclave to elect a new Pope and hope that this does not become the longest papal election in history. At the moment the record is 1,006 days in 1268, a time when the process of selecting a new pope became a tumultuous affair in Medieval Italy.