A very restless night – it rained so hard,
the noise of the rain against the window kept me awake.
As I walked to my car this morning I saw the
traffic wardens were out and ticketing cars. They were writing parking tickets
at 7.15am this morning. Am I alone in thinking this is somewhat harsh. I have
never seen a traffic warden in my road at what I would call “office hours”: they are either lurking
whilst people are having breakfast, or are up to evil whilst people sleep. I’ve
seen them outside my house at 12.30am (that’s
half past midnight) before now.
Have I missed something, or has autumn
happened very suddenly this year? Last weekend it was business as usual; this
weekend the trees are full of glorious colours and there are fallen leaves
everywhere.
I can’t remember autumn happening quite so
fast in previous years.
And today’s news: carrying on the space
theme, I see the crew of Mars
500 have landed. Regular readers will know that I’ve been following the
Mars 500 mission. Or that is I’ve been trying to follow it. I’ve subscribed to
their blog, but bearing in mind it’s written in Russian I don’t think I’ve got
as much out of it as I might have done had I been able to understand it.
For any of my loyal readers who’ve missed the
news, Mars 500 is (was) a simulated mission
to Mars, conducted in a mock-up spaceship in a warehouse in Moscow. Six
astronauts have spent the last five hundred days in the simulation, and have
now simulated the return to Earth.
It speaks volumes about the future of space
explorations that he crew contained Europeans, Russians, a Chinese chap, but no
Americans….
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