Yesterday I mentioned
that I'd found a website advertising bonfire events. I've been trying
to find one of those for years. Now that I have found what I've been
looking for I've spent a little while updating my calendar with one
or two bonfire parades for the next few weeks. I do like a good burn
up and a firework show.
On the theme of bright
lights in the sky I've also pencilled in an observing session for an
upcoming meteor shower as well: I bet it's cloudy that night. It
usually is when anything astronomical is going on.
Why not click on the
"Dates for the Diary" link above and if you're free
you might want to come along to some of these? Wrap up warm if you
do.
To work. The roads
weren't as busy as sometimes they can be when I'm on a late start.
There was fun and games at the farm shop. As I pulled up there was a
herd of geese performing what I can only describe as military
manoeuvres in the car park. They were clearly not going to move for
anyone; and driving round them took some doing. I got my fruit and
veg and came out to find the geese all lined up with what looked like
a boss goose inspecting their ranks. I wonder what they were up to.
I also wonder what the
collective term for a herd of geese is; and what is the correct
terminology for a boss goose.
The morning's news was
somewhat contradictory. There was all sorts of spiel about it being
twenty years since the formalising of the European partnership into a
political and economic entity. And for all that the average man in
the street hates "Johnny Foreigner" there were no
end of pundits being wheeled on to the radio to sing the praises of
the European ideal and to say what a good idea the European
partnership is. Unity is far better than dissolution, and we were
given loads of evidence to support this standpoint.
There was also news about
the formal referendum for Scottish independence. And all sorts of
pundits spouted all sots of reasons why Scottish independence would
be a good thing. Not that I'm any expert, but it did seem that the
reasons why Scotland should become an independent country were
exactly the same reasons why forming a closer European union is a
good idea.
Interestingly it would
seem that the vast majority of our Caledonian cousins want to remain
as part of Great Britain. It is odd that Scottish independence should
figure so highly on the Scottish political agenda when all the
opinion polls show the majority of Scots are against independence and
that any referendum will probably be a foregone conclusion.
It never fails to amaze
me how isolationist jingoism can remain a viable proposition.
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