I had an early night last
night and was in my pit by 10am. I woke at 1.15am, and saw every hour
of the night from then on. There was a rather loud vehicle which came
past shortly after 2am. There was a lot of shouting up the street at
3.40am. I gave up trying to sleep and got up at 5.15am. Fudge was in
such a really deep sleep that he didn't hear me coming down. I did
feel a pang of jealousy, but didn't wake him. He eventually woke as I
was watching "South Park" over my Bran Flakes, and
he came and sat with me. And he went back to sleep on my lap and was
soon snoring.
I scraped the frozen snow
off of the car and set off to work. Despite the recent snows, the
roads were clear. However there was very thick fog as I drove this
morning. The news was all a-twitter with Prince Harry's revelations
that he had killed insurgents during his military
service in Afghanistan.
Personally I feel he's
been a bit daft to have made this admission. Surely the Royals are a
big enough target for these extremists without him giving them more
reason to take a pot shot at a family member as some sort of a
revenge killing?
And then I couldn't
believe what I heard. Researchers
have found that patients are ten per cent more likely to die when
there are fewer medically trained staff about. Can anyone be
surprised by this revelation? How is this newsworthy? Isn't this why
we have hospitals rather than leaving ill people just anywhere?
Interestingly as I drove home there was an article on the radio about
trying to have consultant grade staff available in hospitals at all
times for this very reason.
"er indoors TM"
will have the hump over another
snippet of news. For Christmas she was given a book "Fifty
Ways to Cook Mackerel" and has been looking forward to boiling
some up. I've never been a mackerel fan, but if I didn't like it,
Furry Face could scoff it. Or so I thought.
For years mackerel were
the vermin of the seas. You only had to mention the phrase "mackerel
fishing" and the finny fellows would walk up the beach. But not
any more. Their numbers have dwindled so much that apparently the
international bunch who says what we can and can't eat have decreed
that mackerel stocks are unsustainable, and mackerel fishing should
stop. Apparently herring and sardines make an adequate substitute.
One lives and learns..
And then I read something
which on reflection has come as a surprise. The news that asteroid
mining is to be taken seriously.
For myself the surprise
is that it's taken so long for anyone to decide to make a go of it.
For all that the Chinese are having a go at space exploration, and
for all that this will provoke the Americans, the long term future of
space exploration will be commercially driven. Which is... if not a
shame, certainly not how as a child I imagined it would be...
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