The original plan foor
today was to be taking a day's holiday which would be spent loading
the car in readiness for a weekend camping at Teston kite festival.
But this time I couldn't get the holiday either before or after the
weekend. It was suggested I went up Saturday morning and came back
Sunday evening, but it would have been a lot of effort for just one
night away.
I suppose I could have
taken a lot less gear, but there is a difference between "camping"
and "roughing it in a tent"; I've done minimalist
camping a couple of times and it's simply no fun. Especially in the
rain; and we've had several wet days at Teston over the years.
So like any other day I
was up and about far earlier than most people would be. Even "Furry
Face TM" was still asleep as I scoffed my
toast whilst watching new episodes of "Family Guy".
And so to work on a
bright morning. Or bright for me. It's not so bright for those in
Africa where the ebola epidemic is
rampaging unchecked. My piss boiled when the radio wheeled on
some academic twit who was bleating on about the need for "ethically
controlled evidence" when an experimental drug has been
shown to help ebola sufferers. These people are dying (horribly)
and people in ivory towers want to mess around with silly
experiments. Give the drug. Now.
And I couldn't quite work
out what was going on as the announcement was made that far from
being affected by the international sanctions, the average Russian
seems blissfully unaware of any of their effects. In order to punish
them for their alleged involvement in Ukrainian wars the western
governments are trying to make things difficult financially for
Russia. However
it's not working. In response Russia has enforced its own
sanctions against those who would take up sanction against them. And
it is the rest of the world which seems to be suffering from Russia's
tit-for-tat reprisal sanctions. One of the big-wigs at the
construction machinery manufacturer JCB said they may well end up
going out of business through Russia's actions against the west.
As Fergal once said; the
greatest risk of striking out is the risk of being hurt.
I did work, I came home
again. Finding that "er indoors TM"
was home we all went for a walk round the park together. We played
"seagull skittles" in the co-op filed when "Furry
Face TM" set them all flying. We scared a
small Scottie, and I even spotted Ashford's elusive gasometer...
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