Sunday, 8 July 2007

It was a beautiful morning. Seemingly for the first time in weeks, the sun was shining and the sky was clear. Naturally, Jackie and I spent the morning in the garden. Our Hydrangea is finally looking spectacular and light (our neighbour’s has been perfect for 6-8 weeks) and our Hebe hedge is a wonderful mixture of parchment white and powder blue. Less attractive was our ancient fir hedge that was giving the garden a rather depressing feel. It had to go.

After a brief rest to recover from these exertions, Jackie and I then did some planning for our forthcoming holiday. So many people this year opted to holiday in the UK, and so of course we’ve had the wettest summer for years.

The floods in the north and elsewhere seem awful. From the news reports, there doesn’t seem to be much “rallying around”. Communities don’t seem to organise themselves to help their weakest members. I don’t want to appear unkind to communities in distress, but most people interviewed in teh news don't seem to think beyond slating the Government and besieging the insurance companies. Perhaps there are plenty of good stories out there but the media just aren’t reporting them? I wonder what Watford’s response would be to a similar crisis?

In the afternoon, and evening, and into the wee small hours, I worked again on our BASIS application.