Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Last night’s weather left our street covered in thick frozen snow. First I saw Jackie in her nightgown and my hat going to scape snow off the chicken coop and feed the chickens before bringing me breakfast in bed. I am horribly spoilt. Then I saw cars slipping and sliding and I worried that I wouldn’t be able to drive to work. But beyond the icy micro-climate of our immediate neighbourhood the roads weren’t so bad.

But nowadays, many people automatically return to bed when they see snow and had today’s county-wide conference not been cancelled, I am sure it would have been a disaster. Perhaps the cancellation was for the best after all. In any event, the cancellation left me with a free day and I spent this with Angelo talking about our current and future IT needs.

World gone mad

On returning home about 8:00 pm, I heard from the passenger of the car I bumped into at about 12 mph last Wednesday. His solicitor claims that his client is suffering from serious stress and whiplash and has accordingly lost substantial earnings. How can people debase and humiliate themselves in this way? I forward everything to my insurance company in the sure knowledge that they will do a deal. One day, people will look back wonder why we let it all happen.

The world faces a huge crisis and trillions of dollars are set aside for banks now become charities while at CABs across the country funding for specialist debt advisors has been cut. Economic orthodoxy is turned on its head and Labour is reluctantly nationalising the commanding heights of the economy. There’s a war in the Middle East, a continuing humanitarian crisis in Africa, and an election in America. Yet politicians and the media focus (solely and gleefully) on the far greater crisis surrounding Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross. Is it me?