Wave After Glorious Wave of Deja Vu

A fact to start with - though obviously you can dispute the source if you feel like it. The World Health Organisation (WHO?) put health care in the UK at the 18th best in the world while that in the USA at 37th. Life expectancy and mortality rates in the UK are marginally better than the USA. I start with this because of the campaign against the NHS as part of the opposition to Barack Obama's proposed health care reforms. Please don't take my temperature anytime soon. I'll just go back to my hovel and die of something treatable. I wonder if there is an operation to stop one's knuckles dragging on the pavement.

Just got my next Moleskine just in time to catch the filling up of the previous one. The problem is that the only thing going for the contents is sheer quantity as it does not live up to the beautiful pages you can find here. I just cannot draw or lay anything out artistically thought I suspect that a large proportion of this inability is my extremely short attention span. I do so like Haribo Tang fastics. Don't you?

Dinosaurs DO exist!

Listening to all of the PJ Harvey in the library.

Yet another small step towards the disenlightenment in the form of the sanctioning of Creationist theories as part of lesser-known exam authorities. The idea that the teachings accept the existence of The Loch Ness Monster but NOT any of the mechanics of evolution is breath-taking - let it be taught in the crazy schools but please do not let us examine children on the subject. Having said that I can understand how it seems easier to read one simple book rather than a lot of hard ones.

Talking of easier books, here is proof of the imminent publication of the next volume of the Adrian Mole Diaries. I was sure that The Prostate Years was a joke but as I came to the end of The Lost Diaries (the Guardian column collected), there was an advertisment for it. And with The next volume of Michael Palin's diaries out in time for Christmas as well, a lot of quiet time will be required over the winterval this year. The trouble is, the pile of books to complete is possibly going to take longer than until Christmas to get through so I need to stop going to the library. Oh dear! Failed again! Just ordered this from the online catalogue. But I can stop anytime. I can. I just don't want to.

I am also within 10 pages of the end of the notebook and so the question of what version is required next. I chose a squared Moleskine last time and that suits my rather inexact writing but I should really go for just ruled next time. I haven't really been keeping it up to the standard it deserves. The first pages had lots of multi-coloured stuff, mind maps etc. but recently it has just been a collection of hastily-scribbled notes with the writing deteriorating enough so that I can't read it a week later. However, I suppose the contents of the writing is the important thing but I really would like it to be well-laid-out. My father has a much better eye for me, probably from being an engineer. He makes his own birthday cards on the computer and his last one was a large picture of Zebras at a water hole. It was borderless and took up the whole outside cover of the card, with the subject positioned exactly.