Sahara - Milk and Cookies

Soundtrack - Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order

(Not maybe the ideal music for Michael Palin's latest travel documentary.)

There is not enough time to describe how exhilarating Michael Palin's Travel programs are. His latest is a journey across and around the Sahara and it was lucky we had it on tape because we had to keep rewinding it to hear the bits we missed through laughing. See it for yourself. Or read the book.

There is a menacing sky out of our very big windows today. There are also many plumes of smoke and steam one the horizon (mostly from power stations I would assume) so it looks a bit like the blitz - well if the Luftwaffe had used Easyjet planes as bombers. my Mother-in-Law lived through the real blitz of Liverpool so she might have something to say about the comparison. She was evacuated from Seaforth which is right by the Docks to the end of the runway at RAF Woodvale which I sure must have been a lot safer. It is very easy to forget that many people I know lived through very difficult times and do not complain about it. Some even long to go back but they may be peculiar in some way. Today has fallen into a mess of rambling again.

My own webpage recommendation for today :- The Nature of the Catastrophe

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