St Swithin’s day isn’t till July but we’ve been having such non-stop rain for so many days now I fully expected it to go on until we reached the legendary forty. However the winds of Crete, something fierce at the moment, seem to have temporarily banished most of the clouds so maybe the wet weather is finally over. Not that it is that important for me because I only have until tomorrow evening before leaving anyway. This means that today’s blog will more than likely be the last until my return in a fortnight’s time.
Wonders will never cease: at last an American movie uncluttered with background music. In fact, apart from a brief blast from a Mexican band actually playing in picture, no music until the end credits roll. How wonderful. How absolutely bloody marvellous, how natural it all seemed. Will other producers and directors take note please? The movie is called “No Country For Old Men” written and directed by the Coen brothers and starring Tommy Lee Jones. Terrific!
Here is another snippet from the newspaper. Newspapers are good for snippets. This is a letter to the editor from someone who has worked in paper recycling he says for forty years and now runs his own company. Evidently there is now a paper mountain, just as there was previously a butter mountain and a wine lake I guess, and it seems to have escaped the experts (experts are everywhere these days. Have recently watched the BBC/Open University series “Coast” and, apart from the experts taking us around the shores of Britain, experts of every kind were constantly picked up on the way) that unless there is a market for all this recycled stuff; paper, glass, plastics, metals, it will all end up rotting in fields or stored in warehouses at enormous costs. He reckons it should all be incinerated to generate electricity but this is something the greens won’t countenance despite the landfill problem and the enormous costs that go on transport and mechanical sorting of waste that no one wants. And here we have been dutifully separating our household rubbish into recyclable and non-recyclable and it would all seem to have been to no purpose. You just can’t win.
A priest in England has taken the figure of Jesus down from the cross in case it frightens the children. Say no more.