Well yet once again I asked for rain and got it, only once again it was by courtesy of Colonel Gadaffi and the car now looks like it’s camouflaged beneath the sands of the Sahara. The winds of Crete too have been blowing a gale for the past three or four days which has knocked hell out of the plum trees; most of their fruit now lying on the ground. The winds have been somewhat chilly in fact which has meant woollies at night and a blanket on the bed – in the middle of May? Strange. The only good thing you might say of the winds is that they do tend to keep the mozzies at bay. If birds find it difficult to fly then mozzies must find it impossible and decide to stay at home. Leastways they haven’t been pestering for the last couple of days.
If you fancy a good laugh, snigger or smirk rather, spend a while reading some of the religious or supernatural sites on the internet. You have never read so much unintentional tosh in your life, that is unless you still believe in Adam and Eve because any quote or command or admonishment or warning stems right back to the old Garden of Eden, that is believing every word in the Bible to be indisputable fact. For instance one site takes to task any church that allows woman pastors or elders so the poor old Episcopalians are doomed to everlasting hell fires and that’s a fact. Does Betty Guelf know she is the head of such an organisation? Maybe that is why the archbishop thinks Sharia laws would be a good thing. Maybe Christians could go as far as their Muslim counterparts and make sure all women are buried in the bhurka. Anyway, according to that mad footballer she and her whole family are lizards from outer space so that puts them firmly in their place.
A very interesting quote from Woody Allen speaking at Cannes – 'One must have one’s delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and too clearly life does become unbearable because it is a pretty grim enterprise.’ What must life be like (if it can even be called life) for those who simply have nothing in a world that elsewhere is so vastly rich? Someone has just won more than eighty-four million pounds in the Euro Lottery and the captains of industry and high flying bankers are once more on the ninety million kick what with salaries, bonuses and shares. At the same time in an area of India the children resort to eating mud and silica to assuage the hunger pangs and in another the money to ease food shortages has been diverted to pay for the facilities for the next Commonwealth Games. But, according to some, it would seem more important to conclude how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. They say the poor will always be with us; unfortunately the religious will be too, and that is enough of my hobbyhorse for today.