Stats: What is happening in Stats I wonder. Mine have bolted into the thousands, are they bots - repetitive, automatic nothingness, or what? I am now doing the rounds in Brazil having left Hong Kong and Singapore behind. Weird and rather scary.
The other thing that came to mind was 'gentrification'. Next door, which has been empty for a couple of years, and had a catastrophic flood one winter, because of frozen pipes, is now being done up and a smart little patio area out at the back with newly made steps to the backdoor.
Doing houses up is a British pastime, mostly in search of a bigger buck, but we have been landed with an inheritance of old Victorian and Edwardian houses. Large, high ceiling rooms that are cold and no double glazing, and forget damp courses as well. They need a lot of tender loving care, as people try to find the old fireplaces and decorative design on ceilings and dado rails.
To do anything to one's house it is best to go through the planning department of the council. Which is an excellent foresight by those that made the rules. Adam our architect will oversee our house when eventually the required planning permissions come through. But hopefully that is way into the future;)
The bad news goes on in America, did that completely false view of America I had, which unsurprisingly based on its films and news about film stars, be all untrue?
I have watched that river in Texas eat up the ground with a ferocity which is overwhelmingly frightening. Know that there will be more deaths than stated each day and wonder how everyone copes with the aftermath. The loss of children is terrible, suddenly one finds that there is nowhere safe in the world for them.
Whatever the reason as to why people were not informed about the coming disaster by sirens or warnings is something to be looked into. We have a flood warning here, an old war siren, with all its frightening sound, which will be tested throughout the year. But though the water will come down from the moors above we will never have a raging torrent but the slow creep of water rising.
What does come out of this American disaster though is the stupidity of those in charge of the government, who rush round mouthing empty words, Is it really the end of politics as we once knew??
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