Tuesday 30/08/05

Nice sunny morning, but still windy. News from America is bad, extensive flooding and catastrophic damage and loss of life. The course of the storm gives me cause for concern. It is set to merge with a cold front over southern Canada on Thursday, which means that we run the risk of getting a swipe of Katrina's remains early next week. Isles FM reports that a dog owner was fined £40 for not cleaning up after his dog. This fining system was recently introduced by the same councillor who has the windfarms in his portfolio. I.e., the shit is hitting the fan. When your dog fouls in a public place, you have to clean up after it. Public places include streets, parks and beaches. If you bear in mind that Kenny MacLeod on Isles FM pronounces 'beaches' as 'bitches', the statement that "dogs on beaches" need to be cleaned up takes on a very smutty meaning. Finished writing down the diaries for dates up to October 7th, 2004, and readjusted the page counter in the written journal by 236. We're now on page 673 instead of 437. A couple of other odd-ball stories in the paper, such as the oil workers who put on an average of 10 kg since last survey, which means that fewer of them can travel in a helicopter. As a result, more flights are needed to ferry them around. Finally, there was this German woman who wrecked her car because a spider crawled over her face. Both the spider and herself survived.