Thursday, January 29/2009

The nearer Smart store, discount in theory although not always in practice, has moved to larger quarters and opens today so we stop, but no ceremony, no specials - though a pretty good price on cayenne, so it´s not a wasted trip.

Today Bill Stone, the last British WWI vet to have seen active service, is buried. (I have no enemies only friends he used to say: outlived all my enemies.). He was 108. Impressive enough, but a woman is discovered in Uzbekistan with documentation giving her birthdate as 1880 and consequently making her a hundred and twenty-eight years old. She appears on television in a brightly coloured scarf, toothless and looking old, but no older than women of a hundred who could have been her daughter´s age.