Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Sunday, March 23/2014

Pretty lazy day. Actually begins like every other day in retirement, somewhat luxuriously with coffee and the news. Sky TV is appallingly bad, although I gather that it's not the only news channel endlessly focused on the missing 777.  Interesting that even when there was virtually no news to report the same material was replayed ad nauseum and not because there is nothing else in the world to report - Crimea is getting short shrift and there's virtually no mention of the politically motivated death sentence of over five hundred Egyptians. Little sense of what things will matter ten years from now (Syria will and Oscar Pretorius won't). But with tablets, even with dubious and uneven wifi reception, we, like the rest of the world, have access to news and analysis from the best international sources daily. Amazing.