Feeling better now

Today I took the dogs to my other favourite walk, driving through narrow lanes. Going round a bend I met a rabbit running up the road towards me. It suddenly realised I was the bigger, and turned and ran. Round another bend a Kite was taking off with some object in its claws, probably already killed. The weight made takeoff ponderous and it just missed my windscreen. Further along a grey squirrel scampered along the road.
I enjoyed the eventual walk much better than yesterdays. (See Old age 2)

World War II

World War two in a chat room? How it might have been

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Old age 2

Whenever I take the dogs a walk to Loynton Moss, I have to drive along about a half mile of A road. This is the meeting point of so many differences in our society. No matter how I try to speed up my little Yaris to a reasonable speed (and attempt to get off the road before being a nuisance), I invariably end up with someone (is it always a BMW?) right on my tail. This part of the road involves a series of S bends, and double lines down the middle, so why they want to rub my bottom with their noses I don't quite understand.

Now is this BMW meeting Yaris?
Old man meeting young?
Country versus town?
Dogs versus iPods?

Are they irritated all day like me over this trivial meeting? Or is it forgotten in the next hold up just round the corner?
The answer of course is simple.
I could stick to my country lanes and walk somewhere else.
They could get up a bit earlier and then drive with more consideration
I suspect the real solution is far more complex.
And a lot of it has to do with how we view cars and car users.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

There is an interesting interview of Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the BBC web site. He is the inventor of the World Wide Web and has some good things to say about blogging

Remember, my friends, a blog isn’t a media property or product. It is a person. And this isn’t content. It’s a conversation. Make it a civil one if you can.