I tried to buy an air conditioning unit yesterday - apparently London is all sold out. For the first time, I'm finding it physically painful to move around in the open air between 10am and 4pm and the tube is sheer hell.
I took a trip out of town yesterday to Mortlake - which sounds like a geographical feature from a Harry Potter novel - to see the Jesuit church of Saint Mary Magdelene. Sir Richard Burton and his wife Isabel are at rest in the graveyard, in a cement replica of a bedouin tent. There's even a little window up a ladder that you can climb so as to peer inside the tomb, with the coffins, some devotional pictures and various Catholic objects on display.
Meanwhile, the night of the politically-dead continues in London, with Jack Straw among a number of Labour figures dissenting from his support of the US position
Mr Straw, demoted to Commons Leader by Mr Blair, sent out by far the strongest condemnation of Israel. In a statement to Muslim leaders in his Blackburn constituency this weekend, he said: "Disproportionate action only escalates an already dangerous situation.
All very depressing. Well, at least Superman is back...
Didnt realise you had started blogging again, welcome back.
Posted by: Gavin | August 02, 2006 at 08:57 PM