May 2007
(23rd May 2007)
Today's special reading has been Health and Sanitation in Communist China, as compiled by "independent researchers" for the US Joint Publications Research Service in 1956 and 1957. I am unsure which is my favourite bit. It might be number 8 of the Goals for Health in 1957, which was "to have a doctor wherever there are people." Perhaps it was the mass movement to exterminate ...
(22nd May 2007)
From the interrogation of Mr. Frederick Powell, a barge worker from Barking, during the course of the 1870 "Report upon Inquiry as to the truth or otherwise of certain allegations contained in a memorial from a vicar and other inhabitants of Barking in the County of Essex calling attention to the pollution of the River Thames by the discharge of sewage through the northern outfall ...
→ R.I.P.
(6th May 2007)
On Friday night I went to the pub for a quick drink. There were lots of the oldie regulars at the bar and they looked gloomier than usual. One of them said that N. had been killed on his bike that morning. I didn't know who N. was. Then a wee toddler came into the pub, a lovely blonde girl who I recognised. "Her father," ...
(1st May 2007)
Excuse the weird editing in the last post; the Dubai hotspot cunningly posted it while seeming not to thus providing some Pashtun gobbledegook.
To round off My Travels In Africa and Dubai, my seat on the last leg home was in the last row of the plane. This is probably good if the front of the plane is sheared off in the freak accident that ...