Perfect Clarity.

A couple of days ago, I went to visit my old Dad. He lives alone in the same house he's lived in for the last 50 years. He suffers from Alzheimers. Of course, this makes life quite tricky sometimes, for him as well as me, but it also makes visits quite entertaining. He rarely remembers what we talked about on previous visits so one tends to go over the same old ground. Also from time to time he says astonishingly random things as if he is sleep talking. This time, when discussing my eldest daughter who has gone travelling in Australia, he suddenly asked if she had remembered to take her slide rule with her. This led to a discussion about logarithms and log tables that used to be used in Maths classes. I was crap at maths and had no idea what the purpose of this was. Dad expained it to me with perfect clarity. Now I know what all those numbers were for. Not so mad after all!!

On the way home my car nearly got rammed by someone in one of those big 4 x 4s. Selfish git!. They should be banned but presumably this poor excuse for a Labour Government considers them perfectly acceptable and the sort of car we should all aspire to.

Also heard Margaret Beckett (I think) say that Bliar using the Queen's private jet was cheaper than using Eurostar. Jesus Christ! Politicians on drugs again. She probably had ways of proving this but back on planet earth even 5 year olds know that using a private jet is NOT cheaper than using a public train.