All a bit ordinary last month. Quick visit to Antigua last week. Sat in an airconditioned office without windows for 3 days. Actually not continuous - because was taken to lunch at Sandals on the Tuesday, and went to Rotary lunch on Wednesday. Otherwise all is well. Viewing approaching 70th with concern - remember Psalm 90, v.10? All depenmds what he meant by strong!!
Off next week to Scotland with the grandchildren, and 2 weeks later to a trip for a week on the Leeds & Liverpool canal. Should be a challenge. Avoiding London like the plague - it is manic with Jubilee celebrations and preparations. Road works all over the shop do not help.
Otherwise I suppose that no news is good news. There have been a lot of e-mails with anti-presidential jokes from the USA. None like the old ones, though, such as:
Air Force One crashed
in the middle of rural America. Panic stricken, the Secret Service mobilised and descended on the
farm in force. When they got there, the wreckage was clear. The aircraft was
totally destroyed with only a burned hulk left smouldering in a tree line that
bordered a farm.
Secret Service
descended upon the smoking hulk but could find no remains of the crew or the
President's staff. To their amazement, a lone farmer was ploughing a field not too far away as if
nothing at all happened.
They hurried over to
surround the man's tractor.
"Sir," the
senior Secret Service agent asked, panting and out of breath, "did you see
this terrible accident happen?"
"Yep. Sure
did," the man muttered unconcernedly.
"Do you realise
that is the U.S. President's aeroplane?"
"Yep."
"Were there any
survivors?" the agent gasped.
"Nope. They's
all kilt straight out," the farmer sighed cutting off his tractor motor.
"I done buried them all myself. Took most of the morning."
"The President
of the United States is DEAD?" The agent gulped in disbelief.
"Well," the
farmer sighed, obviously wanting to get back to his work. "He kept
a-saying he wasn't ... but you know what a liar he is."
That will do for now. Hasta la vista.
CG
