Saturday Morning.

Up at 5am... listening to a news report about an online 15 min test for altzheimers.... I'd probably fail that now.

Talking news. I've been pretty busy this week, so haven't 'commented' on the news much. The Twitter farce in particular. I don't get the point of twitter and can't be bothered to find out. Apparently I 'use' facebook like twitter - whatever that means. It always makes me laugh when you are watching a serious news report and the correspondent has to use the words Tweet and Tweeted in a sentence about something important.

The Supper injunction busting platform does nothing for me - but it's making the papers much more interesting, they don't have to do any journalism now - just sit back and sample from the global babble. If anyone wants to know the identities of any of the superinjunction bad-boys and girls - it takes microseconds on google - but more interestingly, the papers are going to a lot of trouble themselves to suggest the identities - and not policing their moderated comments. The Daily Mail are particularly naughty - an article about an actor being sued for passing herpes to an unnamed partner ( superinjunctioned etc ) during a sexual encounter in Las Vegas carried the 'moderated' comment "this would never have happend in Miami - or Bruges" - teasingly, the article also included the fact that the pair had indulged in a session of 'play wrestling' - which left me mystified but is not something I would assume you do with a lady. It's pathetic and entertaining at the same time - and harks back to the 1960's tabloid tittle tattle of 'naughty vicars and beastly scout masters'.

Jemima Khan - who I really can't stand, and Gabby Logan - who I have absolutly no opinion on whatsoever, both made the mistake of reacting to the obviously false accusations about them. If there was any truth whatsoever in either accusation - then the papers would never have been able to name them, even after the revelations - so just shut up and laugh it off, Khan's bleating in particular was pathetic - nobody cares, love - well... not 'real' people.



The retributive justice case in Tehran  where a woman who was blinded in an acid attack has persuaded a court to allow her attacker to be blinded in a similar way - buy a doctor... under medical supervision... makes me feel increasingly uneasy and sick - some things I wish I didn't know - and the papers are in a frenzy of morbid excitement over the beheading of a middle aged English woman in a Spanish supermarket.... I'm starting to think whistfully of Royal Wedding Weekend.

It may rain later - just as well, the garden is looking sad and barren, but walking in the countryside and woods yesterday morning I have to say, it looked SPECTACULAR - really beautiful. Its about 6.30am now and I'm planning on taking the camera out with me - I've never know such varied bird life - varieties I've never seen before and have to look up when I get home, and everything is green and irridescent. I'm really lucky to live here.