Putting one foot in front of the other really does lead to interesting places. Before you know it, you're down along a path and marvelling at mountains for the first time, or the ocean, or the architecture of the Elf, greed of dragons or sheer pig-headedness of politicians.
Sometimes scary in that sense.
This week I have been caught up in the amazing power of denial that the Australian PM maintains. Apparently, global warming is not really of concern to Australians. We have no interest in ratifying the Kyoto Protocol - especially not while China and India exist. Amazing. Hundreds of thousands of Australians walked in cities and towns all over the country on Saturday to show their concern in person, and it was not mentioned at all in our papers - except to say how great Cate Blanchette looked (picture). The London walk got a mention - literally, as a caption to a picture of someone in a polar bear suit.
Even the Hobbits recognised a Nazgul when it screamed through their town. If only we could set the Witch King onto Howard. I'm starting to think it will come to that. Probably in these days of economically rationalist outsourcing the Nazgul are probably keen for small contracts to supplement their week-on-week cashflow. I'll see if Bilbo has their email address ....
(ps. word count on novel/s still pitiful. Batman is turning out to be the Dark Horse, coming up from behind)
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