Another very hot day today and another one tinged with sadness and tragedy. I woke up reasonably early and picked Anthony up at Grateley Station on the way in to Dorking. I had hoisted the Union Flag at half-mast in memory of Millvina Dean, who had survived the great Atlantic Titanic tragedy 97 years ago. As I drove up to Surrey, the news of Millvina's death was overtaken by two further news stories - that Susan Boyle the "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up singer had been admitted to the Priory Hospital in London under the Mental Health Act and that an Airbus 330-200 belonging to Air France had disappeared over the Atlantic on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris north west of the Brazilian city of Natal. It was believed that it had been struck by lightning but there was no trace of it and all 228 on board were believed to have perished. It is unusal as most crashes occur over land or near airports. If it has plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean, it will be difficult to recover the flight recorder. There were two further famous deaths today - Danny La Rue the female impersonator and Vincent O'Brien the famous horseracing trainer. I spent the day in our Dorking office catching up on end of month paperwork - mileage returns, monthly reports etc. and a tele-conference with our Indian outsourcers. Lunch was a smoked mackerel salad - quite honestly, there wasn't anything else of merit on the menu except the potato and sweet pepper soup which was surprisingly rather good. I left the office promptly at 5 p.m. and called in at Sainsbury's in Farnham for some shopping including some red roses and gypsophillia for Sara for her kindness and patience towards us all. When I got home Mary had prepared a talk to give to her class on the inportance of Fairtrade products. It was an excellent piece of work and I laminated her talk so it didn't get torn and provided her with a few pages off the Stop the Traffik website so she could give the class some details of what chocolate they could eat and where they can buy it. Tonight we had an Indian ready meal from Sainsbury's and I put together some final questions for Sara's Birthday Quiz.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Another Atlantic Tragedy
Another very hot day today and another one tinged with sadness and tragedy. I woke up reasonably early and picked Anthony up at Grateley Station on the way in to Dorking. I had hoisted the Union Flag at half-mast in memory of Millvina Dean, who had survived the great Atlantic Titanic tragedy 97 years ago. As I drove up to Surrey, the news of Millvina's death was overtaken by two further news stories - that Susan Boyle the "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up singer had been admitted to the Priory Hospital in London under the Mental Health Act and that an Airbus 330-200 belonging to Air France had disappeared over the Atlantic on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris north west of the Brazilian city of Natal. It was believed that it had been struck by lightning but there was no trace of it and all 228 on board were believed to have perished. It is unusal as most crashes occur over land or near airports. If it has plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean, it will be difficult to recover the flight recorder. There were two further famous deaths today - Danny La Rue the female impersonator and Vincent O'Brien the famous horseracing trainer. I spent the day in our Dorking office catching up on end of month paperwork - mileage returns, monthly reports etc. and a tele-conference with our Indian outsourcers. Lunch was a smoked mackerel salad - quite honestly, there wasn't anything else of merit on the menu except the potato and sweet pepper soup which was surprisingly rather good. I left the office promptly at 5 p.m. and called in at Sainsbury's in Farnham for some shopping including some red roses and gypsophillia for Sara for her kindness and patience towards us all. When I got home Mary had prepared a talk to give to her class on the inportance of Fairtrade products. It was an excellent piece of work and I laminated her talk so it didn't get torn and provided her with a few pages off the Stop the Traffik website so she could give the class some details of what chocolate they could eat and where they can buy it. Tonight we had an Indian ready meal from Sainsbury's and I put together some final questions for Sara's Birthday Quiz.
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