An End To Dull And Uncertain Days

Easter is behind us, the Royal Wedding and Bank Holiday ahead. This later weekend will at least not bring us the irrational imposition of minority religious beliefs on our shopping habits. There was no logic to the enforced closures of Sunday; the garden centre was closed - presumably compost is considered blasphemous or something - but Kwik Fit was open. On Monday we saw the inevitable reaction. I expect many people had emptied their freezers during the single day supermarket closure and they certainly made up for it as soon as they could. On Tuesday it was time again to return the daily contents of inappropriately driven 4x4s to their places of education and the roads suffered. I think this is particularly evident in our area where the infrastructure is poor and, depending on which Liberal Democrat or Conservative local government campaigner you believe, more houses are planned. We are thinking of replacing our car (our one car) but initial fact-finding was rather alarming as the prices of even used cars are high.

My recent life at work has been rather unsettled but I am distracting myself by looking forward to going to Norway. I passed 50,000 views on Flickr which is gratifying even if the number of views of some pictures absolutely baffles me. I was flattered to be asked for the use of one of my bus photos in 'Passenger Transport' magazine. We are going to London tomorrow for a show and will leave before the wedding brings the city to a halt. I expect however to see numerous police with and unnatural preoccupation with inspection covers.