Bredonborough On the sunny street
09.36
Bredonborough.
On the sunny street to get Minx reading of the Sunday kind.
Gentle reading…
WillyFred is being handfed by the Minx, to help him over his mood.
Bags are by the front door, and I have a few minutes with my family before the KevinMobile arrives at 10.00.
22.08 Farnese.
It was very hard to leave home. T was kind enough not to do the dead wife gag, but it wasn’t needed. Punctually into the KevinMobile…
… and off into a cold, sunny Spring morning. Straightforward travelling, procedures and into Terminal Five at Heathrow…
… with brunch at Giraffe.
A good flight, quite light and with the three seats in the back row to myself…
Reading the Weekend FT…
Our faith is fraying in the god of money By Margaret AtwoodThis is the mood: those at the top were irresponsible and greedy…
When distrust in a system becomes widespread among small players, it throws up something like Occupy Wall Street, or like the Tea Party. Or like, for instance, the French revolution… Confronted with protest, the aristocrats responded with inflexibility and prevarication, and dedicated themselves to preserving their own advantages at the expense of everyone else...
Transparency, accountability, fiscal responsibility, a true interest in the public good, leaders that actually lead, a financial system less like a faceless robot: is that too much… to ask?
Sounds much like Main Men that are Good Guys You Can Trust acting on our behalf in an area renowned for its dishonesty. One interesting statistic, not mentioned here, is that at the height of the sub-prime selling in the US, there were 250,000 salespersons out selling mortgages to people who were never in a position to repay them. How many of those 250,000 queried their actions, and how many acted otherwise?
Hark! Do I hear the sound of tumbrils rolling? But the aristos had names…
Allesandro collected me, and into the AlMobile with Folke…
… for the 90 minute drive to the nunnery retreat house…
The Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists V –
Special Performance Project
April 15th to 23rd, 2012
Foresteria Sorelle Povere di S. Chiara Monastero s. Maria Delle Grazie
Corso Vittorio Emanuele III n. 68
01010 - Farnese (VT) Italy.
Arriving c. 19.55 in time for dinner at 20.00.
Silence fell at dinner, as if it had been waiting for us. Silence never goes away; but is ready for us when we are ourselves ready to step away from our noise.
Unpacking and sorting…
Online doesn’t work but that’s not a problem for tonight.
