Peeves

People are funny. Mysterious stingray mutilations have been going on in Australia. As though you can punish animals for a man's death, more especially because there would be nothing further from Steve Irwin's whole life message than to do that. Bizarre.

We have left watching the TV series 'Deadwood' until it is actually being shown on the History channel. It really gives you an idea about how brutal life was in those days. Not much to look forward to apart from death as far as I can see. The most you could hope for was a less horrific one. Thought-provoking though.

Whilst typing this, I have the weather channel on, hoping to see a promise of rain. What I have actually discovered is that BC doesn't exist. No, it's like some mythical Province. We've had a detailed report on the Maritimes, OK, fair enough, they have hurricane Florence approaching, they deserve some airtime, and then Ontario, then we moved to the West of Canada - which apparently consists of Alberta and Manitoba. I can see BC on the weather map, but the weather lady can't.

Kevin and I had a similar-ish experience to this last year when we were visiting Cork. We were looking for Castlecor where Kevin's family had emigrated from. It existed on the map. We circled the area, but the place itself we could not find. We found a builder's sign - it existed as a telephone exchange, but not in reality. We asked people. We were directed to a grotto where the Blessed Virgin Mary protected the land, and this was apparently it.
I wouldn't have been at all surprised, had there been a local weather channel, to see that Castlecor had a special weather system but no physical existence.

At just before 4am, a truck came by and emptied the bins in the school opposite. In built-up areas here, emergency services have to turn their sirens down, yet waste management can wake residents up in the middle of the night. I will put it down to the 'fluence of the mountains again.

Well, now I'm pretty peeved. BC finally has a mention and Whistler, just two hours from here, may get some snow on high elevations, but we have to wait until next Wednesday for any rain, and then only four drops.
Bah, humbug. You'd think they might give us a TV screen saver of a storm, like the Christmas log. What the hell are the local warbands doing? Isn't it their job to call down rain for us? I guess we must have annoyed them somehow.