Last night we had gales, the wind chased around the house, rattling and buffeting it and rocking me back to sleep each time it awakened me. In the morning the winds were still blowing at between 50 and 70 kilometres an hour. In the park, dead wood was brought down from the trees and the trails were closed, leaving us to make do with the wildlife garden to stir scientific enquiry to life.
In some ways, I could understand the adults who looked at the barrier that said, 'Trails closed, hazardous conditions' and decided to take a chance, but the young woman with one baby strapped to her chest and a toddler holding her hand who hesitated for all of five seconds before ignoring the warning - not so much.
A car parked at the front of the Nature House started wailing as I walked past it to put something into the storage cabin. As I turned to look at it, a head popped up from the back seat, then a hurried exit from the car park.
On the morning news, a man who had climbed up an electricity pole to steal cable and who had died when the pole cracked and fell with him to the ground, caused us little concern.
The Guardian reports that we will soon have the technology to drive our cars by mind control. Give me a break. That would mean people actually have to think whilst driving, something the majority of them don't do now. No, what people need is a car they DON'T have to think about at all. A car that someone else drives. A robot car.
4 comments:
hehehe @ your last paragraph
oh and we had warm strong winds this last week as well.
It sounds like an interesting job? to be involved with nature.
There is more sex in that parking lot than in all of the bedrooms of the US of A.
- Karen
Kat - it is an interesting job, just crappily paid.
Karen - they do seem to think that 'Nature' equates to 'Nookie'.
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