high speed tosh

as usual the protesters are out at the prospect of high speed rail through the midlands. the argument that it will despoil the country side is none sense a ribbon of rail stretched across the country with elegant trains on it what is the problem and as they are going to encase it with two million trees means well have more trees than we lose. the high speed rail between Avignon and Turin is practically invisible even though it passes through one of the most compressed spaces in Provence between the mountains and the sea. in France i live with in 300 yards of the railway its is surrounded by pines and you don't hear anything .as for the spurious argument it will only clip 30 minutes to Birmingham then add Leeds t then Newcastle finally Edinburgh and youve saved two hours. as most peoples times is calculated as being 30 quid an hour you've saved a lot of cash and you've brought the UK into the loop of 21st century transport. Edinburgh to Paris 5 hours at most whats to quarrel with. advantages in France a boom in the south less air craft and journey that is quick pleasant and gets you right in the centre of what you want to be the moaners ive heard so far haven't analysed the gain don't want to know, negative negative --campaign as much ad you like it will happen sooner or later why not sooner

entente

last November England and France signed up to merge part of their armed forces everybody laughed. Libya has proved the scoffers wrong the British and the french have worked together very well. should we be in Libya is like asking should we have intervened in kosovo or should we have gone to war for Poland, it was too nasty to watch and do nothing . i love the talk of the crusades as being an emotive word well what about the moors overrunning Spain and southern France and the desecration of the greatest shrine in Christendom hagia sophia in Istanbul ghadafis' bluster about the crusades is part of the nonsense over who did what we ought get over not that we expect him to --and think on this Arab friends ,if the west goes down who will you sell you oil to china, a much less equable trading partner than the ones you've long been used to your best enemy is sometime the other face of your best friend

gap

there has ben a gap , stinking winter ,stinking cold, twists of fate affecting both solar and polar but were back hoping to attract more notice than before