Where to now Tony?

This article by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian sums up the mess we're in and who got us there. There is a necessity for governments to have a nameable enemy which we thought had gone with the end of the cold war. But they have drummed up another one.

[It's also worth reading the comments, much sense, and only 2 or 3 in disagreement]

Digging up the family tree

While looking at my mother's family in the census, I tracked back from her father, Samuel Percy Short, bookseller (born in Guildford in 1882, died 1936, during her honeymoon), to her grandfather, also Samuel Short, commercial traveller, born in Devonport, Devon, 1851, married to Grace, died ?1920s. This led to her great grandfather who was Robert Short, born 1814, died about 1865, married to Mary. They had loads of kids, some who died young: Eliza, Sarah, Robert, Henry, Ann, Mary, Amelia, Ellen, Samuel. But get this: in 1841 his profession is listed as "Scripture Reader". This is what you see above, 'Scripture reader in a night refuge' by Gustave Dore. He would go round the poor houses and refuges and soup kitchens reading the bible to them all. Also in 1851 he has changed it to "Wesleyan Missionary". Yea, even to the fifth and sixth generations, people!!!

Trouble is...

When it's not that sort of blog you get bored with it not being part of the internet comedy outlet (see this crazycrazy emanation) and wish you were interesting. Chiz.