This afternoon we drove to Worcester to stay with Gail over the weekend. She and Clare are singing in tomorrow night's Carnival Band Concert in Malvern. It's the first time for ages that I have driven non-stop for two hours. Somehow, I managed to get comfortable enough and didn't need to a respite. It's hard to tell really, but I think there has been a modest improvement in the condition of the wound over the past week.
On the journey, it was astonishing to see so many acres of fields flooded along the course of the river Wye and Severn. The abnormal amounts of rain over the past couple of months have left low lying landscapes waterlogged. Worcester racecourse and cricket ground are covered with at least a foot of water.
Radio and TV are highlighting concern about climate change, documenting the rapid melting of the Greenland ice cap, and glaciers elsewhere in the world. Some of that melt-water goes up into the air and comes down as rain somewhere else in the world. Yet at the same time, there are other places that are experiencing severe drought and extreme high temperatures. We're rapidly approaching the point at which little more can be done to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. Industrialists and politicians have turned a blind eye or been in denial about the facts until it's too late. The whole world both people and environment, will have to pay the price for the past century of consumer greed.
Winter solstice today, the longest night of the year. We all went to bed early.
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