A cold sunny start to the week with housework, writing, cooking lunch of rice and veg with British grown black fava beans which Clare soaked and cooked yesterday. A good flavour, not as bland as other similar kinds of beans.
I had an idea to write a fictional short story based on my father's father's migration journey to the USA and back at the turn of the 20th century and began writing it after lunch. Then a long afternoon walk in the sun enjoying the milder air. We went out separately at different times and then met unexpectedly on the path around the edge of Pontcanna fields, walking the circuit in opposite directions.
After supper I added another couple of pages to my new story, then watched the next double episode of 'Nightsleeper'. It's developing into a story about political intrigue as much as it is about cyber security threats and networking geekery. It's an interesting reminder of how dependent we've become in modern living on digital infrastructure. A huge house of cards in my opinion. No matter how robust and resilient systems may be, their energy consumption globally has as large a carbon footprint as the airline industry. How much does this matter to those in power with planetary heating reaching the point of being irreversible?
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