Drained

An overcast day on which I didn't wake up until ten to nine. I didn't wake up at half past seven as usual and had to listen to Thought for the Day on catch-up, before getting up and making breakfast. I went and collected the Beanfreaks grocery order before cooking lunch, and shopped for groceries at the Co-op in the afternoon, having slept for an hour after eating. I didn't think I was tired after sleeping so long during the night. 

Clare is still tired after he eye operation, although she was tired beforehand. Many of her friends also report feeling permanently tired nowadays. Is this due to the cumulative stress, in the shadow of war, the threat of terrorism, impoverishment from price inflation, environmental degradation and climate insecurity in a toxic combination?

I walked in the park before supper, and watched an episode in the third series of the ITV crimmie called 'Grace', set on the South Downs and in Brighton. Plots are always complex, and there's a running back story about his wife, who disappeared and is presumed dead after years of unfruitful investigation. Occasionally clues are given to the viewer that she's not dead, but has changed her identity and is living in Germany.

Hezbollah in Lebanon have retaliated today, firing a barrage of rockets into northern Israel, and in return Israel has been target bombing the district of Beirut where Hezbollah's leadership elite reside. Both sides maintain their response is measured, but international observers are apprehensive of an escalation of this localised conflict into a regional if not global war. Neither side really seems to know where to stop or take stock of the inhumanity of their actions towards their adversary, Very disturbing.