It’s a boy thing

The weekend: Saturday was allotment day. We have about three quarters of it cleared and weeded now. It’s fun, but it gives me back ache. Other allotment people gave us a bunch of carrots and a squash when we were there. Everyone is so nice. I want to paint our little shed and mend the fence.

On Sunday we had a surprise visit from old friends and had lunch together.

Yesterday (Monday) some loony was spotted running around with a gun near my office. The police were called and the ensuing stand-off resulted in the loony attempting to put a bullet in his own head. Astoundingly he managed to miss and is now recovering in hospital. There was of course complete rush hour gridlock and I ended up walking to the station because the bus wasn’t able to get through. It took me about 40 minutes.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, I am intending to take the boy into the city to visit the natural history museum. It’s a holiday for him, but the Dragon has a training course, so I took the day off. We can go and see dinosaurs. It’s a boy thing. I shall take pictures and maybe even post them here.

There are seemingly an enormous number of people committing crimes whist on bail. Read this report, it’s horrifying.

Finally, here is an interesting little story. Apparently a naked cyclist was reported to Surrey police after he leapt from bushes and “pestered frightened schoolgirls”. The report does not make clear how he leapt from bushes on a bicycle, but I suspect that that is not important. The interesting part is the fact that police arrested a professor of experimental physics at London University in connection with the incident, seemingly only because he is a hardcore naturist. Prof. David Dunstan was able to provide evidence that he was out of the country at the time of the incident, but was still arrested and bailed twice before police finally admitted that he was not their man after a failed id procedure. Not only was he forced to take part in an id procedure, he also had his home searched and possessions seized, all of which turned out to be perfectly legal.

What gets me about this is the fact that the police must have realised very early on that he could not possibly have been their man. He produced train tickets that put him elsewhere and provided witnesses that could vouch for his whereabouts at the time of the incident, but they still arrested him. They then seized items from his home that they subsequently admitted were entirely legal. Why the hell have we got police officers on our streets who do not know what constitutes illegal material? It would seem that the items in question were photographs from naturist holidays.