New knee tomorrow

Strangely enough, I am quite looking forward to going into hospital tomorrow. At least, when I get out in a week or two, I should have a new and hopefully working right knee. With a bit of luck it will also be substantially pain-free.

I don't quite think I shall ever be able to gambol around like a spring lamb but maybe spring mutton would do.

There are all sorts of strange things happening in the world at the moment. Most of them are man-made or human induced in some form but the floods in Queensland seem to be of the order of those that made Noah famous. It is hard to imagine so much rain falling in so short a period of time that an area the size of a large part of Europe is under many metres of water. My worst nightmare consists of having to wade through large large areas of water containing snakes. People in Queensland are being warned about snakes in the water. If i was there, I think even if the water around my house was only a few inches deep I would probably not risk putting my toes into it. I know that that is almost the least of most people's problems in the flood areas but I would find it very hard personally to focus on anything else.

I am following with some interest how Sarah Palin will deal with the massive Morton's Fork on which she finds herself impaled. The dilemma runs as follows, Sarah together with her followers are supporters, vocal and active, of the right of all American citizens to carry firearms, but following the recent shooting of a Congresswoman and a number of people around her by a gunman, it will be very hard for her to continue to argue her position. On the other hand much of her credibility seems to have depended on her credentials as a wielder of significant near military firepower - it is hard to describe some of the pieces with which she has been photographed shooting wildlife as mere guns!

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