It's Me.

"When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all;
I'm on your side.
When times get rough And friends just can't be found,
Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down.
When darkness comes And pain is all around,
Like a bridge over troubled water I will lay me down."

Nice picture of a Pieris taken in the garden yesterday afternoon, as you will see, the sun was shining, all was right with the world, today, it's raining, today I am in the house, today I have to argue with the radio and the television.

To be honest there are other things that I could do, jumping immediately to mind are ironing, hoovering, dusting, tidy up the junk in the room where I am sitting at this computer, but, I don't like those jobs, oh yes, they will all get done sometime.

Just seen on television that the British government spend, for the NHS, 400 million on drugs and medicine, it might have been billions, whatever, France, with the same size population spend double the amount, the French have 30% more scanning machines and 50% more doctors.

This next comment may be offensive to some readers, and it's a very delicate subject, but I write what is on my mind.

The disappearance of the little four year old Madeleine McCann, God knows I hope that she is alive, and if she is, God knows what terrors she is going through at this moment, but, what about the parents?.

There are two, presumably well educated, adults, responsible for their children, who leave those children alone in an apartment, and presumably have done on previous occasions as this would have been noted by any abductor, ignoring the possibility of the children waking up and needing comforting, that a child may become ill or a fire.

My wife was not perfect, nor am I, but the furthest that we would go when the boys were in bed, whilst on holiday, was to sit on the door step.

Had this been a single mum I believe the news headlines would have been considerably different, there would not have been any visits to parliament to meet members of the government for her family, or funds set up to pay the expenses.

I just feel that things are not right somewhere, I don't know what is right, I do know that many, many children go missing every year, I don't know who to blame, Just, perhaps, the headlines may be a warning loud enough to parents so that it will not happen again.