Bleurgh
I'm only just resurfacing after having been ill with a dreadful cold which hit out of the blue last Friday. Well, out of the blue is not quite correct - the bellinghman came down with it first, so i suppose it was inevitable that I should succumb too. Having a bellinghman-sized cold in a Colette-sized body is not to be recommended.
I slept for most of yesterday, although I did get up briefly at lunchtime - long enough to see the news about the museum in Baghdad being looted. As a result, when I crawled back to bed that afternoon, my dreams were full of wandering round a shattered museum with inconsolable museum staff, mourning the loss of irreplacable bits of history. And about an hour ago it was reported that a library in Baghdad that was full of historical books and documents had been set ablaze. I can't even begin to understand this wanton destruction by the Iraqis themselves. No doubt the Americans will get blamed for letting it happen, but then no-one made the Iraqi perpetrators do those things in the first place. What were they thinking?
I slept for most of yesterday, although I did get up briefly at lunchtime - long enough to see the news about the museum in Baghdad being looted. As a result, when I crawled back to bed that afternoon, my dreams were full of wandering round a shattered museum with inconsolable museum staff, mourning the loss of irreplacable bits of history. And about an hour ago it was reported that a library in Baghdad that was full of historical books and documents had been set ablaze. I can't even begin to understand this wanton destruction by the Iraqis themselves. No doubt the Americans will get blamed for letting it happen, but then no-one made the Iraqi perpetrators do those things in the first place. What were they thinking?