It Goes On

The kitchen radiator will have to come out again because it's too big and won't fit under the new worktop. The plumber suggested cutting a section out of the worktop to accomodate it, but Peter- who has the last word- has said no. i guess it's not a big job to switch one radiator for another.

The work was originally scheduled to finish at the end of this week. That's not going to happen. 

The same three guys are working in the kitchen. They've been here an hour. Now they're taking a break. They take a lot of breaks. If I were one of  them I'd take a lot of breaks too. 

Hooray For WikiLeaks

1. I've returned to reading the papers online. That's mainly because I want to keep abreast of the WikiLeaks saga. Today we're hearing about Russia- and how the Government and the mafia are hand in hand. 

2. A little of nugget of British interest is this. Britain signed up to a treaty banning cluster bombs. The US didn't. The House of Commons was told that all supplies of the bloody things would be removed from US bases on British territory, only- behind the scenes- the Foreign Office cooked up a wangle which allowed things to carry on as normal. David Miliband is choosing not to comment.

Cluster bombs are foul. The bomb bursts and distributes lots of little bomblets which can hang around forever. People in Vietnam are still being killed by bomblets that were dropped over 30 years ago. 

3. The US government has pressurised Amazon into pulling the plug on WikiLeaks. The methods are different, but I don't see- morally- that this is so very different from what happens in China. Either you cherish freedom of speech- or you don't.  

4. Here's an article- from the L.A. Times in which two federal agents argue that WikiLeaks (if it had existed back then) might have stopped the 9/11 attacks. 

A Day's Work

Ailz noticed a crack on the beading round the bedroom window- and alerted Peter who alerted Mohammed who came and gave the window frame a good shake to prove it was secure. The sink is plumbed in but for some reason only the hot water works; the plumber had sloped off before I noticed this, so I'll have to wait until morning to ask him what's up. Most of the kitchen units are in place, but none of them have doors.