Rearranged And Enhanced

I dreamed I was wandering around Eastbourne. Many of the features were the same- there were cliffs, there was a prestigious art gallery, there was a statue of the Duke of Devonshire- but they had been rearranged and enhanced. The cliffs had moved inland and become mountainous, the gallery resembled a Greek temple complex and the Duke's statue had been incorporated in a much larger monument. Everything was very splendid but the sea - which is the main reason for Eastbourne's existence- no longer seemed to be part of the picture...

Merry Old Souls

Is Bill Gates a happy soul? Is Jeff Bezos? Is Elon Musk? Nothing I've read about them suggests that any of them are. Leastways none of them seems able to sustain a relationship. Was there ever a very rich person who was utterly contented- apart from Old King Cole of course?

Musk seems to be very close to dropping Twitter and have it break into little tiny bits. I don't suppose the world would be a worse place without it. Or are the platform's present travails all part of a Napoleonic masterplan- and will everything come right for it in the end?

Bezos says he plans to give most of his money away. And only the other day Graham Hancock was pleading for some benign billionaire to punt a little money in the direction of the archaeologists who are scanning the Amazon rain forest with Lydar (I hope I've spelled that right) which is a kind of radar that can see below the canopy. Thus far they've done about two per cent of the whole and revealed the existence of lost cities with streets and squares and pyramids and the works. Might Bezos be persuaded to take an interest? Mapping the rainforest, says Hancock- will change our view of human history- and that's at the very least...

Rain And Shine

We've had three inches of rain in the past week- and there has been flooding in the local area and across the UK. More of the same is being forecast.

All this rain plus intervals of warm sunshine (like the one we've had today) have kept the grass growing. It's not normal- or wasn't- to be cutting the lawn in mid-November. Will this be the mower's very last outing this year? I wouldn't count on it.