Rain, beautiful, almost-cleansing rain

Great day yesterday, starting off with a meeting with an astute young lady at Reading University, followed by lunch with Steve. The web site looks good, but it needs more photographs. Steve took a few shots by the canal after lunch but the sunlight was too strong - and I was too ugly. He showed me lots of pics of baby Charlie, who is 3 months old today. He also had plenty of room for a dessert or two. I was amazed to see his Fiat Stilo Abarth working - kind of.

Dinner with Stef & Ash was cool. Ash liked the magic hat, which I claimed would make me invisible, but not to the passing snakeoil salesman, who came across our Moroccan idyll in Hampstead, and invited us to give him a £1 each, and then buy British Airways, amongst other companies. Yes, I love to be given an elevator pitch for a highly leveraged buyout (LBOs) by a guy with questionable taste in beach shorts.

He who maketh the deal taketh the commission (for the buyout and the resultant asset strip), and passeth on the benefits (of debt) to the oh so many.

They blamed me for the visitation, but bless little Ash, for he took the guys number. We waved on 'Chris Scholey' to the catcalls of the working girls based across the street.

Interesting article in the latest update on OpenDemocracy. The article contains a comment that resonates with me:

'...are highly literalist in their reading of the Qur’an. They feel (for the most part) little need to read the book in its historical context, and view each and every word as relevant for all peoples and for all time to come.'

I'm off to bask in the lightning.

Love, peace & respect, Fearless