Much of the time they will hopefully be correct and honest but at important times and on important subjects they will sometimes be not. In the immediate aftermath of Buncefield the utterances were 'not a problem, it is only 1 of 43 such places, there will be no supply shortages' yet within a week airplanes were being rationed on aviation fuel at Heathrow (haven't noticed any recent news on this).

I will admit I'm a mite surprised by the article, I haven't heard of any real problems and I live fairly nearby. Perhaps there is a bit of conjuring in the story. But it leads on to...

Lesson 2: the infrastructure that supports our lifestyle is more fragile than nearly everyone presumes. Beware that presumption for it will bite you.

But today I came here for another reason: Ariel Sharon. He's someone I am ambivalent about, has been bad, has been almost good at times, but is certainly significant in the politics of Israel, Mid East and world atm. Currently he seems likely to survive but a long period of recuperation is almost inevitable. I wish him well in his fight for life and his recuperation struggle. Maybe he is the last warrior king in the line from independence to now.

It's very strange being in my head atm. World turns, wheels click inside, most of my brain feels like it is sorting through a multitude of impressions that didn't make sense before and are beginning to partly clarify. It's awful hard to write / type and I keep spontaneously weeping (not for Ariel, it's a side effect I've noticed before when things are 'clarifying', weird).

Previously I scrabbled for reasons: is Sharon assassinated in the election run up, does he launch an attack on Iran to attempt help his campaign, why isn't he 'there' (=significant) in late March? I guess I can relax on that thread now. It could take me some days for the sort through of internal data about this, maybe a month to see if things ahead have changed.

Sorry for this ramble, it might make sense to some.