There are some very strange people out there. This morning I was driving to Ullapool, enjoying Radio 5Live’s coverage of the amazing Chilean mine rescue. After a while the presenter began reading texts from listeners complaining that there was too much coverage of the event. “Are we going to have our regular programmes interrupted for the next two days, every time a complete stranger is brought out of the mine?” was one such text.
What is wrong with you people?! Thirty-three men were buried, presumed dead for seventeen days, living in fear of death by starvation. Then they are found, all alive and well. And today they are rescued and reunited with their families. What would you rather was on the radio/television? More job losses? More soldiers killed in Afghanistan? More reports of child cruelty/paedophilia? It was so cheering to hear of every single rescue that even the most idiotic driving could not wipe my smile today..… since when did it become ok to drive through a red light because there were no pedestrians crossing? It happened twice today.
And then… more good news! The courts ruled (twice... or was it three times?) that Hicks and Gillette could no longer keep their grubby mitts on Liverpool FC - they were like a pair of rotting octopi desperate to keep their tentacles wrapped around the club. I don’t want to get too carried away by this news; there is no guarantee that any future owner(s) will run the club any better. And then, even if the new owner proves to be the best football club owner ever, it still doesn’t mean the team’s results will improve. Personally, I would rather sacrifice a couple of seasons of mid-table mediocrity (or even non-relegation mediocrity) if the manager (and the club) used that time to develop and promote the younger players.
It rounded off a great 24 hours because, on Tuesday, my pupil, Sarah, passed her driving test with only two minor faults. It was actually her eighth test, but her first with me as her instructor. I can’t take the credit for her driving, she and previous instructors, had already done the hard work there. But she was terrified of the test and I hope that I contributed simply by giving her (justified) confidence in her own abilities. Anyway, very well done Sarah and you must be thrilled that you no longer have to walk four miles to visit your friends (or take another driving test).
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