08.45 : The boys got up at 7.40 to watch 'Match of the Day' - the only time the telly ever goes on in the morning. Ten minutes later they're back upstairs.
'It's not on, Dad - there's been an explosion in a refinery near London'.
So I got up, fearing a terrorist attack, and have been watching off and on, in between lighting the fire, cooking breakfast and feeding hens. Susan and two of the kids are in London.
They may as well have put MOTD on with occasional scrolling news subtitles . There's little hard information coming out of the scene, so apart from the admittedly spectacular pictures BBC TV are reduced to saying the same things over and over again. Occasionally a new snippet emerges (Total oil spokesman - 'I can confirm that all our employees are accounted for' - How many is that ?' - 'Two') and is added to the mix. Otherwise, big plume, heard as far as Guildford, not an aeroplane (as in 'power surge on the tube'), there have been casualties.
They can't leave the story to develop, so they use what creative talent they have to find new ways of telling us the same thing.
UPDATE - the England Project were there.
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Yes. Annoying innit?
Seen the 'racial tension' in Sydney?
First see: http://rightwingdeathbogan.blogspot.com/2005/12/skippy-arks-up-and-kicks-some-arse.html
Then: http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/
Cronulla is an area where a lot of Brit expats live too. Near Sylvania Waters, remember that?
Parenting:
You're child is 16. Don't you let him watch MOTD on a Saturday night?
BORING POST!!!! I WANT YOUR INCISIVE COMMENT, NOT SECONDHAND REPORTING!
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