9th May 2010

Well I planted out the herb bed yesterday and inspected the frost blackened potato shoots and woke up this morning to another heavy frost – you can’t win. We are having some late frosts this year and more to come over the next few days. But at least we haven’t snow forecast like north Scotland.

Had a busy day yesterday ordering a new car – was going to opt for a Mazda but after thinking about it realised it cost too much, so I have opted for a Kia Piccanto – bargain. Ok not very glamorous, but sensible and more importantly; very cheap! I should be driving it around town within a couple of weeks.

Watched Avatar again...I love that film. I wonder if one day we will be able to go to other worlds and find other races. I suspect long range space travel will be possible one day. But inter galaxy travel will probably be dependent on some incredibly rare element that fuels our technology. This will drive us out into the stars to search for more of it...and pity anything that gets in the way. That’s not a sweeping statement because we do it already for oil, minerals or wood. Technology fuels the worst of our excesses really. We are capable of more and more advanced things, but seem incapable of advancing from the apelike capture we are. Perhaps our primitive drives and needs that run close under the surface veneer of societies will be the one thing we can’t advance in line with the ability to do great things and thus be always limited by it from achieving a fairer world. It certainly seems that way. But for now all I am worried about is the frost tonight.

Enjoy the volcano pictures from this great website

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html