Yellow

 Today, a second wave of yellow dust from the Sahara is to be expected. This is what the weather man announced on television yesterday. At just before seven in the morning the light is nothing but grey, with the sound of cars rumbling over the cobbles on the streets nearby.

The news of the failed Russian invasion of the Ukraine is rightly the most important thing in the news today,  a megalomaniac's failure of judgement.  The Russian dictator is holding the world as a hostage to the threat of the use of nuclear weapons and his troops are becoming ever more brutal as their death toll increases. It is a horror beyond imagination for one who has lived in the comfort of western civilisation for the last sixty-six years.

All in all it will be necessary to wait today, there will be no long walks anywhere. It will be necessary to wait for the parcel people to collect the Japanese parcel. It will be necessary to stay inside to continue fixing things on the house. And it will be necessary to stay at home untill the illness goes away.

It is now half past seven, and the light has not gone yellow yet.