Don't you just hate rolling news channels at
times? Sky News: "Each of the people who died in the crash has a
backstory. And we'll be doing our best to bring these to you."
Talking of news channels . . . The latest farcical
statement from Russia's RT is that the 'authorities' in Eastern
Ukraine are calling for an international inquiry. In the next
sentence, these rebels were referred to as 'resistance forces'.
Whatever they are, they're actually preventing access and damaging
such an investigation, doubtless under the instructions of Mr Putin.
Apart from its biased news channel, Russia also
has its own loony blogosphere, where discussion apparently centres on
the possibility that flight MH17 was, in fact, the Malaysian Airlines
flight which went missing in March. In order to discredit Russia, it
was packed with corpses and brought down in Ukraine. I won't bother
you with the 'evidence' for this.
Mr. Putin is, of course, an ex-KGB man. I wouldn't
like to be the Russians and/or Ukrainians who've kaiboshed his
step-by-step annexation of ex-Soviet countries by mistakenly shooting
down a civil airliner. Assuming they're still alive.
Finally . . . I was intrigued to that see one of
the temporary stalls in the town's main square was selling knives -
something impossible these days in the UK. One even looked like the
scout knife I used to have. But, anyway, I bought one with a handle
made from the root of a heather plant. And so came to know that 'heather' is brezo in
Spanish and urce in Gallego. Though I thought she said oorth.
Hope these comes in handy.
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