Ash Wednesday

I went to the service at noon today at Emmanuel.   There was another one in the evening for those who work.   But I didn't go up for a sooty black mark on my face - the imposition of ashes - it isn't really something I am used to in the churches I've belonged to in the past.    Otherwise I have just been in the  house.

The spoiled kid is still dominating all the talk shows.  I wondered who was paying her legal fees and apparently it is the boyfriend's father.   No wonder her parents didn't approve of the boyfriend, if that's the father he has.   Any responsible adult would send her back home to heal her relationship with her parents.   From time to time the news would go to the unimportant stuff, like Russia and Ukraine.

Another item widely reported is that of a mother who drove her car into the sea at Daytona Beach in Florida, with her three children in the back, screaming "Mummy's trying to kill us".   Mercifully there were people on the beach who rushed to the rescue.  They got two children out alright, but it was harder to get the 3 year old out of his car seat, and they only just managed it.   The mother is in hospital undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.   I have heard it said that the mental health services in this country are very poor, and they have seemed to me to be so.  

The weather has been better than the last couple of days.  The little dears are back at school.   When it is time to make up for these lost school days in the Spring Break there will be controversy because parents will have booked up a holiday.

Next Monday and Tuesday look nice.