Tuesday 10th June

I haven't got the car back yet, Terry has been working on it all day.   He thinks he has resolved the problem but wants to keep it overnight to see how it starts in the morning.

So I have been indoors watching the news, and my word, there is plenty of it.

This was being broadcast live for most of the morning.  There has been YET another shooting in a school.   The 74th school shooting since Newtown CT in December 2012.   Schools are so dangerous here I don't know how parents say goodbye to their kids in the morning.

I don't know if the student was randomly shot, or if the gunman deliberately shot him, we haven't heard yet what the motive was.   A member of staff was hit too, but I gather it just grazed his hip.  The gunman turned the gun on himself.

And this shooting happened at the end of last week at a University in Seattle, with one dead and three injured.

 

 

And this row is not about to abate anytime soon.



 

 



 

She was signing books in New York's Barnes & Noble.   It is being said she wants to get  'awkward' questions about Benghazi out of the way before she runs for President.  

This is a major humanitarian crisis at the moment on the southern border, thousands of unaccompanied children are streaming across escaping from the violence going on in Central America; El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala.    Refugee camps are being set up for them in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma in military bases.    It would be getting a lot more coverage if there wasn't so much else happening too.

And finally..............Pattisue rang this evening and suggested seeing 'Driving Miss Daisy'.    It was on at the cinema, but it was a film of a stage show, and the worst of both worlds. If I see a film I want action, and good sets.  I really didn't like it,  there were only three people in it, and I had a hard time following it because of the accents (like people here have a hard time with mine) so I don't really know what it was about.   And we assumed it would be the normal cinema price of $5.75, so were aghast at being charged $23.    Unsurprisingly, there were only four of us in the auditorium.

Coming out of the cinema the sun was going down.........................