Saturday 23rd August

The weather is still tediously hot, and likely to be so for the next few days, but at least 'partly cloudy' is better than unrelenting sun beating down.

One advantage though of the hot sunny days is that the evenings are very pleasantly warm, and it is particularly nice when the sun starts to set, and everywhere is bathed in a rosy glow (hark at me and my purple'ish prose).

Last night Pattisue and I went to Sustainable Shawnee's annual dinner - called 'Tapas at Twilight', which means small portions of a lot of dishes provided by local restaurants, and which gave them a bit of publicity.   It was held in the Art Gallery/Museum on  St Gregory's campus,  we sat at a table in the courtyard looking across the grounds of the campus.  It was all very pleasant and I saw lots of people there I knew.

The sun was setting as we left.

I joined Sustainable Shawnee when it first started in Shawnee, but I felt a bit of a hypocrite because it is all about recycling and the environment, and I am just not energetic enough.  Tossing papers into a recycling box is as far as I get.

Today, Saturday, I had lunch with Bruce and Rosalyn at a Chinese buffet, and that was very nice. 

The rest of the day was spent on a needlework project while I watched the latest in the Middle East situation unfolding on television.   Obama is getting a lot of flak for being on holiday and playing golf, and at first I was critical of his critics and thought he  deserves a holiday, but an American journalist publicly having his head cut off is certainly an act of war,  and warranted I thought, his return to the White House. 

Because David Cameron hot footed back to Downing Street from his holiday, he is being held up (at least on the news channel I watch) as a shining example of how to lead a nation in a crisis, ha ha ha.

I later heard tonight that he rushed back when it was revealed that the executioner had a British accent, and efforts were being made to discover his identity - at first I thought that was as pointless an exercise as trying to discover the identities of the pilots who bombed Pearl Harbour - however his identity has been established, and it has been said that MI5 were tracking this guy and his cohorts in London, and it was this news which cut short David Cameron's holiday and brought him rushing back.   So goodness knows what is going on behind the scenes that we know nothing about.

Re-reading yesterday's entry regarding Cecil's Masonic funeral I think I should have been more respectful, so that is the reason I have edited that bit out.