Wheels and roundabouts

And like a bad dream come true, DFDS announce they are closing the Newcastle - Bergen connection from September. This isn't the first time the big companies have elbowed into this route, not worked at it hard enough, left it to the locals in Bergen to start up again, wait until things are going well again and then come once again to milk off the profit. Fred Olsen, Kosmos, Color Line and DFDS have all done this at the expense of the old Bergen Line, slaughtered by Cosmos, Norway Line, squashed by Color Line, and Fjord Line, dealt with by Color Line and DFDS. OK, I have always liked DFDS and they have probably done what they can...and they are not either a Norwegian-based or even a Bergen-based company. So I see their point in this case. It will be interesting to see how the ever-active locals in Bergen and Stavanger react to this. Is there any available ship to put in, apart from Bergensfjord, ex-Atlantic Traveller, ex-Bergen, ex-Duchess of Scandinavia? It puts the kybosh on my planned trip over in November...so far at any rate. This is obviously a story which has not seen its conclusion.
As has the Jersey childrens home story which I have been following with difficulty because there has been practically nothing to report. Sky told us more bones and teeth have been found and there is clearly a lot of work being done on the site and thus more to tell at a later date.
It was a bit of a head-hit-wall experience starting at school this week after two lovely weeks away in Greece...paid by the school let it be said. There is a total lack of communication between the different departments and I am expected to be at meetings in one place and teach classes somewhere else at the same time. It gives me a guilty conscience for a situation I have no power to do anything about.
But the weather is continuing fine and sunny, and the temperature is rising, it's almost Athens round here! Without the traffic. So we can't complain, can we?!!