Into the unknown.

I don't know what it is, but I am all into this "let's be nice to each other, manners can be fun, show a bit of empathy" thing at the moment. And the paradoxical thing is that it frustrates me, makes me irritable and annoyed, and of course this leads me to behave in exactly the way I deplore in people around me. So I must have cracked it. The poor manners I experience in this country are caused by frustration and irritation caused by poor manners. I suppose there is a logic in this somewhere, god knows where.
This morning's lesson in kk went surprisingly well after a short sermon on behaviour and the consequences of poor ditto. The kids seemed to enjoy what we were doing and there were one or two sparks of genius from some of the more conscious of them. The Cetewayo picture was a specially good example of the Sherlock Holmes method and I must keep that one by for another time. Maybe a test in semiotics would be a suitable occasion to see the good king again.
And of course I got another parking fine, the third this year. It is getting expensive to teach down at Tinius Olsen. The parking card must have slid out of view and the resident cross between a Gestapo prison officer and a bald-headed vulture stooped down on the car putting the papwerwork under the windscreen wiper, discreetly folded (thank-you) for all to see. There is no point in complaining. Anyway, who is interested? Just the people who want my money, I suppose.
The news of the Saab bankruptcy is difficult to swallow. The Swedish government is against a bail-out, surely a wrong decision. If anything is iconically Swedish abroad, it must be the quality and design which is inherent in this product. OK, they have apparently never made money while in GM ownership, and I would have thought that this must be a golden opportunity for the Swedish state to use EU funds to reinvest in something which must be regarded a thing of the future. But no. It looks as if my relationship with a car which has given several million miles of reliable and safe motoring at home and overseas, is to come to an end. The big question has to be, what now? By the way, what if Volvo or Eriksson go the same way. Will the government be equally principled in its refusal to put up the cash? We'll soon have the chance to see.