I'm sorry dear friends that I have neglected you for so long. My left eye is now completely restored and I can see better through it then I can remember before. However another event in my life has been keeping me busy, doubly busy. At the end of October I became the Grandmother of twin baby boys. How exciting that has been and has also involved lots of hard work helping out with their daily routine. sometimes I am looking after one twin or the other and then again I am sometimes looking after their big brother. It is all a joy but I am glad to get home and recover at the end of the day. So I think you will understand why you have not heard from me for a while. Now I have broken the ice I expect I will be keeping in touch more as I have in the past.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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