“Our job is to not panic every time two Muslims stand together checking their watches” – go and read Bruces diatribe on handling terrorism…its what I wanted to say but didn’t have the words for.
In other news I was greeted with a long face at the garage when I went to pick up my car this afternoon – he was worried about charging me so much (150 pounds) for a car that doesn’t have much of a useful life left. But then I spoke to him about it, and he was fairly upbeat about the mechanics, its just the peripherals (like brakes) that will stop it getting through its next MOT (minor leaky *something*, rusty discs, ABS sensors, etc, nothing unsafe but all things that’ll need attention soonish)…he relaxed a bit when I said that was December. Maybe I should get in as many miles as I can before then, to get the most out of it, but its not going to last forever.