The nightmare of an Apple fanboy
I admit it at last. For all my willingness to acknowledge the company’s failings, I am an Apple fanboy at heart. I had a nightmare that involved my iPhone screen getting a nasty crack in it. In the dreamscape, I lifted the cracked screen and wires came tumbling out. I didn’t know what to do, and said to someone unknown in the dream that, if the iPhone goes off for repairs, it will be weeks or months before I get it back given the shortage of units and, therefore, parts.
Why am I awake before the sparrows?
4.30am today I’m woken by Mandrake, our three-legged marmalade tabby, making loud noises and committing olfactory crimes. By 4.50am I’ve had enough, I’m obviously not going to get back to sleep despite the fact that I feel knackered, and so I throw back the covers and exit bedroom door. But as I’m doing so, Husband complains about me making noise.
Gypsy dead on beach don’t put off Italian sunbathers
The highly bigoted and callous attitude of many Italians to their Roma minority was revealed over the weekend after photographs were published of sunbathers continuing as normal with a day at the beach despite the bodies of two drowned Gypsy girls being laid out on the sand nearby just outside Naples, where a Roma encampment was burned to the ground this year after its inhabitants had been evacuated for their own safety. One of the deceased was 14, the other 16.
