Come back the Silly Season, all is forgiven

I've just returned to West Cumbria after a short family holiday in various parts of the UK.

Most of the holiday was great and it was wonderful to see those of our relatives who we managed to meet, and attend a very happy event yesterday, the wedding of our friends Stephen Haraldsen and Genna Martin.

The one downer on an otherwise wonderful week was that whenver we put the TV or radio on, to say that much of the news has been somewhat depressing would be rather an understatement.

Usually at this time of the year there is a dearth of real news so we get the so called "Silly Season" when newspapers and the TV cover all sorts of daft stories which would usually get spiked.

This year however there is a vast amount of news, all too much of if the sort of thing we could all too easily do without, from a ghastly war in Gaza, fighting in Ukraine which has resulted in suffering for the people of that area and a planeload of 300 innocent people including scores of children blasted out of the sky because of someone else's quarrel, large areas of Iraq and Syria falling into the hands of the "Islamic State" (formerly ISIS), genocidal new threat which is so bloodthirsty that it has been disowned even by Al Queda, much of Europe going back into recession, etc, etc, etc ...

So not so many "Silly Season" nonsensical stories and lots of horrible ones.


Come back the "Silly Season", all is forgiven.

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