Sunday musings and pic in blackpropaganda

So, The Bridge is over after five weeks of some superb storytelling and acting – and it was as much about the nature of relationships as the attempts to solve the question of who was trying to spread biological contagion. Detective series now always have the ‘tecs as troubled people – but this gave a real roundness to the development of the characters. So what do I do from 9 pm to 11 pm on a Saturday evening now? Answers on a postcard - and no sex please, we’re British.

To compensate we now have the Six Nations rugby championship on nearly every weekend on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. No wonder there are so many injuries we men crashing in to each other with very little real protection. I always love the thought that in a sport which is so macho there must be something satisfying in being in a scrum when your face is up someone’s bum.

Should I mention the weather? Actually it is sunny at the moment – it won’t last.

And a thought about the people trying frantically to salvage their diaries on OD. It brings into focus the whole issue of a society dependent on a form of digital recording which can be wiped in a moment – think of all those medical records – government records – bank records? So much for the paperless society when the only way to preserve anything is to download it and print it out. It really is a problem for historians who have relied on written sources for ages – in the age of the e mail and text the records of the past may be impossible to reconstruct. Which is all good for governments who hate people who bring up issues from their past. So thank you to Edward Snowden for showing us the nature of governments, and their use of materials – and their fear of other people outside government being aware of their activites. I wonder if they have read my e emails? Could be quite interesting!!!!

And another blast from the past - in the old days PB was the acronym for Photobucket, and so I have been trawling my Library to see what that PB has left for me - it can be unforgiving in terms of censorship - but here is Robert Crumb - a wonderful US cartoonist - who put the boot into the concept of the family