That Chinese Curse!

Great excitement in our village yesterday morning! Well, if not great excitement, then a good deal of tutting! Someone had thrown something through the post office window. A young man who works at the Co-op store expressed his remorse at not having noticed anything when he arrived at work at 5.30 am. 5.30!!!! It was still dark then! I'm surprised he could see the door of the Co-op let alone a hole in the window of the post office next door. Poor young man! Fancy having to start work at 5.30 on a Sunday morning, an hour at which some folk would just be getting home from their Saturday night out! 

Had he noticed the damage, the young man would have phoned the police at once. As it was, someone else did it later. By the time I went through the village, the police were there, milling around trying to find someone who could open the premises so they could check if entry as well as breaking had taken place. This was causing a problem as no-one had a number for the people who run the post office. You would think that there would be some kind of central data bank giving phone numbers for those responsible for places like post offices. Or is that too much like joined up thinking? 

The general consensus was that the hole in the window, though quite large, was probably not big enough for anyone bar a small child to have got through. (Is this the work of a gang of young thieves run by a Fagin-like character?) Besides, there were no incriminating footprints on the outside windowsill. So it was felt that this was bit of mindless vandalism, still not to be condoned but less serious than proper breaking and entering. Mind you, there was still a fair amount of indignation. "This sort of thing doesn't happen around here!" You know the sort of thing. 

As for me, I went on my way, having bought my newspaper and some reduced-price strawberries. 

The radio news on Sunday morning featured, among other things, the Liberal party conference. They appear to be a little unhappy about having got into bed with the Tories and are criticising the right-wingers' proposals for cuts to all sorts of things. They do still have a good half-year to go before the next election, during which time they remain in bed with the aforementioned Tories. That could be quite difficult!! 

Among both the Liberals and Labour people there are those who say that they need a change of leader if they are to have any chance of winning the next election. We just need someone to start agitating for Cameron to give up leadership of the Conservatives and the turmoil will be complete. After all, Nick Griffin has not only lost leadership of the BNP but has been expelled from the party. Meanwhile, no-one seems to have a concrete idea of who to propose as the leader of the Liberals or Labour. 

Interesting times ahead!