Came across the nastier side of life today. Came home from an interview at around lunchtime and heard noises at the back of the house. Saw a shadow of a person at the bathroom window and then heard scuffling sounds at the back door. Went upstairs and peered out of one of the windows to see 2 youths leaping over the fence into next-door's backyard. There were scuff marks on the back door, the wheelie bin had been moved and there was a dint in the lid like someone had jumped on top of it to try to get up over the fence or onto the roof.
About 10 minutes later, I saw about 6 very similarly dressed youths wandering around the street and into the block of flats next door.
The police came and had a look around but just took a couple of notes and that was it. I made a terrible witness, not being able to describe them well at all. They had 'hoodies' (as the Brits call them) on and their faces were in shadow.
Have been jumping at noises & shadows all afternoon. The adrenalin surge from the incident left me very tired and I crawled into bed for an afternoon nap.
I was going to write about Australia's World Cup Cricket win before this happened. What a great knock from Gilly to guide the Aussies to victory! I have often been harsh on the team as they come across as being very arrogant (as do many of their fans) and it is good to see them go down every now and then if not just to make things more interesting but you cannot deny the warm happy feeling when they win something big like this. [What a long sentence!]
I have a great desire to comment on the pros and cons of the Duckworth Lewis system but will refrain from it and keep this nice. The farcical ending of the match highlighted one of the issues - mathematics can be used to model and calculate many things but it can't compensate for the human factor.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment