If it's a Boeing, you're still not going

So last week the engines on A380s were falling off or spurting oil all over the place, and instead of embracing the romanticism and adventure of potentially fatal flights, Qantas and now Singapore Airlines have grounded their fleet of A380s. It's not like the good old days when planes were made of cloth and string, men were men, and the ground had plane-shaped holes in it.

Confronting prejudice, via a sheep on Lyndhurst Terrace

I went for a walk at lunchtime today, to get a break from the infernal ennui provoked by database management systems, and as I strolled along Lydnhurst Terrace I walked past a woman bellowing into her phone. And a sheep.

I carried on, then had to stop and walk back to verify this. Yes, I really had seen a sheep.