J - I agree entirely with you. How can you get a massive bonus when you have lost a few billion. I would love to run my finances like these banks do.

D- Fortunately the human is a very resolute and incredible bit of kit that seems to be able to recover from the most horrendous of experiences, but I do wonder at these kids and the horror we inflict on them generation after generation. I really admire what you, Sally and the rest of your family are doing to help these two lads.

Where had you just been: hot, flies, dying…

I reckon our Afghan boys must often be having similar thoughts to yours, as you described them here. Not so long ago, they were in some form of hell, then things got even worse while they were on their journeys over, and now they find themselves in cosy middle England where we’re more pre-occupied with currency fluctuations and how a handful of fatcats have cocked up.

All the best,
D.

One wonders if the current economic situation will bring about more and more of these mid/late life crises. People who have never been out of work before and others so stressed just by trying to make ends meet for their families. Meanwhile, the fat cats responsible sit tight on an obscene golden goodbye that doesnt seem to be performance related. It’s a scandal. But so often politicians and big business seem to go hand in hand with each buttering the bread of the other.