Holding on for tomorrow

I know I go on about him, but the guy hits the nail on the head so often it's almost like he's a carpenter:

"...the government simply refuses to look beyond the present, for fear of seeing something it doesn’t like. For example, it has failed to conduct any assessment of global oil supply. When I asked the business department what contingency plans it possesses to meet the eventuality that oil production might peak, it told me “the Government does not feel the need to hold contingency plans”(7). The survival of our transport networks - and therefore of the economy - is secured by touching wood and crossing fingers." - Mr Monbiot's latest column.

His suggestion of a Hundred Years Committee to represent the interests of the future is a really interesting one and something it would be really good for our parliamentarians to pick up on.

Gig Tomorrow!

Quesada & Molino are playing at Cafe Iguana in Reading tomorrow night. There are four bands on the bill and we're last up. I think it will be our first full-length set, so it will be interesting to see how we get on. The atmosphere in this band is like no other I have belonged to- we're all good at what we do, we play well together and we have songs that just keep getting stronger.

I'm looking forward to it.

Silversand Horsemanship Clinic - September 2008

This was the fourth clinic I have ridden on this summer, two with Tom Widdicombe and two with Steve Halfpenny and with the September Silversand weekend having been the longest-standing fixture on our clinic timetable it's also the official end of summer as far as we are concerned.

In this case I appear to have taken rather fewer notes than I have in the past. This may be in part because of the sheer effort involved in typing them up, but it’s also because my learning experience means that I can do a lot of the things I have previously documented at least passably and much of what I'm learning now is about a feel in the rein or a way of moving rather than something that is easy to express in writing. I'm not getting things right by any means, but the big picture isn't so bad now and the details are much harder to write down.

I shall endeavour to compensate by having lots of pictures...
( Four days of learning, for horses and humans )

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