28°C; 
; no coudcover, light NE winds. Sunblock factor 20.
60.0 miles
Too hot to ride much faster, so I went to the cafe with the free sunblock. Spent longer rubbing it in and it felt less slimey than previously. That sounds sleazy, but doing vigorous exercise on a very hot day can make the cream float on perspiration, it’s a real hazard if it runs down your forehead into your eyes.
Dragonflies are out! Mainly black and indogo coloured ones.
Birmingham had a false alarm last night. Some interesting stories came out though, apparently people were stealing cars to get home in, I assume public transport was not running then.
Excellent article in yesterday’s The Times with observations on behaviour as a result of last week’s bombings in london. It seems that many are gleefuly claiming some connections with events, " my brother’s mate was in the next train" kind of thing. Many pages have been written about the role of some notorious religions, conversely, Muslin victims get a lot of airtime- a kind of modern propaganda almost. The word "evil" comes up a few times which is very interesting. Good/evil is a philosophy much loved by the religious. You may know of my discomfort with the very concept, there is no good verses evil in the world, there never has been. there is instead only people. I will go into this more some other time.
Another article covers the history of suicide attacks. It describes the first at some point in the mid 1990s. This startled me, especially after recently reading a book on naval warfare in 1945 in the pacific. How odd, it’s inspired by a TV documentory so perhaps I should find out when it’s on.
I don’t have the paper here.
My camera probably needs a clean that smudge is still there, I bet it’s a hair.
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