South Queensferry Daily Photo

When you're not looking; I'm sure that cats get up to all sorts of peculiar stuff. This time, we were looking. This sort of thing isn't seen as particularly odd around here. It's also obvious that our high flying internet cables are an easy target for a cat attack. Or low flying Chinooks, still a common sight around here.

In other, more serious news, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz isn't having much impact on the oil pumping business nearby at Hound Point. It's carrying on regardless and arguably illustrates how little most of us know about the oil industry and its many different markets and the trade between them. I tend to see it all in terms of forecourt fuel prices; I guess that's the common barometer for us all. Also, the economic impacts are about more kinds of cargo than oil.

I'm not an apologist for big oil or big anything else; just noting a general lack of understanding. We forget how joined up and mixed up our world has become. It's far more complicated and diverse than just petrol pump prices. Despite that, an American idiot and an Israeli psychopath can, in their own evil and ignorant ways, pull together and fuck the whole thing up in minutes. There are many good people in the USA, Israel and Iran. Why is it that we allow the absolute zoomers (Bible, Torah and Quran bashers) to be the ones in control?

I should have just stayed quiet after posting the cat photo. However in the evening things brightened up; on TV Steve Carell is very funny in "Rooster" and "Last One Laughing" (Season 2) is a hoot. Simple things etc.