Local Girl’s day in pictures

Hello,

You probably noticed I didn’t do a doodle-blog last night as really nothing at all happened that was worth blogging about “That’s never stopped you before!” I hear you cry. I was thinking would anyone have any objection - or do you think it would break the ‘brand’ if I typed my blogs very occasionally when it’s not possible for me to doodle? OR do you think I should start another blog for my words? I think my dayinpictures are way too wordy sometimes so maybe if I did a word blog as well, I could filter all the more cartoony stuff into ‘dip’ - I don’t know, it’s all an experiment. Please let me know!

Anyway, yesterday I was listening to radio 4 (I don’t usually, i hate the radio) but I do like a bit of radio 4 when I am cooking - which I wasn’t really, i was more cleaning & Borja offered to cook & I was only too happy to let him. My mum always said ‘I’d rather cook than clean’ but then again she also always said ‘if you hit me your hands will grow out of your grave’ - just before she hit me. I wonder if she meant just her? So this program was about the whole genome project - you know, should we use gene therapy to eradicate illness from babies ETC - Ooo but won’t that mean designer babies, what about the gay gene? So there was the obligatory scientist with his ‘imagine a world without disease and criminals and ugly people’ (with undertones of AND I CONTROL IT ALL!!) Then the disabled rights guy comes on and he’s all “But without disability there would be no Beethoven & Steven Hawking” Well uh, maybe there would but they wouldn’t have been disabled, maybe if Beethoven could hear he would have finished a damn symphony! maybe if Hawking wasn’t trapped inside a skin prison & spoke like a robot - he still would have written a brief history of time AND he wouldn’t have been abused by his wife, he probably would have had a better wife or at least he could have fought back. His argument was that people don’t realise the quality of life disabled people have, that they assume they must be miserable and wish they were normal but they are really awesome. The presenter then posed the question - what about those kids that have that condition where their skin falls off all the time and they live and die in complete agony - is that what you want? IS IT? Here’s one now, in the studio - shake his hand - NOW HIS HANDS FALLEN OFF AND YOU MADE IT HAPPEN. Well, it was along those lines anyway, but the guy I have to say had no answer whatsoever, poor bloke he was completely stumped.