Did you know about this?

While this tragedy: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22166037#1 and this major funeral: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22151589#1 were being reported, this was also going on: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22168202

A major earthquake hit the Iran/Pakistan border, which caused at least 35 deaths, was the most powerful quake to hit that area in half a century and led to evacuations from buildings around 1,000 miles away.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/17/iran-earthquake-thousands-homeless-pakistan

It made a few headlines. Some people maybe heard a snippet about it, perhaps it flashed up on the TV for a couple of minutes.

But I don't think it got nearly as much coverage as it deserved. Buildings shaking, houses crumbling, lives changes, siblings, mothers, fathers, killed.

The Boston bombings, Margaret Thatcher's funeral AND this catastrophic event need to be heard about far and wide.

What do you think?

Adios, for now.

Ahh, trains

The 'ahh' in the headline is like the 'ahh' in bisto gravy ads, not the 'ahh' in scary moments of life... So, I'm on a train going down south and am struck today by the idiosyncracies of this classic mode of transport. Someone has just started knitting, another is furiously typing on an iphone, and someone else is listening to music. Trains are funny - a bunch of people who don't know each other all sitting in close proximity to one another and trying to avoid everyone else's eye contact. Well, mostly- one guy across the aisle from me started chatting to the knitting person as soon as she got on. As I write this the light is fading. That's another great part of train journeys- the beautiful countryside which you can see (at least for a few seconds) as you zoom by. The light is fading...but holidays are rising on the horizon. Adios