Country life II

Just to add to what I was saying before re the benefits of country living:

• Nobody has torched, broken, robbed or injured anything in my street or town.

This is something that I am very grateful for (my house is utterly un-riot-proof) but it is just a matter of chance that we haven't been affected. Had we been at either of our previous two addresses in London this past week we would have been right in the heart of it. My heart goes out to the people who have lost things dear to them over the last week. The UK has enough to deal with without its own people turning on each other.

It must've been terrifying to be in the police this past week. What a fantastic job they and their families have done to stay calm and strong and restore some peace.