Scary stuff.

Listening to the wireless this morning having been woken before dawn to the sound of sleet sliding down the windows I was scared witless by the fact that the Chernobyl disaster was 30 years ago.

Forget the fact that I have forgotten most of what has happened in between, it was the fact that 30 years ago I was sat on a roof terrace in Selsey Herb & Goat Farm with Mrs O drinking bubbly in scorching hot sunshine. The wind was from the East and Bilbo, our lummox of a Labrador at the time was not the slightest bit interested – beer would have had him drooling.

Today it is faux fur trapper hat, thermal gloves and heavy duty stormproof gear and I am finding it difficult to stand up in the howling Westerly. I’m beginning to distrust the BBC forecast now. No way is this a 21 knot wind.

Chernobyl was not on my mind last night as I wondered at the firmament.The Plough certainly raised a question. I missed the chance of the Lyrid meteors owing to bright moonshine and cloud earlier in the week. I doubt I could be an astronomer though given how long it took me to thaw out from this session with an average 25 second exposure.

All of that stuff out there was no doubt caused a millions of Chernobyls and it makes me wonder at how insignificant we are and how many other worlds there are out there screwing things up;

• with tycoons fleecing companies,
• politicians treating us like we are all illiterates whilst they themselves screw us by taking more money yet they will not even talk to a junior doctor,
• refugees fleeing penury and worse beingturned away yet these same politicians have collective heads like collanders when it comes to recent European history, or is it selective recall?
• No, look up into the sky and wonder just how a seemingly educated country elected this lot in for a majority term.

Somewhere out there there must a complete opposite of what we are doing.