Grrr!

Two things got past my (normally quite high) threshold of 
indignance today. 

The first was the news from the mother of a soldier serving in Iraq,
whose rations were so poor that she was supplementing them with
food parcels. As if that wasn't bad enough, she was being charged
postage because the MOD maintain that Iraq isn't a combat zone (!)
and the army are simply on 'peacekeeping duties'.  Makes one
wonder what counts as 'combat'...

The second item involves our so-called government again, but this
time in the role of nanny state. My son's piano tutor, a charming
lady who teaches children at home in her spare time, has had to fit 
(expensive) toughened glass in the windows of her music room.
I hadn't realised that it was an occupational hazard of music
teachers to have bricks lobbed at them while they were working!

Better not let Health & Safety know that the piano has a lid...