And I thought I had a bad Christmas...

We drove to Hastings and Chez Priest. We workshopped, we drank, we ate...then we went for a dosa.

The bad Xmas prize for today has been awarded to a colleague of Chris Evans' - she had to go back to Bangladesh to sort out her family, who have been poisoned. This was deliberate, by some familial acquaintance, so that they could rob the house. The only one left conscious was an 11 year old girl who was paralysed and unable to raise the alarm. Apparently this is reasonably common in this part of the world.

No one died, but as she was visiting the family in hospital, the remnants of the Indian Ocean tsunami hit Bangladesh and they had to evacuate the medical center.

Edmonton stabbings

Crap Christmas theme continues....Shortly before Xmas, a mental patient went nuts in London and stabbed several people, killing one of them. I've just learned from Farah, somewhat belatedly,
that one of the victims was SF writer Roger Levy. I gather he's stable and he might be out of hospital now, but I will check.