Water

The water coming out of Manor Green Road, last noticed at reference 1, was still coming out yesterday. But there was a white van from SQS sitting there, a known sub-contractor to Thames Water, last noticed at reference 2, at the other end of the road.

Water which I thought had switched from the far side of the light grey patch to the near side. Was the patch, or whatever was underneath it, implicated in some way?

Maybe Thames Water are trying out the theory that it is a waste water rather than a water supply problem.

The other day I mentioned my shock at finding that I remembered nothing of a volcano related catastrophe in Columbia.

Then today, I was reminded of four even bigger catastrophes by our free local paper, only one of which did I remember about. It is very odd - and not very creditable, how these things seem to get blotted out when they happen somewhere else. Did I remember the tsunami because I was working at the time with a chap who had married a girl from the region, who had close relatives out fishing at the time? As their luck would have it, their boat was protected by an island when the tsunami struck and they survived, albeit having been missing for a few days. See references 3 thru 6.

PS 1: in my last post, I noticed a piece in the FT about arming India and Pakistan for their next round. It occurred to me that something that Prime Minister Modi and President Putin have in common is that they both covet large chunks of next door real estate to which they do not have very good claim. Modi more or less in possession and Putin trying very hard for same. Modi pushing the Hindu agenda and Putin pushing the Great Russian Slav agenda. Both coming with language and religious trimmings. Both coming from places with lots of minorities and lots of languages. Maybe this helps Modi's continuing purchase of Russian oil along.

PS 2: digging deeper, I don't know that I knew anything about the Bengal famine of the 1940s before I noticed it at reference 7 and very little, until fairly recently, about the scale of the famine which resulted from the Great Leap Forward in China. And then there is the famine in the Ukraine between the Civil War and what the Russians call the Great Patriotic War. I dare say I could find a handy list of all these dreadful events in Wikipedia.

PS 3: Tolstoy might have been a great writer, but I believe that he was also very into the Slav project and he did fight the Turks (and us) in the Crimea. Maybe that keeps him on school curriculars now.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/11/blood.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2025/11/more-home-affairs.html.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bhola_cyclone.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tangshan_earthquake.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami. The one I remembered.

Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake.

Reference 7: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-bengal-famine-of-1943.html.