Mid-life crisis? Join the club...

Scientists have observed that primates (and I don't mean the ecclesiastical kind) do experience the equivalent of a mid-life crisis. so I'm happy to find that I'm in the very best of company. Imagine what they'd be like if they had beer and cable TV....yep, correct. Just like us.

It's a neat reminder that, whatever else we are, we are all part of nature and part of the cosmos. It makes all the scratching, grunting and chest-beating that we see in our legislators seem sadly inevitable.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/20359229

Driving Focus

I have been watching my son wrestle with the problem of getting motor insurance as a young man of only 19, and I've been really impressed with watching the way he has refused to back down in the face of madly yoyo-ing online quotations. It's clear that he is completely committed to running this car, and he is showing some serious resourcefulness in making it happen. He really wants it, and I'm doing my Proud Dad routine while I watch him beating the whole issue into submission. I've given him the whole lecture about how much it's really going to cost him, and, for sure, he has nodded and 'heard' what I've been saying in that rather detached and amused way that teenagers have when their parents try to teach them something that they don't want to learn.

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