The European Court of Human Rights ruled last year that the terms of whole-life sentences must be reviewed at some point. The court ruled that while it accepted whole-life orders could be justified, there should nevertheless be some way of having a sentence reviewed after 25 years.

Following that, the UK Court of Appeal is set to announce its ruling on whether whole-life prison terms for some killers are legal.

What? Does society want these convicted murderers living amongst us at some time in the future?

A representative of the Attorney General said the European Court judgment did not remove the right of judges to impose a whole-life term. Rather, the state should question whether there should be a later review. If a sentencing court decided that because of the seriousness of the offense, a minimum term should not be fixed; the court must impose a whole-life order rather than be unduly lenient.

The Court of Appeal had already set out very clear principles and guidance on how whole-life orders could be imposed.

At the moment, UK uses these rules for sentencing using guidelines according to schedule 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003:

·         A whole life order for "exceptionally" serious offenses

·         30 years for the murder of a police or prison officer on duty - and murders involving firearms or explosives; for gain; to obstruct or interfere with the course of justice; involving two or more persons; involving sexual or sadistic conduct; or aggravated by race, religion or sexual orientation

·         25 years where the offender took a knife or other weapon to the scene

·         15 years for all other offenses

Under the US system, very long prison sentences are often imposed by states as an alternative to the death penalty. In August last year, Ariel Castro, who abducted three women and held them captive for more than a decade, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, plus 1,000 years. He was found hanged in his cell in Ohio in September.

I don't want cereal rapists, pedophiles, cannibals and murderers out on the streets to continue their amoral rampage. People should know that if they commit crimes against the social order, tax-paying citizens will not support them indefinitely. Surely, they give up their human rights when they first embark on heinous crimes.

You might wonder why I chose this subject today. Have a look over what happened and see if you can pin-point the reason.
Information. (from around the world)

US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean (Jan. 4).

George Herbert Walker Bush inaugurated as 41st US President (Jan. 20).

Iran declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death (Feb. 14).

Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square (April 19). More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across nation (mid-May). Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators (June 4).

Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President (May 25). P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's President (Aug. 14). Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership (Nov. 9).

After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West (Nov. 11).

Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government (Dec. 15 et seq.); President Ceausescu and wife executed (Dec. 25).

US troops invade Panama, seeking capture of General Manuel Noriega (Dec. 20).

A San Francisco Bay area earthquake measuring 7.1 in magnitude, killed 67 and injured over 3,000. Over 100,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. (Oct. 17)

Movies: Glory, Born on the Fourth of July, My Left Foot, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Field of Dreams.

First World Wide Web server and browser developed by Tim Berners-Lee (England) while working at CERN.

Well. It's none of the above. Twenty-five years ago, I married Brian. We looked so different then--both mature yet vital. After separating from my first husband in Australia, I arrived in England in 1988 with two suitcases, a booking at a nurses' hostel in London, and a link to a nanny agency. I chose a job within a week and went off to live with a family comprising mother, father and 3 month-old baby. I spent the first year exploring my new country and traveled the world with my employers who worked in advertising and the film industry.

Loneliness set in. And then I met Brian. We married on Feb. 19th 1989. As usual, he's left an anniversary card on the table so I can see first thing in the morning. He's never forgotten the occasion and tells me every day how much he loves me.

Society all over the world, and our understanding of how things work, has changed so much over that twenty-five year period. So has the availability of jobs to unqualified people. Back then, I took the job of nanny based on my experience of motherhood.

What do you regard as the most important event?

Along with changes in society like de-population of rural areas, plus water shortages and climate, food production is under threat—tea crops in particular.  Simply pour hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis to prepare the calming beverage. Life without tea is unthinkable for billions of people who rely on the comfort of cuppas to get them through the day.

Here in England, tea is my main drink—no coffee for me. First thing in the morning I sip tea made with a tea-bag and add a dash of milk. Another follows after breakfast and a third accompanies lunch. But it's not only the fermented tea I enjoy. I like a mug full of fennel tea followed by mixed berry tea later in the afternoon. My husband and I drink peppermint tea with our evening meal. These last drinks are probably more beneficial.

Earth's environment is in danger. California is suffering the worst drought for 100 years, Canada is snowbound, and England is underwater. Worldwide fluctuating weather patterns are causing problems in some tea-growing areas too, which will affect yields and prices. Many rural people in tea-producing countries migrate to the cities in search of work. Tea picking is a laborious job. There are growing concerns over the future availability of the workforce. Workers' and farmers’ income has lowered recently, due to the rising cost of fertilizers and labor.

The global sustainability non-profit Forum for the Future launched a new program today. The Future of Tea – A Hero Crop for 2030.

After a year’s research, a collaboration between some of sector’s biggest players have gathered information about tea using the resources of International Tea Committee, UK Tea Council, Somo, and Forum for the Future.

·         Next to water, tea is the world's most popular drink.

·         More than 3 billion cups of tea are consumed every day across the world.

·         Tea was first produced in China more than 5,000 years ago.

·         Tea contains half the amount of caffeine found in coffee.

·         Worldwide consumption of tea grew by 60% between 1993 and 2010. Since 2002 tea prices at auction have more than doubled as global demand has grown faster than production.

·         Next to tourism, tea is India's biggest industry.

·         Tea production is often more energy intensive than steel production.

·         Seven multinational corporations are responsible for 90% of the tea market.

·         Thirty-five countries around the world produce tea. Three quarters of the world’s tea is produced in just five countries: China, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

·         The tea plant is very sensitive to climate conditions, and yet the countries where it is grown are amongst the most vulnerable to future climate change. So serious are these threats, that some of the world's biggest tea companies are joining forces to combat them.

How about you? Do you like tea?

A passenger has died after a cruise ship was hit by a large wave in the English Channel. Storms and high winds raged overnight here in England.

The 22,000-tonne vessel was returning from a 42-night voyage in the Azores when water crashed through a window of the UK-based cruise ship MS Marco Polo. An 85-year-old man and a woman in her 70s were airlifted off the ship but the man later died. Several more people of the 735 passengers on board suffered minor injuries.

The poor couple, traveling home from the trip of a lifetime, never suspected it would end in death.

If you read this plot in a novel, you'd dismiss the occurrence as unlikely. Yet truth is often stranger than fiction. In my series of Moonstone books, the first two of which are on the sidebar, I used snippets from news stories as a base to write the interludes. The heroine, Liliha, wears a star moonstone ring which induces visions. Liliha arrives in an unknown situation and whispers advice to those in trouble. Just like the little guiding voice we all hear. Here's one such vision from the novel I'm working on at the moment, Seashell Effect. The excerpt started out as a 30 word story I found in the newspaper. See if you think it's improbable.

The atmosphere charged the air with power. Zaps and buzzes foretold a coming vision. Somehow, the sound didn't bode well. Liliha clenched her stomach as consciousness faded. Sweet ambrosia accompanied her while she penetrated the churning disparity.

* * *

I'm standing in the dark--inky blackness ahead, but lights and muffled sounds come from behind. Legs beneath me adjust to a lurch beneath our feet. I've already merged with an intoxicated mind. Not sure if the dizzy effect comes from within or without. Where are we? The wind roars. Hair whips into my face. Her face.

Another lurch makes the surface slant beneath our feet. I tighten our muscles and whisper, 'Careful'.

"Jamie," a female voice calls. "Come inside. The sea's rough out there."

Ah. We're on the deck of a ship.

Dizzy, Jamie leans over a railing while I probe inside her. Goose bumps rise on the bare arms emerging from her light evening dress. She's just left two friends to get a breath of fresh air. The surface underfoot tilts.

We lose balance.

Topple over the barrier. Flail the air. Plummet down, down.

Hit. Swishing noises.

Our vision blurs. Can't breathe.

She's going into shock and dragging me with her.

'Wake up. Your life depends on it'. Thrash. Kick. Skirt catches on our legs. Try to reach a faint glint against the drag of downward momentum. Flaying arms take us up and up.

Head breaks into the air. Breathe one lungful after another. Glimpse hundreds of lights while waves lash our head.

Submerged again.

Jamie's jumbled thinking reveals the name of the ship she's left. The Princess Seaways ferry. We're in the North Sea.

Gasp. Break surface again and breathe. Movements jerky. Cold numbing our limbs.

Yell. Someone might hear over the raging storm, otherwise this holiday will end in death.

Too weak. So cold.

Keep moving. Concentrate. Look at the lights.

No. They're growing smaller with each lunge.

Concentrate. I must keep Jamie alive until help reaches her. Chances are against rescue. Yet, why am I here if the task is hopeless? First, give comfort, and then search for someone to help.

I breathe assurances into her mind. 'Keep afloat. They'll search for you. Never stop moving. Your chances are good. The propeller didn't suck you under. You only need to survive for a short time. Concentrate on the comfort of the coming rescue. Think of your loved ones'. Don't let her worry about the unthinkable.

Although regret sears me, the desperation of her plight impels me to leave her. Abandon her.

While she fights the paralysis in her chilled limbs, I disengage and soar up and over toward the lights. On the lower deck, uniformed men toss an inflatable overboard and others hold the rope firm. Commands swirl in the wind while people scramble aboard. The outboard motor roars.

In the black night, they battle the waves. The throb of the ship's powerful engines fades. Shouts from hopeless voices penetrate the background of the raging storm.

I hover over the inflatable. Inside, the men are straining forward.

I concentrate on Jamie's whereabouts because they have to decide which way to search. With my guidance and calm assurances broadcast into their collective minds, the searchers set out in the right direction despite the lashing waves. I'm relieved they picked up my message.

In a flash, I'm back with Jamie.

Numbing cold. Hard to move. Tired.

'Fight', I whisper. 'Never give up. Help is close. Kick for all you're worth'.

Why bother? Too cold.

She needs a memory to give incentive. I emerge deep into her mind and find Darren--laughing, full of life and love. She grasps the image. 'You need to prove worthy. Show how you can fight any adversity. Think of the stories you can tell your children'.

Warmth washes over her to mix with the alcohol and adrenalin in her blood.

One more task. Direct the men to find her in the howling sea. I zap over to the inflatable to check their position.

"She must have drowned, Tom," one man says to another.

"She's been in the cold too long."

In a flash, I've merged with Tom and read his concern. Nobody has ever been recovered alive in these conditions, if found at all. I whisper, 'On the left, between the waves. See that clothing?'

We train the torch in the vicinity. The swell heaves and rolls.

'Look', I whisper.

"Try the starboard, Tom."

"Wait," he says. "I think I saw something." Tom, with me inside him, focuses on an object bobbing behind the spray. "There," he shouts. "Steer that way."

With a sigh of relief, I rise above the men heading for Jamie while she bobs, sinks, and breaks surface again.

At last they lift her dripping body. My consciousness fades.

* * *

A quick glance either way along the street assured Liliha no one had spotted her long pause. Heartbeat pounded in her ears without the raging storm to drown out other sounds. Impossible to remain unaffected after the rescue, but somehow she managed to calm her shaking limbs and continue walking. Although the odds were against a rescue, Jamie hadn't succumbed to defeat.

Story one. For sale, by auction: One wife

The wife auction drawing appeared in England's Illustrated Police News in 1870.

Sometimes, the first passion dies and a marriage doesn't work out. After the ignition of the fiery spark, the heat leaves the relationship and ash covers the lover's hearts.

In Victorian Britain, divorce was a practical impossibility for everyone but the wealthy in society. That may be the reason why a navvy in Lancashire who'd grown tired of married life, reverted to an old English custom.

I had to look this up in Wikipedia. Here is the information in brief:

'Wife selling in England probably began in the late 17th century. After parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband would publicly auction her to the highest bidder. Although the custom had no basis in law and sometimes resulted in prosecution, judges were loath to prosecute the husband because he needed the money to save him from maintaining the family in workhouses.

Wife selling persisted in England in some form until the early 20th century. In one of the last reported instances of a wife sale in England, a woman giving evidence in a Leeds police court in 1913 claimed that she had been sold to one of her husband's workmates for £1.'

In our 1870 story, the cooling Lancashire navvy offered up his wife for auction to the highest bidder at the home they'd shared together. Sheffield and Rotherham Independent stated that 'despite Solomon's testimony as to a woman being more precious than rubies, and notwithstanding that the spectators were numerous, the highest offer was only 4d [4 pence]'. The seller wanted to throw in three children, but the buyer objected, and the youngsters remained. The wife, however, seemed quite glad to escape her husband's flare-up and retreated to safety at her next-door neighbor's home.

Read nine more bizarre love stories at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26136764

Story two. A volcano erupted on Thursday in east Java.

Thousands of people are evacuating their homes in Indonesia. So far two deaths have occurred after houses collapsed under the weight of ash from the powerful eruption on the main island, Java. This has led to the temporary closure of three international airports.

Natural disaster authorities said more than 50 eruptions occurred. The volcano continues to spit gas and lava as high as 13,00 feet this morning. Ash and gravel flew as far as 200km (124 miles) away, National Disaster Mitigation Agency reported.

Officials raised an alert on Thursday around an hour before the volcano erupted, and urged around 200,000 people living in 36 villages in a 10km (6 mile) radius around the volcano to evacuate.

AFP news agency reported some of the evacuees tried to visit their houses this morning to gather clothing and valuables, but were forced to turn back by the continuous stream of volcanic ash and rocks from the volcano. Some families have lost all their possessions.

The thick dust makes it dangerous for pedestrians and vehicles to be on the road, and authorities say residents are volunteering to sweep the streets.

Experts say the volcano tends to rest after a large eruption, and further spewing is unlikely. The volcano last erupted in 1990, killing dozens of people. A powerful eruption in 1919 killed around 5,000 people.

With 130 active volcanoes, Indonesia lies across a series of geological fault-lines and is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Earlier this month, Mount Sinabung on the island of Sumatra erupted, killing at least 14 people.

And so, the passionate fire dies, leaving cooling ash behind in both our stories. Let's hope possessions can be reclaimed after the Earth settles.

Health chiefs at UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence say exercise should be the principal treatment for osteoarthritis. The condition should not be deemed an inevitable part of ageing that will only get worse.

Many patients believe nothing they do will lessen their discomfort. Let's face it—when you're in agony, you don't want to make it worse. But the opposite is the case. Your pain will actually lessen.  The institute insists that physical exertion can help the condition, ease pain and vastly improve the lives of osteoarthritis sufferers.

Nice also called for GPs to refer patients to surgeons for possible joint replacements before they became incapacitated—rather than it being a last line of treatment. They state that the patient’s age, sex, smoking history or whether they are obese should not be barriers to referral for joint surgery.

 Physiotherapists provide effective treatment for the symptoms of osteoarthritis and deliver expert advice on physical activity and weight-management strategies to reduce pain and improve mobility.

Exercise in any form like classes, swimming, and walking, aids the day-to-day management of the condition and the positive impact on quality of life.

Nice said overweight patients should be encouraged to lose weight while prescribed drugs should be considered for pain relief. Find a type of exercise you enjoy doing, take some pain relief if needed and get on with gardening, walking or gentle work around the home.

Of course, everyone can benefit from some sort of exercise, regardless of their condition. Get outside to feel the breeze on your face, hear the birds twitter and tread over the earth's surface. Walking is simple, free and one of the easiest ways to get more active, lose weight and become healthier.

First thing every morning, I do stretching exercises while I stand and bend, and then sit down to sip tea while I stretch my neck, face and back with movements recommended by a physiotherapist. Yes, I have osteoarthritis. Yes, when I sit too long I become stiff. And yes, I agree that daily exercise has kept me mobile. How about you?

The extraordinary weather looks likely to affect food prices. What with droughts in California, searing heat in Australia and unprecedented flooding expected in England, crops will suffer.

Flooded farmland can't grow food items. Neither can Earth's parched soil in farms and orchards.

England: Parts of the UK are facing continued flooding. Forecasters warn a further band of stormy weather could mean the strongest winds of the winter. And it said groundwater levels were so high in some parts of the country that flooding was likely to persist for weeks or even months.

Thousands of properties have flooded over the past week while homeowners have been warned many more are at risk. In some areas, the Army, the police force, the fire service are giving much needed support. Local people have arrived in droves with gifts of warm blankets, sleeping bags and food. One woman even offered a house to a family for three months. People band together in times of need.

However, there are fears that a lack of English crops will drive food prices higher.

California: With gold rush of almond sales booming because of their health benefits, the drought in California could lead to a world shortage of the nut. Eighty-two per cent of the world's almonds come from America's Golden State—the leading agricultural export. The trees need about 500-700 hours of dormancy followed by a frost-free period when they burst into life—usually around Valentine's Day.

The cost of almonds has almost doubled over the past five years. Farmers don't know if they'll survive a fourth year of drought. Nobody knows what Mother Nature will release in the future.

Australia: As the Australian drought continues to worsen, relief is to be provided for the outback farmers.

In 2014, major weather events such as floods, cyclones or other disasters could affect food production and pricing, but these are difficult to accurately predict. In Australia, the lucky country, the food supply is diverse, which means that single bad weather events are only likely to affect the price of a few products.

Overall: Research from scientists at the U.S. National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina reveal a culprit: an increase in greenhouse gases, generated by human activity, is forcing global temperatures upward.

Warmer air can support more water and heavy rain is increasing worldwide.  The environment is suffering. Society needs to band together to prevent further damage to our Earth.

Queen have made UK chart history by becoming the first act to sell six million copies of an individual album.

No—not that one, although Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 11 certainly deserves an award. She's served her country since she took over the throne as a young woman. Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states, known as the Commonwealth realms, and their territories and dependencies, and head of the 53-member Commonwealth of Nations. Through the trauma over her 60 year reign, including the 'anus horriblus' after Princess Diana's death, she has worked steadfastly.  When I reach the age of 87, I wish I could spend so much time on my feet, listening, talking, and looking interested during tours of various businesses. That's dedication—maybe bordering on heroism.

The musical group Queen's first Greatest Hits collection, which includes the hits We Will Rock You and Bohemian Rhapsody, has extended its lead after being Britain's highest-selling album for several years. The Official Charts Company said one in three British families now owned a copy of the 1981 compilation.

The Official Charts Company said the album, which also features Another One Bites The Dust, Bicycle Race and Fat Bottomed Girls, regularly sells several thousand copies per week, particularly around Christmas.

Queen guitarist Brian May said the feat was "incredible". Brian Harold May CBE is an English musician, singer, songwriter and astrophysicist who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of Queen. He uses a home-built guitar, "Red Special".

I wrote a song for the Olympic Games held in London in 2012. Never managed to reach the right ears though. In my imagination, Brian May would sit on Buckingham Castle roof and play the opening tune. Dreams are all very well, but it takes a great band to reach success.

As a performer, lead singer Freddy Mercury, who died in 1991, was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range. What a voice.

Although I didn't want to look at him in the 70s when my children were teenagers, I loved his voice. Fat Bottomed Girls & Bicycle would be blaring from my daughter Karen's bedroom, a converted second kitchen in our old cottage in Robe, South Australia. Karen would call me every time one of the Queen songs came over the radio. Those memories are precious to me since her death about 5 years ago.

I guess we all have memories of where we were and what we were doing when one of Queen's songs rose in the charts. Over the years, I appreciate the genius of Freddie Mercury's unique style and range even more. No wonder the songs Queen released have remained popular over the decades, and the Greatest Hits album has risen to become a classic.

Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England.

The people's footprints are more than 800,000 years old and were found on the shores of Happisburgh. The markings were first identified in May last year during a low tide and brought to the attention of the Imperial College London. Rough seas had eroded the sandy beach to reveal a series of elongated hollows. Scientists took photos of the very rare discoveries before the tide covered the evidence once again. The Happisburgh footprints are the only ones of this age in Europe and there are only three other sets that are older, all of which are in Africa. See full BBC news story. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26025763

A sonar study of the English Channel confirmed that Britain became separated from mainland Europe after Earth's catastrophic flood some time before 200,000 years ago. Before that time, a narrow isthmus linked Britain to continental Europe.

The solar images revealed deep scars on the Channel bed that must have been cut by a sudden, massive discharge of water. Scientists told the journal Nature that the torrent probably came from a giant lake in what is now the North Sea. They believe an event like an earthquake breached the lake's rim at the Dover Strait.

The theory is that hundreds of thousands of years ago, ice sheets had pushed down from Scotland and Scandinavia. Palaeo-researchers think the fault was bounded by a large lake to the northeast that was filled by glacial meltwaters, fed by ancient versions of the rivers Thames and Rhine. Once the ridge was broken, the island of Britain came into being. The discharge would have been spectacular. At its peak, it is believed that the megaflood could have lasted several months, discharging an estimated one million cubic meters of water per second.

I can only speculate on what will happen to the flooded island of Britain now. The pressure of water lying in certain areas would wield a tremendous force. How can it drain away? I heard news broadcast the other day that emergency operations were pumping water away from some areas with a volume exceeding an Olympic swimming pool every few minutes.

Some time ago, I discovered that a fault lay across the lower half of England. The scientist giving the talk postulated that one day in the future, the lower half of the island would rise above the top after the split. That information fed into my fertile imagination about a Great Flood in four futuristic books co-written with Edith Parzefall. The series begins with Wind Over Troubled Waters, which you can see on the sidebar, one click away from Amazon. Double Dragon publishing will release a further novel, Seaweed Ribbons, soon. But the books are pure fiction.

I pray a future split in Britain's fault line will not arrive for many eons. Otherwise, scientists of the future might find twenty-first century man's footprints set in stone around our coast.

I know this idea seems tenuous, but I hope to establish a mental jump between the human brain and the environment. Together, we might be able to control the weather. Call me fanciful—well, I'm an author.

More warnings were issued in the UK about at least three more days of heavy rain and flooding as the west coast counted its losses following the arrival of Winter Storm Hercules. The system left behind a record-breaking deep freeze in the US. I hope those affected are recovering.

Last night a flood siren, warning of extreme danger to people and property, filled the air in Dorset because of gales and tidal surges battering the coast. Waves have destroyed many ancient cliff constructions all around the south coast.

Yesterday waves were recorded as high as 27ft at Land's End. Reports on surfing websites suggested scores of professional big wave chasers had followed Hercules' advance across the Atlantic. Just as the WWW connects like-minded people all over the world, websites link surfers.

I want to point out the miraculous contact between people at our fingertips right now. The connection has never happened before. Back in the 40s, I wouldn't have thought such an exchange possible. Pen-palls were the closest we children came to getting to know someone who lived overseas. I've made some really good blogging friends over the last year. Amy, who blogs about home-schooling, organic food, a beautiful way to live, and family life  http://vomitingchicken.com/ and Alana, who talks about plants in New York, civil war and chocolate. http://ramblinwitham.blogspot.co.uk/

The net also assists writers, and more particularly, co-writers. Edith Parzefall & I wrote four futuristic novels together, starting with Wind Over Troubled Waters. All my books are based in Cornwall, at the southern tip of England. I love the mystical area. You'll see the books on the sidebar, one click away from Amazon.

This is how we wrote together:

Edith is based in Germany whereas I live near London—1 hour apart. We worked well together, gave respect and patience, sometimes sending more than 20 emails a day. At the start, we picked characters. We tried to keep them distinctive, although we went over each other’s work constantly. We wrote very fast and sent each scene in our character's point of view to our partner before she wrote the next one from another perspective. I did all the character profiles, but Edith chucked them out the window as each person in the novel developed. Still, it was good to have something to disregard.

You will note how I'm leading up to a connection of minds without physical presence. Of course, the same thing happens with the telephone although people can't share pictures or documents that way.

We know the mind possesses great power. Thoughts become things in the air around us, as proven by Russian scientists in the 40s. According to the renowned psychic Edgar Cayce, every action, every thought, every idle word sets up reactions, according to the Universal Law.

In the past, I've proven that, with enough force behind my belief in being able to 'move a mountain'; I could influence weather far away. A cyclone I concentrated on disappeared from the atmosphere. Hard to believe—I'm sure. I felt credulous at the time. At the present moment, as they have for decades, people living along the San Andreas Fault line send calming emanations into the air to keep the earth stable.

And so, with that unsubstantiated link demonstrated, I wonder if every person reading this blog (normally between 200 to 700 visits) would send a prayer, wish, or earnest desire to England and help us calm the raging storm.