Wrong kind of rain, Guv...

Well! It's fair old stormy out today - very strong winds and lots of rain. Even if it floods down here, I bet the Water Company will *still* turn round come April and say that there isn't any. Yet Thames Water has recently been sold for a tidy amount, so it must be making a lot of money - Funny, that! Whoda thunk that if you allow private companies to charge people for a vital commodity even when they claim that they're unable to supply it that we'd end up in this situation? I reckon we should allow outside companies to supply water but since running out of water is going to threaten the lives of the very vulnerable (imagine a hospital or a nursing home without water!) and severely bring down the quality of living for everybody else, those at the top should be responsible. Criminally responsible. You hold a community to ransom like that whether through incompetance or negligence, you go to prison. Maybe then people will actually give a shit about the public service they're supposed to provide. Same with public transport. You're chief of a rail network and never repair the tracks, resulting in an accident? Yes the company gets fined, yes the company is forced to put down decent tracks, and because your negligence resulted in the death of 40 people, you are going to prison me old china!

Pregnancy whines du jour:
My back aches
I can't stop burping even though I've just had a Rennie
McFly is giving the bottom of my left lung a good kicking
I have never been so constantly hungry. Last night I ate a huge bit of steak & kidney pie and butternut squash as well as a whole tub of cottage cheese.
What is up with my nipples?

Pregnancy - fleeting cravings

The funny thing about my pregnancy is that instead of craving one thing until I can have it, I've been suddenly craving one thing for about 10 minutes, and then before I can go and get some, it's either gone or it's changed.

Have decided to chronicle mine over one day.

11.25 - shortbread.
12 noon - proper cold cut ham (not the reformed stuff) with lots of English mustard.

EDIT - Alas, this experiment failed as I just felt really ill all afternoon and then needed a nap in the evening. Food was the last thing on my mind.