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Those crazy days of summer
My wife and I are taking our two boys, aged one and three, to Dungeness in Kent. It's a great opportunity to be near a working nuclear power station and to keep track of nuclear fuel trains from Sellafield. It's not the perfect place for sandcastles, but it can apparently be fun to move pebbles around to build drystone castles. We hope to light up a bulb under the power lines at night from the corona discharge into the atmosphere.
Alain de Botton in the Observer (Joseph Palley)
With God on our side
As the beer-swilling head of a dysfunctional family, Homer Simpson seems an unlikely role model for the Church of England. Yet the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks he is just the man to attract youngsters to services. Mixing It Up With the Simpsons by Owen Smith is being sent to Church youth workers. In one episode of the TV show, said Smith, Homer thanks God "most of all for nuclear power, which is yet to cause a single, proven fatality, at least in this country".
Daily Mail (Brendan J O'Byrne)
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