5:45 a.m. looking southwest towards Accrington town centre. Hollins Lane is a row of houses to my right and I am just approaching the post box on Royds Avenue.
It has been burning steadily through most of the night and I fear that my morning walk will become a drenched trudge through the rain. I cut short this morning’s plan to cut through Haworth Park up to Royd Avenue and back down to Hollins Lane.
The Russell Brand scandal (brandal?) continues together coverage in the media which is kind of Bizarre as many of them would have been aware of his exploits for years. His father has been sucked into the mire which conjures up the thought the misdemeanors of the young are a plague on the parents. I suppose there is another tourism approach the powerful at peril of the taint marring your life. There is a question of public policy when publicly funded bodies such as the BBC become embroiled with the shameful exploits such individuals. For example many young men might say if I do as I please even the BBC will turn a blind eye – which means society won’t bother too much. And doubtless those who have denied themselves a lifestyle of reckless promiscuity to stay ‘true’ have been given a wake up call.
The BBC staggers from one moral crisis to another I wonder how long it can go on.
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