Holy Smoke!

There was a five-alarm fire at St. John the Divine's cathedral in New York this morning. My pictures of the cathedral are here and here. Apparently it started in the gift shop, has caused some damage, but nothing serious to the structure of the cathedral, and is under control. No one was hurt in the fire. There is concern, however, that the smoke has damaged some of the artifacts in the cathedral. See the New York Times article here.

Whinge

Bloody hell my back is sore today .

There is some damned disease going around here that manifests itself as a sinus headache and a backache. Iv has had it for a few days now. The sinus headache I can deal with - I get those often enough anyway - but this backache is most annoying. I can't get comfortable no matter what I do. Grrr.