Sicko Moles

First it was red mite,then cabbage whites and last week it was the gale force winds that threatened the allotment. Today we have "attack of the moles". Long mole runs zigzag across the chicken runs and more importantly they infiltrate the vegetable patches, up ending my sown broad beans and shallots.

One of the neighbours is kindly getting me some traps, and after watching the delightful Harry Dodson in the The Wartime Kitchen Garden I think I can actually use them.(mind you the above picture IS kinda cute),on a happier note:
Stanley's hen house is being delivered on Friday, so perhaps I can buy his three or four concubines on Saturday.

Months and months after it was released Theatre Clwyd has finally shown the film Sicko (2007) tonight.and although I find Michael Moore films rather too contrived and ever so flippant, his review of the American health care system is well worth seeing. In an entertaining and sobering 2 hours Moore explores the US's efforts to establish free health and traces it's failure to President Richard Nixon's deceptive support of the then-emerging HMOs pursuing huge profits and subsequent pressures for Congress to sacrifice sound health care in favor of corporate profit.
The film ends with three emergency service hero's of the 9/11 attacks who cannot afford the health care costs in the United States, being ferried over to Cuba to receive first class health care they only dreamed about getting at home. Their reactions to the kindness and free-at-the-point -of -delivery care ,I found , incredibly moving.

Moore's side-swipe at Hilary Clinton's u turn at her initial health care reforms during her husband's presidency must be incredibly painful given her efforts to enter the White house at this time, and as a Brit with little knowledge of American dirty politics I found the whole thing extremely interesting! However it was an articulate and erudite Tony Benn, who stole the show, with a moving speech on the virtues of the National Health Service.I could listen to him talk all night long.

A good 9/10