The scenes from London that have greeted us on our TV screens over the last day or two have been utterly repugnant, and there can be no excuse or mitigation for the young people  that have brought anarchy to the streets of this great City.

To witness homes and businesses burning, for no apparent reason, is just devastating, especially at a time when so many are already struggling to make an honest living.

Forget human rights for a moment, simply round up the perpetrators, lock them up, and throw away the key!

OK, so now I will try to calm down and explain the real reason for my post…..

As I left home this morning having witnessed the fires in London on my TV, you can imagine my surprise in arriving at the Bodega only to find firefighters battling brush fires a few hundred metres from our very own front door. In previous posts I have already mentioned that we have not had much rainfall since winter, and so it was only a matter of time I guess, before we should expect the brush and forest fires to start popping up around our region.

Fortunately this morning’s outbreak did not rage out of control, despite a fresh breeze, and our local Bomberos soon had the flames extinguished.

The scenes from London that have greeted us on our TV screens over the last day or two have been utterly repugnant, and there can be no excuse or mitigation for the young people  that have brought anarchy to the streets of this great City.

To witness homes and businesses burning, for no apparent reason, is just devastating, especially at a time when so many are already struggling to make an honest living.

Forget human rights for a moment, simply round up the perpetrators, lock them up, and throw away the key!

OK, so now I will try to calm down and explain the real reason for my post…..

As I left home this morning having witnessed the fires in London on my TV, you can imagine my surprise in arriving at the Bodega only to find firefighters battling brush fires a few hundred metres from our very own front door. In previous posts I have already mentioned that we have not had much rainfall since winter, and so it was only a matter of time I guess, before we should expect the brush and forest fires to start popping up around our region.

Fortunately this morning’s outbreak did not rage out of control, despite a fresh breeze, and our local Bomberos soon had the flames extinguished.