Monday, February 24, 2003
One of the more memorable weekends.Saturday:
Spent a few precious hours with the love of my life after she'd had a tough week away in the blizzards of New York.
Hopped on an afternoon train to London to experience my first, all-up, no-expense-spared Opera (Rigoletto) at the Coliseum. Fab.
Eight of us caught the Last Train Back - engineering works meant we didn't get in to Cambridge until well after 2, the whole journey spent making each other giggle.
Sat up 'til 4 watching the taped rugby match (knowing I was seeing my brothers the next day, and that there was no way I'd avoid knowing the result).
Sunday:
Dragged self out of bed and drove over to Mum's to help fill a huge skip (and an equally huge bonfire) with 50 years-worth of memories. She's started the process (3 years after Dad died) of clearing out in preparation for starting her New Life in a new place. We stopped for lunch and realised this might be the first time ever that just the five of us (Mum and her four sons) had sat down to eat together. In the early years Dad was always there, and now we all have families of our own in tow. A day full of dust, cobwebs, hibernating bats and laughter.
My older son texted me to say he'd goalkeepered his team to a narrow 18-1 victory in their cup football match.
This raises the bar for weekends to come.
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Forget the sentimental notion that foreign policy is a struggle between virtue and vice, with virtue bound to win.
Forget the utopian notion that a brave new world without power politics will follow the unconditional surrender of wicked nations.
Forget the crusading notion that any nation, however virtuous and powerful, can have the mission to make the world in its own image.
Remember that diplomacy without power is feeble, and power without diplomacy is destructive and blind.
Remember that no nation's power is without limits, and hence that its policies must respect the power and interests of others.
Hans Morgenthau
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts
Bertrand Russell
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one
Albert Einstein
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man
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