Breaking news

According to the BBC, the former dictator Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier has returned to Haiti. This won't mean much to those of you under about 40, but this is potentially really worrying. (Especially on top of recent reports taht aid is till not getting through to most of the earthquake victims.)
More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11943820

More words

1478 words today. This rewrite is getting out of hand. Though I think it works better this way in terms of the politics.

"The foreman turned to gawp at him, a dirty scarf hanging from his hand. Jehan recognised its pattern right away, the grey and black of the eschapées, the troublemakers who stirred up workers with talk of higher wages and shorter hours and worse. No mill owner wanted anyone who sympathised with that movement working on their premises. Not, doubtless, that Mademoiselle Pelerin des Puitz had the least idea about that. They never did, the nobles in their fine houses. They knew nothing at all about the world that sustained them."


Skirt of the day: blue flouncey.