Pretty unbelievable really. You come that far. You get cars on the roads, iPhones in the kids hands, you manage to keep drinks cold and keep rooms warm, and yet ash can keep millions from the air. Ash. The same ash from ye olde times, you know…big bangs and dinosaurs.
As my younger brother, Luke, pointed out earlier on, with all this one can’t help but be reminded of a certain song from the late American folk singer, Malvina Reynolds. The Little Mouse.
A little mouse got into the wires
At the central clearing house in Buenos Aires.
One little mouse short circuited the computers,
Says a press dispatch from Reuters….
You can have a national public sector strike and get a letter in the post, hop onto a Dublin Bus or go shopping around town. Volcanic ash from Iceland but, that’ll ruin your weekend.


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