Silence of the lambs

Who the f*** thought of this as a film title? Lambs aren't silent.

Nor is the RAF. They're on a mission this morning bombing somewhere west of us and our silence is being punctuated by deep booming rumbles. This is a little worrying as as far as I'm aware the nearest bombing range is a good 30 miles away. There's low cloud cover so maybe the sound is being reflected - but it seems a long way for the sound to travel. Maybe they've just got the wrong bay and are bombing the shit out of some poor tourists. Oh well - a bit of a shame I guess.

Still it's good of the RAF to be so sensitive to the delicate economy up here - much of which relies upon the tourists who come all this way for peace, quiet and the unspoilt. The MOD are in the bad books up here anyway - having accidentally destroyed 350 acres of habitat a couple of weeks ago as a result of playing with tracer bullets (contrary to advice from SNH) - the resultant fire destroyed many coastal and inland habitats including blanket bog that will take a decade to recover, oh and just a few nesting rare birds.

Still we have to protect our oil supplies eh? Sorry I should have said we have to protect democracy and our right to 42 day detention without trail and to be spied upon by any jumped up local official who decides to poke in uninvited.