Defence News

Much trimming of the height of the holly tree with my fabulous 3m DeWalt pole chainsaw. One of these days I must put on the t-shirt. 
Then a birl over town as the SK’s cute car has a slow flat from a screw embedded in the tread. I’m sold two new tyres – as the SK rarely goes further than her aunt’s care home or Waitrose, she got their budget range.
Big news of the day was an air crash in India, made somehow all the more newsworthy by the fact that one man walked away from it almost unscathed. When you see the plane crashing into buildings and exploding in a fireball shortly after take-off, that’s all the more incredible. Seat11A is the place to be 

Well, that was all the big news and I overlooked a post by Patrick Wintour in the Guardian at 8:30pm headlined, “Trump warns of ‘massive conflict’ soon if Iran nuclear talks break down.”  
His warning came after the International Atomic Energy Agency issued its strongest condemnation of Iran in 20 years as it said the country had continued to enrich uranium to near weapons-grade levels and had failed to comply with its nuclear nonproliferation obligations.
Iran responded defiantly, calling the censure a “political resolution” and announcing it had built and would activate a third site to enrich uranium that could produce fissile material used to make a nuclear weapon.
And Julian Borger had an accompanying Analysis piece:
The Israeli government has approached the same precipice, of a war to destroy Tehran’s nuclear programme, several times in the past two decades, going as far as honing detailed plans and conducting practice air sorties.
On each occasion, there have been briefings in Washington that Israel means business and could act on its own. Each time, however, Israel has held back in the absence of US support.
 
Friday tomorrow. Hurrah.