Global and local

After a day in the office attending a seminar (on research funding, since you ask), I came home thinking that I might have a little doze - but I discovered firstly this planning notification in the post (not quite sure what to think about it) and then switched on the computer and discovered that Mubarak had just resigned. I didn't have the presence of mind to blip it but Feorlean did.

I keep hearing Richard Thompson's song Pharoah in my head - couldn't find a decent version by himself but the House Band do a very decent version.

Pharoah he sits in his tower of steel
About his feet the princes kneel
Far beneath we shoulder the wheel
Everybody's working for the Pharoah.