Been a while

I've been studying, and preparing for my new job that starts on Monday (eeek!). But, obviously, life has continued in the meantime, and we have made an exciting new discovery.

Cauliflower rice.

It is now an hour after we ate just under half a cauliflower and half a pack of chili Beanfeast each, and T is about to take his BG level.  The suspense is killing me...

In the meantime, I'm about to go political regarding the UK riots and what is being done in the guise of 'justice' to the families of the people who have been accused of being involved.

How bloody dare people think that it is right to try to have whole families evicted from their homes because a member of that family may have been involved in the rioting and looting that has been going on?  How dare they do it if it's proven, and how DARE they do it even before that is the case.

A 12 year old commits a crime, and his whole family stand to lose their home?  Shame on the parents? Oh for gods sake. What about any siblings? Is a 14 year old sister responsible enough for the actions of her 12 year old brother enough so that she should be made homeless?

If there is an underlying cause to the rotten circumstances surrounding the riots, surely some of it is socio-economic poverty, and evicting people is not going to cure that. Sure, cure the symptom - punish those who offended - that is only right. But do those people who are dishing out this crap really honestly think that if the people who rioted are taught a severe enough lesson, the problems will go away? If they do think that, then they are very sorely mistaken.

And as for jailing a 24 year old mum of children aged 1 and 2 years for 5 months for accepting a pair of shorts that were looted, words fail me.  I have never thought that 'making an example' of someone is fair - and I don't care that this woman will probably not serve all her sentence, it is too harsh, unjust, and punishes her family too.

Is this what the country has come to? Does this reek of using the law as a bludgeon to keep those who are actually in need of help under control and cowed?

I think it bloody well does, and I am very, very angry about it.

Gah.

From 7.1 to 10 mmol in an hour. Not so good either.