Someone sent me the wheel of lunch, cute but not that clever - try it !

Todd and I took a meander down to the cafeteria this morning, he drug back a salad and i a yoghurt with strawberries. It was quite an invigorating walk - about a mile or so, good job it wasnt raining, but it was bloody cold! I should have worn gloves, that would have helped my hands but not my feet which have still not quite recovered. 

He is a funny fellow, comes up with some of the most curious topics for discussion, today it was about guns. Some celebrity sportsman apparently attacked an intruder in his home in Miami with a machete and got shot. They say, never take a knife to a gun fight - he evidently never heard that pearl of wisdom.

Todd said he couldnt understand why people would want to outlaw guns, after all the genie is out of the bottle so to speak, there are so many in circulation how do you curtail their presence.  He revealed that he had bought one and then sold it, had bought it for self defense and recreation. Though I have fired guns and find them fascinating I am not sure i could convince myself that having one for self defense would be such a smart thing. i was always taught that having a gun made you a target for someone wanting that gun! England is a classic example of a place where having a weapon is largely impossible in the form of a handgun or semi automatic rifle yet they still exist and are used regularly in crimes.

We concluded that if you really are so anxious about your personal safety and in particular in the event of a home invasion, then the solution is to have a gun, sure, have a mobile phone with adequate coverage, have a good strong lockable door to your bedroom and have an alarm system with a claxon so that the entire neighborhood knows when you are under attack. If there's an intruder, why bother trying to confront them, they may take you out in the process of trying to escape getting caught - are chattles worth your life?