Being in the middle of nowhere, means News often filters through insidiously through various channels or doesn't at all. So if Michael Jackson came back to life or an Earthquake swallowed the UK, I would be none the wiser.
But when this rather unheard of, previously anonymous volcano, in the middle of the Land of Ice, opened its top and emptied its entire contents into the atmosphere, we couldn't but help get wind of it here. The sheer pandemonium that rose was indeed magnificent.
Friends couldn't catch flights, holidays were cancelled, or extended when others couldn't return (not just a bad prospect), the micro and macro levels of the repercussions seemed boundless.
My sister in Dubai, emailed me to tell me that the meat was out of stock in the supermarkets, signs up on he boards 'Volcano in Iceland disrupted deliveries'. No red meat for them for a while. Even London was not untouched, aside Heathrow chaos (which lets face it is not uncommon), hospitals were feeling the brunt of the after effects. Shabs (my dearest friend) reported that in her hospital they cancelled theatre lists because deliveries of blood were not made and there was a hint of some medication shortage too!!
So while things were looking bleak and depleted in the World, we in Mseleni, well we had a lack of decent meat, no fish, no ice-cream, no shops and our pharmacy department which rarely has anything more than Panado (paracetamol trade name here in case you were struggling), ran out of Panado!!
But this, my readers, is quite independent of any volcano, I am afraid this is a rather chronic state.
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i,m an addicted follower!!!! - keep posting Adventure Superhero Afsana xx
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