Normal life

The busy Christmas and New Year periods have finally ended - the Coptic Christmas was 7th January with epiphany ending 12 days later. We then had the new constitution referendum which lasted 2 days. There were the usual protests and disruption that are becoming the norm and which we were able to follow on the TV and internet It was interesting to follow how the referendum was being reported locally and how it was then copied by the BBC: 'Voting has resumed in Egypt in a two-day referendum on a new constitution... With security tight Tuesday's voting was reported to be broadly peaceful. However, nine people died in clashes.' The BBC later removed the phrase 'broadly peaceful'. Unfortunately the 'peaceful' Tuesday was then followed with 5 times as many deaths on the second day of the referendum.
When circumstances dictate we continue to amuse ourselves with a jigsaw puzzle and a BBC podcast, the sizes seem to be increasing with the size of the protests. We recently finished a 1,000 piece puzzle and we've just started a 3,000 piece puzzle, let's hope the next one will only have 500 pieces.