What price a return to normality?

But what is normality and is it achievable?

And anyhow, things are far from "normal" just now

Globally it would appear that a picture is worth a billion words. Poor bastards getting away from awful things going on in Syria/Libya. Seems a 50% chance of survival in a dinghy is a better bet than staying home and trying to defend their very lives. My hope is that the world will face up to this crisis, not least my government. I've usually looked at it with a view that if folk aren't getting along, they should sit down with each other and have a nice cup of tea and a chat, or maybe a game of cricket but for now a lot of people need a lot of refuge AND we can all help. The xenophobes and scare mongers that say three's no money here and that we're full need to have things better explained to them. Listening to my local radio these last few days has been awful. I've lost count of the times I've heard the phrase "I'm not racist but....." Apparently the island of Britain will sink if any more of "them" come here.

Who knows, maybe when these people are back on their feet and we are helping their homelands rebuild into my desire for things to be normal, maybe they'll go home, which is where I guess they'd all like to live happily ever after.