Drowning Man

These are watery times, and so it must be the rain that has broken what seems to have been many weeks of dry weather but was probably nothing of the sort, just perhaps a fortnight at best, or perhaps it's the finally reopened Puerto Pollensa pool and the open doors policy at the weekend which meant you could go for free, but you wondered should it not have been an open waters policy instead or is it the case that their waters had broken or something like that or nothing, or was it all down to FUSOSA and their regular cuts to supply, and do you want to know something, the bloke actually rang back to ask if the supply had been restored, which was good of him, in fact it is unheard of, except you have now heard it, or then could it be the new desalination plant for drinking water that will serve Alcúdia and Pollensa from the coming summer and mean that supplies in certain parts, Cala San Vicente for instance, will have better quality than the cloudy, puffy stuff they've had to contend with till now, and I remember those little fluffy clouds, and also mean fewer nitrates and that "inhabitants wlll be able to drink tap water", in the words of Alcúdia's mayor Miquel Ferrer, albeit that he didn't speak them in English of course, and should also mean that those responsible for getting Alcúdia and Pollensa's water sorted out have a word with the people at the plant in Can Picafort that supplies that town and Playa de Muro where there are too many nitrates, or there again perhaps it's the news that all the marinas on the island are expected to be full to overflowing this summer, if - that is - boats and yachts can ever be said to overflow, which you would rather hope that they wouldn't I guess but would more likely be said to be buoyant in the water and in their number and in therefore the market for nautical tourism and raise again the question as to whether there should be more moorings and how much they should cost and what the effects might be on the environment, marine in particular, and also on the whole social dynamic of tourism in that an affluent, water-based elite assumes supremacy over the all-inclusive economy-class who might stretch as far as a pedalo but no more, and brings into sharp relief this notion of water-sports centres, the Estaciones Náuticas, that will be Alcúdia and could be Pollensa and whether they create second-class zones around, for example, The Mile, while the port and the marina is reserved for what some love to call "quality tourism" and yet is an affront to many, or perhaps it's all just a case of drowning under the weight of too many words in too long a sentence that has all to do with water because these, as I say, are watery times, and so it must be the rain, and those little fluffy clouds, or is it that everything comes in, flows in, lungs imploding, just like one long, unbroken, never-ending sentence, like a drowning man gulping for air, gulping for help in these watery times, which is how it feels, perhaps for you as well, and so it must be the rain that has broken what seems to have been many weeks of dry weather ...


QUIZ
Yesterday's title - Duran Duran. From the same album, "Ordinary World" was better, so here it is, in fact it was bloody great (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaTL6VAr2RY). Today's title - it's them yet again, but this comes from a long time ago when it was decreed that all Irish bands had to feature a violin.


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