Now all we need is the Titanic

Bertie is proving recalcitrant in continuing his story of Jeeves playing poker, so just a little filler here.

Locals are very excited by a couple of icebergs drifting slowly northwards past Dunedin for the first time in seventy years. The international press are rather more restrained, but also more informative. Allegedly visible with the naked eye from land, and I thought I might have seen one on the way in to work this morning, but the cloud ceiling was pretty low and the light was not great. Will report back if conditions change. I guess that having grown up somewhere where most of the countryside was scenically equivalent to an iceberg for several months of the year, it's a bit tougher for me to summon up the excitement that the locals seem to be feeling.

Does anyone else remember the Bloom County series on the "massacre of the local news reporters"? Hope I haven't put myself in danger here.

Edit Bother, the ODT has some clever boots system that prevents direct links through to stories. Anyhow, the "local press" link above will now take you to their homepage, and it's pretty easy to find the story from there.