That's frightening - like so many Hiroshimas.

I've found that every tiem I see a shot of a beach or the seaside now, the images of the tidal wave and its devastation vecomes inescapable. The same way I can't see a low flying big aeroplane without thinking of September 11th, especially if it passes begind a building.

Such images have lost their innocence, for a generation.

We got a brochure through the post with all these adverts for holidays in Sri Lanka and Thailand, all put together just a few weeks ago...