Today I met another group of people facing ruin from F&M - I visited a small circus.

Imagine a couple of families moving around with a worn-out tent and whimsy wagons, who allready have difficulties in earning their daily bread, not to speak of proper dental treatment or even new (and much-needed) equipment. An essencial part of their show are the animals - not some fattening livestock, which you can replace with new flock when the money from EU is coming in, but skilled arena animals, who have gained intensive training since they were little puppies. And allthough these animals will never be et so can without problems be vaccinated, for sure there is no money for this - the tent also needs mending to make sure the audience will not be soaked with rain, and even this couldn't be paid.

And they live by traveling from town to town, from country to country.

now THIS is what I call a catastropy.