This week I’ve found a quote from the late British novelist Sir Terry Pratchett:
‘It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.’
It’s the old ‘rules are made to be broken’ thing, which of course causes much excitement when you’re in the middle of breaking one of them. In these days of ‘Elf & Safety’ though, the list of rules forbidding you doing anything are becoming longer and longer and harder to ignore.
However, have you ever experienced the thrill of breaking a known rule? I must admit I can remember one or two episodes as an adventurous 12 year old involving Woolworth’s Pick ‘n Mix display and an apple tree in a farmer’s field, but hey…
Sam deliberately goes out of his way to ignore rules when he thinks they smack too much of the nanny state, but then he always was a bit of a rebel. Me, I don’t even eat Pick ‘n Mix sweets these days…
Stevie Turner 
I am assuming you wrote this before the events of Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. It seems likely that irksome regulations, if in place and if followed, could have prevented this disaster.
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Maybe if the landlord had listened to the tenants’ complaints about the block of flats being a death trap instead of wanting to cut costs then who knows? I didn’t have that particular disaster in mind when I wrote this blog. Sometimes there are too many unnecessary rules and regulations, and sometimes in this case, not enough.
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