Sightings and mis-sightings

It has been an interesting week in terms of natural phenomena. This Monday Altaa and I saw an urban fox deep in the bowels of town. Altaa saw him first on a deserted street, pausing as he caught sight of us, positioned twenty yards from us like it was a showdown of High Noon, with the parked cars on either side representing the wooden buildings in a dusty Western town. As we advanced he darted onto the pavement and we followed to that side of the road. In his mind, he made an unfortunate decision since he padded along the paving stones straight into the path we were going (which was our way home anyway). Abruptly, but elegantly, he made a u-turn and loped off at double the casual speed he had been moving at. I've seen urban foxes before, but rarely at such close range.
On the Tuesday, I saw a rainbow. Again, not much unusual in that, but I've never seen one on such a cold day which that morning was and so vibrant it was too. Ususally, it's too overcast for rainbows to appear when frosty autumnal days roll in.
However, the Indian navy made a mistake when the pirate mother-ship they thought they had sunk turned out to be a Thai fishing boat that had been commandeered by RPG-toting cut-throats. The pirates scarpered in speedboats when the warship turned the heat up, leaving their poor Thai prisoners to go down in the now-burning floating inferno. A tragic case, but casualties do happen in war and there are no doubts that the Indians, as the only significant naval presence off the Horn of Africa, need to be muscular in dealing with highway robbery of the high-seas.
On an aural note, something that David Pleat said of a Blackburn Rovers playing committing an offence that incurred a second yellow card and thus dismissal. "It's incompetent - and I mean that in the kindest possible way." What!?! How can calling someone useless ever be construed as kindness of any sort? It's another great football comment from ex-managers who are more used to bawling out dressing rooms than speaking coherently.