The plan last night had been to stay up and watch the Chilean miners being rescued from their underground hell of the last 68 days - especially when BBC News cut to a Special on BBC1 (it's always very exciting when they do this; though recent times have been less than entirely spectacular what with David Cameron taking office and the death of Michael Jackson). However, rolling news fiends like myself were disappointed when Chilean officials revealed that the rescue attempt wouldn't begin until way after midnight UK time, and that we probably wouldn't see the first man out of the hole until 3am or so. Disappointed, K and I gave up and went to bed.
This morning, though, we have the pleasantly unusual experience of waking up and flicking the digital radio by my side of the bed onto Radio 5Live (as is our AM custom) to an overwhelming swell of good news as the miners emerge, one per hour - wearing specially-provdided $400 Oakley shades no less. I bet they didn't think they'd come out wearing those when they went to work back in August. Nor would they be fighting over a signed David Villa Barcelona shirt, for that matter. More of them emerge throughout the day and there is definitely a strange positive vibe about the place. The bad news will be back on the agenda tomorrow, no doubt - but today is one of those weird, globe-uniting news days when we can happily marvel at the ingenuity of human beings when a crisis is at hand. Now we just have to wait for the inevitable Apollo 13-style film. My early money is on Gael Garcia Bernal being in there somewhere.
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