Revolutionary Rants

I have been very quiet for a few days - sorry! Don’t suppose anyone much is bothered, but, hey…

This is mainly because Chicken and I spent Monday to Saturday up at the caravan near Mortehoe. We had a great time, swimming (usually in the site pool, but once in the sea) and walking everyday. We also had a nice lunch at a local pub - including pints of Carlsborg Export, which was very pleasant!

This week, we have my eldest brother and his family staying, so we are all busy playing ‘Star Wars’, shops, colouring and all manner of fun things!

Expect more posting again next week. Maybe…

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Yesterday Chicken and I, along with my parents and youngest brother, headed off to our caravan. Chicken had only been once, very briefly, and was pretty impressed (as he would say!) with the surroundings and the caravan itself.

Four of us put up the awning - which was amazingly easy and argument-free! - and then we walked down to Bull Point and over the coastal hills to a small enclosed beach near Morte Point. Mr C and I swam (the first time I have been in the sea for more than a paddle in years), amongst a great many dead jellyfish, in the beautiful bit of coldish sea.

Afterwards we returned to the site for our first barbecue on our new set! Chicken took over a prepared a delicious meal!!!

Today we are off to a party, so, like the title says, the living is easy!

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One of the all-time great Gooners left us last night: Patrick Veira.

I must admit I was calling him black and blue last night - thinking he had gone for the money, which my nephew misunderstood for he was missing his Mummy - but I have found out today that Wenger decided to sell him! Usually I believe in Mr Wenger’s judgement implicitly - he has, after all, won us more trophies than you can shake a stick at - but this time I am hoping he has made a wise one…

Either way, we will miss you Patrick!
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There was a young man on BBC New 24 this morning who made a very, very interesting point. Although he completely condemned violence - such as last Thursday’s bombings in London - he also said the war in Iraq made young Muslims angry because thousands were killed there and only the British and American deaths got much coverage, whilst (however awful their deaths remain, and however terrible for their families) the deaths of some 60 people in Britain is top news for days and days. It is a strange double standard…

A case in point last night was the extensive coverage of the bombers - including a low, low piece of journalism on ITV which revealed the chip shop owned by one bombers family - and about third from top headline was a brief examination of a bombing in Iraq killing some 26 people (who were mostly children) which featured harrowing photos of grieving parents discovering bodies.
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It has been very hot here in Devon. Yesterday, Chicken, Alex and I headed out to the North coast, and enjoyed a nice drive and then picnic on the moor above Lynton. We also popped in to Lynmouth for a brief walk around. It was Bedlam there! I thought it would be cooler today, but no such luck, the sun has returned full force - although with a slight breeze, which is better than yesterday’s absolute stillness - and is now accompanied by the ringing of the church bells in the village. I agree with Marx on religion, but I am a sucker for the church bells!!!

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Those who know me well will know I very, very, very rarely agree or even get close to agreeing with a Tory, but today I do. Bob Neill, leader of the Conservatives in London, said that the tactic used today by the BNP of having photos of the recent bus bombing in Tavistock Square on a election campaign leaflet.

Only the BNP would stoop that low… Only the odious Nick Griffin could say something like “It is the Labour Party that has lost control of our borders, so there is a huge sea of potential terrorists out there and the police can’t see who is doing it”, only he who could, at a time when families - white, black, Asian, Christian, Muslim, Jewish - are mourning their dead that “it is obviously a very graphic, horrific image which really sums up the cost of voting Labour. Obviously Islamic terrorists carried out the attacks, but it is the Labour Party’s fault they did it.”

Well, as San|ty feared, political terrorist have jumped on the bandwagon…

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Well, it is a sunny, hot day here in Devon. Chicken and I are off for a cycle on the Tarka Trail, near Barnstaple. It is perhaps a bit warm for cycling, but we have been planning on going since last Thursday, so we shall go whatever!!!

Tomorrow we may go swimming, but we are not certain yet. Either way we are enjoying our time before returning to University!

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It has been an awful day for London and Londoners today. It feels emotionally very close, and yet still unbelievable at the same time. I keep thinking about all the times we went through Edgware Road in the last year or two, how only a week or two ago we were enjoying a pint in Liverpool Street Station. All those people trapped in the tube… argh. All of them just ‘ordinary’ folk going to work or enjoying a few days in the capital.

Condolences to all those who have lost people.

Let us hope the aftermath of this will not be as scary for the world as September 11th.

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I feel in the need to do something random. So why not a lovely random top 10. I spent much of my teenage years making up top 10s with which to correspond with my many pen pals. We made lists out of everything, but tonight, to get the ball rolling, I will start with an easy one - and please feel free to comment with your own top 10s or suggestions!

My god, I am 22 and I am trying to grapple back my youth… Already?

OK, Top 10 time:
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I must admit, I didn’t actually watch Live 8. Yes, I sat, as a child of two, all day watching Live Aid (I had the mumps and saw the whole thing from my Dad’s knee!), yes, I to have the ‘Make Poverty History’ banner up: but Live 8 just seemed so ineffectual. OK, so the idea behind it was very important, and getting world-wide constant coverage for the ‘plight of Africa’ (as it is always called) is ‘worthy’ (well, what other word can you use?!); but, then, what difference will it make?

What Live 8 fails to take in to account is, even if the West cancels the debt - which, although it would be a good start, it will never be an end - capitalism will still need a weak area in order than the West can be the most powerful. By its very nature, capitalism needs poverty.
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