Success and Paris - a powerful paradox
13 January 2008 @ 13:18
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It is an interesting paradox, though, about people who can afford such meat (like us, we can fork out the extra £2.50-£3.00 for a free-range hen and afford, also, to go to the local market for our meat) and those who feel tempted by the cheapo stuff because their budgets are tight. Are all radical political (or otherwise) movements doomed to be lead by the middle-classes because they - like Lenin - can afford to sit around, think and plan revolutions? Are the so-called ‘working classes’ (I am not sure they exist as such anymore, but that’s another post in itself) to busy existing to give a f**k? Is this the greatest capitalistic fail-safe ever created?? I think I will return to this on my new column, which I am starting in a week or two, and more of which later… Not much going on here at the moment. Off to London for my birthday next weekend, to see King Tut and the terracotta warriors, which is exciting. It being that time of year, our thoughts have turned to holidays and we have booked our annual trip to Paris. We also plan another trip to North Yorkshire to see Chicken’s Aunt, Castle Howard and return to Whitby. We are hoping to get in another “city break” maybe to Italy, Amsterdam or Barcelona (where I can walk la Rumblas but without real intent) and a visit to nearby Cornwall, where Mr C has yet to go. It is windy here but not as rainy as we expected it to be. Yesterday - after I got back from work - we went for a nice walk, borrowing my brother’s dog, up local Dennington hill. Alex is heading off to Bristol tomorrow and we plan to be mostly lazy today. |
