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Sunday, 24 July 2005
in the most delightful way...
The weekend has, as always, disappeared far too quickly. Fortunately, though, it was spent with Beth and the children. Yesterday we went to the lovely talented Tamara's barbecue where we met up with some old pals, and today we generally hung around the house, keeping out of the rain and watching Mary Poppins on video.
Oh, and my phone is no longer broken (hooray!) - Nokia phones have repair centres dotted around the place, and I took my sickly 5140 to the MPC in Stevenage, where the affable chap told me that it had all gone a bit wrong, and needed a full software re-install. Half an hour later, it was like new again, and I was most relieved and pleased, except that it had (as I'd expected) lost the REM concert photos.
I finally watched the first episode of Extras this evening. It's amusing, but still hard-going to watch; I'll admit that the Maggie Jacobs character was wonderful (some of her expressions were gorgeous) but otherwise it had that kind of 'cringeworthy' quality that was only to be expected from Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant. Maybe it'll be a 'grower'...
Back to work tomorrow; who knows what this week will hold? I'm hoping and praying for no more London unpleasantness - it's all getting a bit much. I'm on 'nights' at the end of the week, so I'm gearing myself up for being quite addled (not like I'm any different normally!)
Links of the day:
- www.londoning.com/notAfraid.htm : A delightful song, inspired by the We're Not Afraid site.
Posted by james at July 24, 2005 10:30 PM
Comments
i will (in a break with tradition) be slightly serious and somewhat controversial here. in no way do i condone the events of recent weeks in london & elswhere around the world (& i freely admit this is a view of someone untainted by all this) but things like 'we're not afraid' is another degree of triteness which again misses the point and questions exactly what we've learnt from history.
20 odd years ago the ira were continuously blowing up bits of london and despite this "we shall not be intimidated/give in" attitude achieved nothing. Eventually it only stopped because we _had_ to address the issue and actually talk to these people, difficult though that is. and until we as a people accept that we are not exactly guilt free in these matters and try to at least understand what would drive someone to believe in something so strongly enough to blow themselves up over it, nothing will change. j.
Posted by: jon at July 26, 2005 10:15 PM
