At the local swimming pool as I arrive in the car and pull up to let the girls out two boys knock on the door. They follow the car and when I get out expressionless they ask for fifty pence to go swimming. The Roma have been moving to this area for a few years …
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eyepatches and the devil
I took my daughter to school this morning and the class were cutting out a pirate hat. The teacher had used a shape that included an eye patch (the image shows a similar but more complex model). As the children were cutting, colouring and attaching the strip around the back to hold it onto their …
baking
Four lemon drizzle cakes for the allotment annual plant sale, well two for home and two for the sale.
hypocrisy
There I am writing about collaborating with the litterer. On the way back from school my daughter eats a tangerine. You’ve not dropped the peel? I ask. No I hear, it is in her pocket.
angel
Is this an evangelical graffiti artist? A lesbian angel? Parson Cross, Sheffield.
yoga is relaxing
300
Well what am I to make of the 300? Second time I’ve seen it and a very different watching in some ways and not in others. This time too I hear the entirely fictional and impossible speeches made by Spartans about saving ‘little Greece’, that home of ‘reason and justice’, setting out to defeat the …
me after my daughter has done with me
So far so good. We all watched some of Dogville this evening. We didn’t get all the way through. That was ok, because I was fearful of how the women present would react to the lead up to the denoumemt, the climax. Posted from WordPress for Android
meeting the people
In the atrium, OK, the arrival lounge, no, the lobby, I don’t know, that bit inside the supermarket but not inside the shopping area proper… is an information board which announces (top left) that you can meet our suppliers. I would guess that this is a typical display in such shops which tells people about …
Occupy, Punch and Judy
The occupation has been in front of the Cathedral for a couple of months now. I have several friends who have been supportive in one way or another and conversation has often been in favour of giving assistance to the movement. The model of general assemblies appeals to certain sensibilities as does the absence of …