Lazy Bones, Lazin' in the Sun........
Well I'm back an' I'm chiiillllled! Two idyllic weeks of doing sod all. Much appreciated and much needed. No TV, Internet or owt like that. Just the Daily Mirror to keep us in touch with all the important stuff like BB6, Shag Island (or whatever it was called), David's Speedos and the never-ending speculation about Shaun Wright-Phillips' future. The ridiculous posturings of The Daily Mail (Arf) kept us up to date with just how many illegal immigrants had committed acts of grave consequence and just how the Labour Government had destroyed a viable company called Railtrack.*Sits dumstruck attempting to remember at which point that most shambolic of shambolic Public Service sell offs could ever be remotely thought of as "viable"*
A superb resort - small, picturesque and quiet. Good company, good books, cheap booze, cheap food and an iPod full to the brim kept me satisfied for 14 nights. All I need is the air that I breathe..............
The night before we flew I perused iTunes and purchased Ry Cooder's newbie "Chavez Ravine". Well I love it. It's not the masterpiece that a lot of the Sundays have been damning it as, but it's near as damn it for me. Essentially it became the soundtrack to my holiday and it will forever be linked to the gorgeous village of Kassiopi, the sunshine, the people....ahhhhhh...the place.
And then right in the middle of this Nirvana comes the news that Michael Jackson has got off scot free. I'll not say anything explicit here 'cos I believe he's a litigious little bugger *ahem*. I'll just say this: For someone who constantly expresses his innocent love for children, it amazes me that nobody ever seems to comment on the fact that all his pre-pubescent pals are boys.
I'm with Jo Brand on this one - "he would've been convicted if he was black."
Why are we "celebrating" the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar four months before the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar? More to the point - why are we "celebrating" it at all? At great expense I might add. WTF has it to do with modern Britain?
You can't move in our street for gaily dressed, cheery children, mums and dads dancing hornpipes. The lovingly crafted, papier-mâché Frenchmen have been battered and burnt in an explosion of good-natured xenophobia the likes of which hasn't been witnessed since the halcyon days of the Empire.
Just like the Tories before him, it seems to me that our Tone is trying to rekindle the "glories" of the past in order to draw attention from the abject state of the policies of the "People's Party".
Do you think we'll be celebrating the 200th anniversary of victory in Iraq in 200, 250, 300 or perhaps 400 years time?
Furthermore, listening and watching the BBC, you would think that the entire country has been agog at the shenanigans occurring in the Solent, but the sad fact remains that, once again, it appears to be a competely sudo-centric enterprise. Surprising eh?
And finally. Wimbledon. FFS! Just when it's lookin' like the perennial failure Henman has finally been recognised fr the nearly-man he always was, we now have a NKOTB. The press are falling over themselves to make him out an ordinary kid (probably because he's Scottish and, therefore, can't be upper-class) who listens to his iPod, eats dodgy curries and sleeps in on the morning of matches.
He's not an ordinary kid. For a start off he's lived - alone - in Barcelona during his formative years so that could play tennis competitively.
He's not an ordinary kid. His mother is a highly competitive ex-tennis-player and number one in Scotland who has obviously influenced her son to the extent that the pressure of the modern circuit has driven her so far apart from young Andrew's Dad that they have seperated.
He's not an ordinary kid.
He plays tennis.
Full stop.
Right, the two-hour lag between the UK and Corfu is still taking me by surprise so time for bed.
Incidentally, I didn't get my redundancy - my "skills and experience are too valuable to to the company and the client".
3 comments:
Welcome back. I can see the holiday has recharged your batteries somewhat! So agree on that Trafalgar mallarkey and on Scottish Tennis players!
"Why are we "celebrating" the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar four months before the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar? "
We're just doing the events that need nice weather now. There are more events around the time.
"More to the point - why are we "celebrating" it at all? At great expense I might add. WTF has it to do with modern Britain?"
Personally I'm all for it, but then I have an interest in naval warfare of that period, and feel that events like this open it up to a wider audience. So it's just personal bias. The Staines Warganers will be doing their own re-enactment of Trafalgar come October, of course. And there will be no Red Fleet/Blue Fleet in our game.
Not sure whether to congratulate you or commiserate on the job front.
Trafalgar - why? Complete waste.
Tennis - who cares? Toff's sport.
Greece - ya lucky bugger.
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