I Have never known it so windy. All the heavy pots on the cottage wall have gone for a burton, a
nd the dogs big walk this time in Bishop's wood had to be cut short as I had trouble physically standing! Effectively I feel under siege! I have never before felt nervous of the strength of the wind but I do today and keep checking if the slates have been ripped from the roof! Some consolation is the fact that the cottage has been here for three hundred years or so; Chris is marooned in Widnes or some godforsaken backwater and is trying to get to Chester so I can pick him up later, all the trains (as per usual when weather strikes in this country) have stopped !
Several trees in the churchyard have been damaged, and least of our problems the satellite dish has stopped working! Hey at least my custard tart has come ou
t ok, so thank God for small mercies. Carole from next door popped round for a coffee and to say hi to the dogs, all of whoom she loves!! (below) but just missed out on the "tart"!
Celebrity Big Brother seems to be going from bad to worse with this racist element being flagged up! The sponsors (carphone warehouse) have now pulled their financial support in light of the Jade Goody/Danielle Lloyd alleged bullying against Shilpa Shetty , and the row has bounced worldwide. This is the end of Big Brother I feel, and not a moment too soon. Originally it was an interesting psychological experiment of sorts, but it has been manipulated to death and now resembles a score of Christians being hurled to the lions!
Goody and her family, I am afraid, seem to be representative of much of the UK population, in the fact they are ignorant and insular and do not have the ability to reflect. They just exist and are what they seem to be! Of course the stress put upon them in this awful atypical environment of the Big Brother house, would make a nun spit, and has fuelled this fishwife behaviour, but Jade and her brood are racist, just as they are narrow minded,crass,ignorant and rude. I see this racism a great deal, and certainly notice it more in Wales than I ever did in Sheffield. It is a product of living lives isolated from diversity and exposure to differences in all manner of things, not just of other cultures and race. The whole sorry mess saddens me greatly.
On a positive note Shilpa Shetty has actually come across as a well adjusted, confident, and self aware individual whereas Goody and Lloyd resemble brittle teenagers who are out of their depth in this unreal situation! Perhaps all this also reflects very badly upon the producers and psychologists of this programme who manipulated these damaged people in the first place.
nd the dogs big walk this time in Bishop's wood had to be cut short as I had trouble physically standing! Effectively I feel under siege! I have never before felt nervous of the strength of the wind but I do today and keep checking if the slates have been ripped from the roof! Some consolation is the fact that the cottage has been here for three hundred years or so; Chris is marooned in Widnes or some godforsaken backwater and is trying to get to Chester so I can pick him up later, all the trains (as per usual when weather strikes in this country) have stopped !Several trees in the churchyard have been damaged, and least of our problems the satellite dish has stopped working! Hey at least my custard tart has come ou
t ok, so thank God for small mercies. Carole from next door popped round for a coffee and to say hi to the dogs, all of whoom she loves!! (below) but just missed out on the "tart"!Celebrity Big Brother seems to be going from bad to worse with this racist element being flagged up! The sponsors (carphone warehouse) have now pulled their financial support in light of the Jade Goody/Danielle Lloyd alleged bullying against Shilpa Shetty , and the row has bounced worldwide. This is the end of Big Brother I feel, and not a moment too soon. Originally it was an interesting psychological experiment of sorts, but it has been manipulated to death and now resembles a score of Christians being hurled to the lions!
Goody and her family, I am afraid, seem to be representative of much of the UK population, in the fact they are ignorant and insular and do not have the ability to reflect. They just exist and are what they seem to be! Of course the stress put upon them in this awful atypical environment of the Big Brother house, would make a nun spit, and has fuelled this fishwife behaviour, but Jade and her brood are racist, just as they are narrow minded,crass,ignorant and rude. I see this racism a great deal, and certainly notice it more in Wales than I ever did in Sheffield. It is a product of living lives isolated from diversity and exposure to differences in all manner of things, not just of other cultures and race. The whole sorry mess saddens me greatly.
On a positive note Shilpa Shetty has actually come across as a well adjusted, confident, and self aware individual whereas Goody and Lloyd resemble brittle teenagers who are out of their depth in this unreal situation! Perhaps all this also reflects very badly upon the producers and psychologists of this programme who manipulated these damaged people in the first place.
Chris has just rung,Britain in a weather crisis! , motorways closed and train services all stopped so he has decided to bum a bed off his professor! in scenic Preston.
