Friday afternoon ...

.. Day 5 if you like of "leave de jardin" !! Some see it as an interesting - time off work, time to "relax, recharge etc"...I'm now starting to hate it .....

Fine early doors .. the magic "list of jobs to do" ... now done. Always pots to wash and clothes to wash - but they're there anyway - and they always get done ... so to do same as part of "keep you moving/alive" syndrome during the day soon starts to pale .... thank Frith I've not yet got to the "Jeremy Kyle" end of things !!

Watched "Question Time" last night - OK so Nick Griffin is now "outed" on mainstream telly as 'not very good' - but - as a Socialist meself - watching Jack Straw - pathetic .. I remember him once as a "proper Socialist" - obviously now he's part of this "Tory Labour Party" that runs the country - Baroness Warsi (so young for a Baronessty !) gave us nothing new - Chris Huhne (Lib) was given almost as little chance as Griffin to air the LibDem side of things (now there's a surprise .. all this country ever wants to do is to veer betwixt Labour and Conservative - and these days there's really no bloody difference .. is there ????)

No, the star of last night's show was Bonnie Greer .. now I DO have my views on people from "across the pond" - but here was someone who cut through the crap, got to the point and made her views perfectly clear ... and in a nicely informal/friendly way ... unlike that juddery, shaky Straw-type person or the "pseudo-pompous" Warsi person or the "give me a chance please" Huhne person. In many ways I have to agree with some points made .. it was a different format last night with a latent (?) "anti-BNP" bent throughout - even the one non-political question (Steven Gateley) was just a "tickle" to check out the BNP views on gays - Griffin even ballsed that one up as well ("creepy", "no sex education for primaries" etc ). But .. what do you expect - it would have been interesting to have had a UKIP "loon" on as well - to check out some "synchronised head nodding/shaking"...

Your past always catches up with you ... and not just Mr Griffin in this case but Jack Straw as well (now a pathetic excuse for Socialism) - yes he's part of the Government that's allowing "misdemeanours from years ago" to be regurgitated when people apply for jobs - whatever happened to the "Rehabilitation of Offenders Act" ?? Does this mean that when I finally "get off my *rse" to look for work, my "Theft of a Beer Glass" conviction (York (1981 I think) - on a college pub crawl - took half-full glass out of pub to leave it at next one - cost me a night in the cells !) will count against me - obviously because I wasn't at "Oxbridge", it won't count as "high sprits" - Sheffield Poly .... naaaah !!!

Anyway enough of this ... football - tomorrow - Leigh Genesis v Mossley - looking forward to seeing this whole "Leigh Sports Village" setup - believe there are more officials/stewards in the place than there are Leigh fans !! So to be on the safe side I'd better send an e-mail ref 'snapping' - I've even got my own hi-vis if necessary - I used to have an Ikea one (courtesy our Michelle from her time there), but now I have one with a Simon Carves logo on ... and the words "made me redundant" inked on underneath - rebel !!!).

And then ... Sunday morning @ 0600 ... flying to Kefalonia for a week ... break out the Mythos !!
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