I keep thinking of things to blog about, then thinking that ‘argh, no time to do this!’ so don’t.
So, giving myself ten minutes to whack this entry out, before bed, so apologies if it’s awful and reads terribly. No time to edit!
Did I mention I’m setting up a WI? I’ve been a member for a couple of years now, and decided I would love to set one up in Ealing – we do have one, but it’s a Wednesday afternoon type one, and not that practical for people who work! There’s three of us doing it – myself, a lady called Val, and Lorna – who, incidentally, bought me the cutest little acrylic rabbit badge the other day :D
Let me know if you’d like more details, it would be lovely to see some of you there!
I suppose a blog entry written this week can’t fail to mention the disturbances over the last week. I assumed – possibly naively – that in Ealing we’d be safe from any problems. I think that’s why watching News24 live, as buses and buildings were set on fire, and windows were smashed upset me so much. I’ll admit I was scared. I know realistically nothing was going to happen to us – we live away from the main town, and back from the main roads, but just the fact it was in Ealing made it all too close for comfort. I barely got any sleep on Monday night, and my main reaction on Tuesday morning, when I woke up and recalled the night before was one of fury. I was almost in tears with frustration, and anger, and I tweeted at the time that how fucking dare they to do this to my city? How dare they think it was okay to set fire to people’s homes, to throw bricks and missiles at the police – scrub that, at PEOPLE. I was a bit wary about the weekend, expecting it all to kick off again, but hopefully we’re past it now, and won’t have to watch our city burning on live news any more.