Woke to a wonderfully invigorating thunderstorm this morning, Taranis driving his chariot over our roof, brilliant lightning, and hail rattling the windows. Much needed here after over two weeks without rain - I just hope it's been in time to rescue my callicarpa!
And there was a Lutra-card in the post!
It's a Leafy Seadragon, one of the beauties at the Melbourne Aquarium... No good, have to go there... (yersss, thanks for the upside-down stamp, tenshi, very amusing!)
The next two AC chapters - Havoc and Retreat - are trundling along. I'm hoping to finish Havoc by tomorrow night, since it's actually holding up Lutra's near-as-dammit-finished next chapter. It's not proving particularly easy to write, unfortunately...
Beltaine Eve. We have our local elections tomorrow, and I don't know who (what, rather) to vote for...
<rant> It won't be the Tory candidate, I know that much. I watched that evil old hag Thatcher and that bastard Major (remember him? The one with the smug smirk that I always wanted to smash with a brick?) turn this country from a relatively comfortable, community-minded culture into a 'me first and only' society, their insanely inequitable policies leaving vast swathes of the population trying to exist in what was to all intents and purposes grinding poverty... My hatred of the Tories is profound, almost as deep as my loathing for the Bush administration.
So in the last few elections - both local and general - I've voted Labour. Not necessarily because I like their policies, but because I did not want to see the Tories cause any more devastation. Yeah, strategic (or should that read tactical?) voting, like an awful lot of others. Unfortunately, it rather looks as though Labour aren't to be trusted either. I don't mean their policies, the way they've been trying to run the country: they have, after all, twenty-odd years of Tory misrule to put right, and that can't be accomplished in a couple of years. But Blair doesn't listen. (Yes, I know, very few politicians do, once they're in power, do they?) Opposition to Britain's involvement in the war on Iraq was - shall we say substantial? - over here, partly because an awful lot of people do not trust Bush's motives. It was ignored. Opposition to allowing asylum seekers entry into the country was ignored (despite the fact that we don't have enough homes/jobs/money for working class native Brits) until very recently (at the moment I think we can discount the thirty or so sent back to Afghanistan as a publicity stunt aimed at proving that the government is listening to the people, since Labour's popularity has waned so dramatically in recent days). Opposition to adopting the euro as our currency seems to be ignored also, though I'm not up on recent events in that field so I could easily be wrong...
So, not the Tories (never the Tories), and dubious about Labour. Social Democrats? Haven't been very impressed with what I've seen/heard of them so far. I'd love to vote Green, but I have grave doubts about their effectiveness in the broader arena. I will vote, of course, a generation of women fought and suffered for me to have the right to do so, I can't let that sacrifice have been in vain.
eh, pity we don't live in Weston-super-Mare, I understand a Jedi Knight is standing for election there...</rant>
On a happier note, Sue spent some of Eostre down in Devon (my birthplace this time round) and visited Burgh Island and its hotel...
We both love the hotel - the inside is all genuine art deco, my favourite artistic style. It was up for sale at one point, and I promised myself if I ever won the lottery I'd buy it (Sue's said the same, so I guess whichever of us wins first gets first dibs!).
Not quite a tropical island, Lutra, but would it do for now?
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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