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They Shall Not Pass

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

There will be a blockade at our friendly neighbourhood Atomic Weapons Eastablishment on Monday 9th May and all I can think about is that I can’t go to jail because I have booked a ticket on the Wednesday ferry to Bilbao. I have to stop being so paranoid—I’m only going as a bystander for heaven’s sake. Mind last time I thought that, I ended up practising blockade techniques with the rest of the guys, so who knows.

Ah well, it is high time that I stood by my principles! Even if they start at 7 am (brrr).

Damn, this means I’ll have to fire off letters to the local papers again. Oh well, I just have to shuffle the words around a bit each time and if I keep doing it for long enough, a few of them may actually get published.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

Yesterday we went to see the long-awaited movie of ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, a film that took so long to get made that Douglas Adams once said it was like trying to cook a steak by having people file past and breathe onto it. It was good. The Guide itself had amazingly few bells & whistles but Slatibartfast’s part was breathtaking.

I read the HGG for the first time just before coming to England in 1987 and watching the film left me with a warm and fuzzy feeling about what a wonderful country this is (in summer at least). That was until we passed the first Tory placard on the way home. Lately, all the green fields around Tadley have sprouted blue signs. The election is the day after tomorrow and I am shitting it. The war will cost Labour dearly. Everyone realises that of course a Tory government would have gone to war—a great deal more eagerly at that. But the consensus on the left is that at least the Tories are honest bastards. I hope they do not forget, not for one moment, that their campaign is fought on intolerance.

While we’re on the subject of zoology: Don’t miss ‘Dr Tatiana’s Sex Guide to all Creation’ on Channel 4 tonight—highly recommended!

Spring BBQ

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

I’ve been twitchy since the first buds appeared on the trees, but yesterday it finally looked as if it wouldn’t rain all day, so we had a BBQ.

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