Saturday, 10 November 2012

It felt like Autumn ambushed me...

One minute all October sunshine and cloudless skies, next minute winter dimness on my work commute.

I'm the only one still wearing shorts on the school pick-up though. The ladies and gents of Molesey regard me with curious eyes as I march up to get X at home time.. the cold is a state of mind I guess! 

Most of my activities have been indoors of late. Our visit to the local fireworks display was a great success though. I dreaded little D freaking out at the bangs and the whistles like all the toddlers around us, but she did me proud. Whilst X oohed and aahed in all the right places, she just looked a bit bored!  

Did you catch any of the US Elections at all? I followed them with some interest (the lesser of two evils won in my mind, thankfully). It made me wonder - how could anyone really vote for Romney, a man who looks like he lights his cigars with one hundred dollar bills? The only non-white people he meets are probably the ones who clean his pool! He just reminded me of a younger, more photogenic version of these two: 
Obama is marginally better in my mind. At least he doesn't (blatantly) send US troops abroad to protect the financial needs of his backers. You'd imagine that Romney would have a long list of 'well wishers' demanding some action to make them a few bucks if he got the job.. like invading Iran perhaps? Instead we have Mr O for another term, caning the credit card to pay the bills for a little longer until he has no other choice. I watched his acceptance speech with a sort of flat bemusement. He trotted out all the patriotic platitudes you would expect and the crowd whooped and hollered their joy (or was it relief?). I reckon the people from Schmoyoho said it best.

A.

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