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Stuf that I can’t fit anywhere else…

Looking back and stuff

Today has not been the best day for me, I have feeling quite low and also suffering from some ongoing aches and pains related to a problem that started over a year ago. I have been thinking back over what I have done with most of my adult life and trying to reconcile the fact that I did miss the boat in many ways.

With Mrs T’s passing, its a bit like a sign post as many people seem to have very selective memory’s of that period, and its made me take a bit of wander down memory lane. The Brixton riots being a particularly vivid memory for me for example. Time seems to have flashed by, I seem to have been on this forum for ever too.

Some people gained and some lost a lot.
I suspect that there could well have been a better way to make change happen. To describe some sections of society as the enemy is hardly the way to have anything other than a divided Britain and the same style of rhetoric is in use today. So enough with the scapegoating its really not helpful.

Postcard from Battersea

Well here we are then, still in a complete state of confusion and waiting for some good news, but the weathers still shit, the governments shit and I am feeling a bit shit myself. OK the reasons for optimism to balance it, well I am still alive, actually that’s about it really. Everything is bad news and we are fed a constant diet of inaccurate and distorted news, and there even seems to be what can only be interpreted as government sponsored hate campaigns against those who are most vulnerable in our society. The more you inquire the worst it gets and yet more duplicity is revealed. OK tell me I am paranoid I dare you.

Yet here in Battersea I am surrounded by the most blatant conspicuous consumption, recently a new restaurant has announced its open and distributed its gilt edged menu through my front door (my hovel being cheek by jowl with some of the most expensive property in London) and the menu has no prices in it, Presumably if you have to ask….

Apart from that, well its business as usual.
Wrote a song a couple of days ago, which can be heard here >

http://www.reverbnation.com/dianastone/song/16675904-pretty-gilded-cage