Nice Place we've Got Here
Do you like what we've done with the place?
The burning buses and cars? The recreational rioting?
Belfast over the last few days hasn't been very nice. We are save and far enough away from the trouble to not worry about us, but it means that you get calls in work, saying that trouble is starting, and you'd best leave early to make sure you get home, and you end up not able to go out in the evenings. Which is a bit crap.
But this blog is about parenting and Emily - what's this got to do with it? Well, it makes you think the old "is this where I want to bring up my child?" question. I grew up through it, and it hasn't made me a terrible person, but once you've lived away for a few years, you get used to not having to worry about stuff like that, and you become all the more resentful of becoming almost a prisoner in your own home until it finishes. I don't know if I would want Emily to "get used to it".
We're used to it in July, but that doesn't make it OK. And now it's September and it's happening. It makes you wonder how often you should tolerate it before you change something.
But the trouble is that it's a beautiful country to live in when this rubbish isn't happening....
I hear Canada is a nice place.... ;)
Scotland's lovely! come and live here (although someone we know did get shot last week, it was however completely unintentional - they were mistaken for a grouse!?!)
love from Sal in Douglaston where no one marches anywhere, more of a gentle ramble around when they can be arsed.
Well
There's certainly no place like Bilston - and we've got plenty of room for all of you. Woz can even fit the garage out for his Mac (coz we wouldn't want it in the house - he he)
Love mom
That's right, Canada's lovely, a little on the uneventful side, but we do have a great film festival going on in Toronto now. A country policed by mounties, what more could you want?
Uneventful? Sounds good to me!! :D
If I might add the pleasures of Hertfordshire into the mix? One phrase - Just over an hour to Upton Park.
When are you moving then?
It sounds like troubling times for sure.
We have been away for a week and it was pretty shocking to come back to the images in the papers. I would have mailed sooner about it but I remember after Uni whenever there was the slightest bit of trouble I would ask if it was all ok over there? Your reply would always be yeah, it's all fine, it was in a different part of town it or didn't really affect you or Max.
Sad to hear that it is now, considering how far things have come and how much stuff has changed.
I'm hoping that it is just a desperate attempt by a few to try and hold on to an outdated image of their society that the majority are working hard to change.
Be safe!
Stevenage? Isn't that a bit.... chav-y? :P
Belfast? Isn't that a bit sectarian-y? Cheeky git.
Anyway, not the bit I live in. That being said, I suggested Hertfordshire, not Stevenage - we'll move in a couple of years, as the secondary schools aren't much cop.
What do you mean, secondary schools? You're gonna need to move before that, to get more room for number two! :D