Day Twenty Four - Home again home again...

[byslantedlight]

Well, today I was quite happy to be home (always nice after you've been away for a bit), and quite happy to Get Things Done (even though not enough of them, and not fast enough), and very happy that it didn't actually rain until the evening, even though the forecast said it would, but the thing I was happiest about, was starting to read this... I know, I need to stop going on about it - and actually I need to post about the books I've read before this, but there's barely been time to blink at lj, what with work and work and arranging more work. Whose bright idea was this self-employed thing, anyway?

But... Fairs' Point, and Rathe and Eslingen - even in the face of UKIP (and more particularly what the UKIP victories suggest about people - cos let's face it, it was people what voted. I'd better renew my passport and get my new certificate of abode sorted before it's too late, eh - or else start thinking more seriously about New Zealand... stoopid people. Where's an Adjunct Point and an ex-mercenary of Coindarel's Guard when you need them?) Oh, but Fairs' Point! I couldn't even wait to re-read the other books, which I'd really, really meant to... *sighs happily*

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[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Running way behind myself, but I did just have to say - thank you for all your wonderful photos and travel writing mini-epic! You always make me feel there's so much more to discover than I've ever imagined ...

And yes, that UKIP result is some seriously depressing shit. My only hope is that it's a mid-term protest vote on the part of disaffected Tories for the most part - but the sad truth is that there are far, far too many people falling for this thinly disguised "respectable" face of racism, and who either like or don't care about the brutal economic policies (decimate the NHS? check. Flat tax rate crushing the poorest while the richest don't even notice it? check ... ugh).

I'd rather read some lush tales, too!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee - there is so much more to discover than I've ever imagined - things keep turning up! *g*

I wish I could think it was a protest vote, but I keep remembering the faces on the audience of X-Factor (or whatever it was) when Susan Boyle came out to sing. That's people for you - they think that's okay... Too many people out there who don't seem to have ever known what it was to think about other people... *sighs* As you say - ugh.

Erk - quick, good-things, good-things! We need good things... or else action, obviously...

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Agree about the happiness of Fairs Point arriving!

Agree, too, about the election results. But where would your new abode be? A lot of Europe is going righter than right wing in the face of recession, and Australia, according to friends who live there, is just as bad. New Zealand might be the only possibility!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, and now I've finished Fairs Point and seem to have started it again... *happy sigh*

Ha - can't think of anywhere other than NZ as a new abode. Australia is at least as bad, the US never an option... suppose I've not looked too hard at Canada recently, and they do have an arctic I guess... *g* But I shall cross-fingers that they just renew my certificate of abode as they have every other time so far...

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Glad you're home safe. I enjoyed your hols, thank you *g* And ack, don't leave! We need non-stoopid people to stay and take a stand... somehow or other *sighs*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

We do need to take a stand somehow, don't we... but that stand seems to involve trying to let people know it's not okay to be complete and utter shits to each other, so... I'm open to ideas! If I leave though, it won't be by choice, it'll be because they won't renew my certificate of abode... (no reason they shouldn't!).

[murphybabe]

Glad you're back home safe and sound after such a nice holiday. It is good to be back in your own home, isn't it?

Fair's Point was fab! I gobbled it down in one greedy bite! But I did have time to re-read the others first. I hope you enjoy it too :)

And UKIP, sigh. I don't normally post anything about my politics or comment on anyone else's, but this situation is depressing me.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You know, maybe part of the problem is that people don't post or comment about politics or the like out loud - if people don't talk about things, then its easier for them to happen, because the impression is that everyone's okay with it. Of course it does seem that people are okay with being unkind to each other, so... *sighs*

I finished Fair's Point this morning, and seem to have started re-reading it again. Yeay! *g*

[alicambs.livejournal.com]

Nods seriously, NZ doesn't have UKIP. ;-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say "does anywhere else have UKIP", but frighteningly enough I rather think they do... and even more frighteningly, enough people who support UKIP and the like... People scare me, sometimes. If they don't renew my certificate, it'll be NZ I head for - be warned! *g*