Wow, have been couped up at work all weekend, and hadn't realised THE SUMMERS BACK!!! :-D It's 30C again out in the garden, and is meant to stay warm all week- time to work on the tan me thinks!
ARRGGGHHHH!!!!
UF that boy! OK so now he calls and starts telling me he thinks he might be bi. I'm sure he must try and find himself issues to stress about! And apparently he slept over at some guy called Chris's house on Friday, but wouldn't tell me anything about it. Really don't know what that child is trying to achieve. Starting to think that maybe I should just cut all communication with him, it's the only way I'm going to be able to let go....
....Just hope it doesn't take me over a year like it did with Matt!
For those of you who aren't familiar with what I mean by 'British Spirit', here is something I picked up off of another blog today:
''Many years ago I was working in The City and there were two events that made travel into work almost impossible.
The first was a series of storms that brought down power lines, blocked train routes and so on. Not surprisingly, the place was empty the next day. Why bother to struggle through?
The other event was an IRA bomb which caused massive damage and loss of life. Trains were disrupted, travel to work the next day was horribly difficult and yet there were more people at work than on a normal day. There was no co-ordination to this, no instructions went out, but it appeared that people were crawling off their sick beds in order to be there at work the next day, thrusting their mewling and pewling infants into the arms of anyone at all so that they could be there.
Yes, we’ll take an excuse for a day off, throw a sickie. But you threaten us, try to kill us? Kill and injure some of us?
Fuck you, sunshine.
We’ll not be having that.
No grand demonstrations, few warlike chants, a desire for revenge, of course, but the reaction of the average man and woman in the street? Yes, you’ve tried it now bugger off. We’re not scared, no, you won’t change us. Even if we are scared, you can still bugger off.''
Message For The World!
''I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime Ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old. It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.
That isn’t an ideology, it isn’t even a perverted faith - it is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder and we know what the objective is. They seek to divide Londoners. They seek to turn Londoners against each other. I said yesterday to the International Olympic Committee, that the city of London is the greatest in the world, because everybody lives side by side in harmony. Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack. They will stand together in solidarity alongside those who have been injured and those who have been bereaved and that is why I’m proud to be the mayor of that city.
Finally, I wish to speak directly to those who came to London today to take life.
I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others - that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail.
In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential.
They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They don’t want that and nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.”
Ken Livingstone
Mayor of London
7/7
Alot has happened in my life the last few days, but all has been eclipsed by events yesterday: What will probably come to be known as 7/7. Yesterday the day that we had been waiting for. The day the terrorists hit London. I feel so strange. The attacks have really hit my heart. Seeing so much pain and distruction in a place I call home is invoking emotions in me that I didn't know I had. The threat has always been there, and yet we have all tried to put it to the back of our minds. Yesterday it all became real. Seeing the terrible events unfolding in areas which are familiar to myself, receiving calls from people making sure I'm ok, and watching the photos of those missing on TV, amongst other things, are making me well up with tears. And yet I feel an immense level of pride. I don't think I have ever been prouder to call myself British. For me, Donald Rumsfeld summed it up best with the following statement (quoted from The Times):
"If these terrorists thought they could intimidate the people of a great nation, they picked the wrong people and the wrong nation. For generations, tyrants, fascists, and terrorists have sought to carry out their violent designs upon the British people only to founder upon its unrelenting shores,"
"Before long, I suspect that those responsible for these acts will encounter British steel. Their kind of steel has an uncommon strength. It does not bend or break."
"The British have learned from history that this kind of evil must be confronted. It cannot be appeased''
Yesterday my life changed. And yet I will carry on in defiance. We must not live in fear, as if we do, the terrorists have won. I love this country, I love London, and I love the unique multiculturalism of this great land. These cowardly acts have only served to unite a nation: Never before can I remember seeing images of the Queen making unscheduled visits to a hospital!
To end this post I would like to express my thanks and great admiration to all of those involved in yesterdays rescue efforts: The emergency services reacted in such a professional way and cannot be faulted, The public's reaction was exceptional, and definitive of the 'British spirit'. I would also like to express my condolences to all those affected by yesterdays events. My prayers are with you.
Neil x
Exams, Exams and, oh yeah, exams...
Ok so the exams up until now have been alright: not good, not bad, just alright. But next week I think I'm really going to come unstuck. I've done NO revision for my A2 exams as of yet. I keep making excuses and procrastinating, but never actually get around to doing any. Today's excuse is I'm waiting for the sun to come out so that I can revise in the garden. Can't believe what a twat I am! Only ten days and it's all over :-D
Shit!
After giving up revising for the night I've just realised my economics exam is tomorrow morning and not in the afternoon! I'm f*cked!
The First
So this is the first post, the night before an A level economics exam probably isn't the most sensible time to start a blog but I've got so much going on in my head at the moment that it seemed like a good idea. So as I continue with this blog I will be revealing my life as it is now, and the changes as I go through them so enjoy!!
N x
