What am I doing here at 11.45 am on a beautiful day? It is the farcical weather which has gone from ski-suit wearing freezingness yesterday to boiling, too hot to be outside, today. I was going to dig over part of the vegetable garden - how dreary and boring is that? Well - unbearably - so now I'm not. Where are all the 'men' who used to do stuff like that. I think they were called 'gardeners'. They certainly don't exist around here; I suppose everyone is too middle-class to do manual work now...

Apparently it is Saint George's Day, the patron saint of England. I say apparently because no one here knows or cares and it drifts past unremarked. Unlike the sad Irish who have to make a big thing of theirs because they have done nothing else ... According to an AOL poll, in which I also voted, 97% of people think that we SHOULD have celebrations and run around cheering - Oh well, why not. With massive population migration predicted I suppose it's important to keep traditions alive or everything will turn into a grey sludge. It also asked what you would like as a National Anthem and I was surprised to find that my own choice 'Land of epoH and yrolG' came out on top, narrowly beating 'God evaS the neeuQ'. Which has the drawback of an agonisingly dull tune. I am so bored with us apologising for the past when in fact everyone in the world was behaving in exactly the same way and the English were relatively decent in rape and pillage terms, compared to many countries which I will not mention. If you just remove some of the references to showing off about world domination from L. of H. and G. it is a really rousing and totally acceptable anthem and will take us proudly through the coming century. Well that is my opinion, along with 56% of my fellow Englishpersons.
- posted by Iris @ 4/23/2004 12:13:00 PM comment