I have been taken to task by my uncle for my glib comments about Bush winning the US presidential election. In case you missed the fact that I’ve got some comments on a blog entry, Check it out!

It is very easy for me to to sit at my computer and bemoan the loss of American civil rights, so I will take up the challenge and research into exactly what has happened in the last four years for US citizens and report back here. (This also gives me some blog topics :)

Of course, the conversation has already morphed into more than civil rights, so I intend to do some research on some of the issues raised with regard to Iraq and the UN as well.

No promises on time scale though as I’m reworking the photo album at the moment to make it more usable :)

Ben had his first solid food today. Well, when I say solid, I mean baby rice… he seemed to enjoy it, even if most of it ended up on his bib!

Great news for Ivan.

It was quite clear that the North East does not want a regional assembly. This is hardly suprising as it’s not like the people in power listen to us, the people. What’s the point of another body to take our tax money and do nothing useful?

The funniest part was John Prescott saying “As a government we believe in letting the people have their say”. I don’t even know where to begin with this one, but this government has never struck me as a listening one.

Looks like Bush is going to win. So we can confidently expect to see more rights of the US people eroded and at least one more country invaded by America. If I was going to bet, I’d say George will choose another country with a good oil reserve.

I feel sorry for American citizens abroad. They have to endure 4 more years of living with people who dislike their country’s regime.

Apparently we won’t be moving to the new place we expected to be moving to after all. The landlord has decided to take it off the market. Oh well. I might be working from home in the new year after all…

Georgina and I went and looked at the local primary school today as Jon’s starting school next year. I’m reserving judgement at the moment until I have some more schools to compare against.

I pop out to Tesco this evening to pick up a couple of bits. Standing proudly next to the door is a bill board which is usually used to advertise stuff in shop. Today it’s got “Coming Soon! New Cash Machine!” on it… Why? I mean Why? This Tesco already has 3 cash machines and I’m 100% sure that I won’t be shopping there more often because there’s either 4 or that the current ones are shinier. Will anyone?

This weekend we’re back to the busy social calendar with a party for Jon yesterday and a Baptism for a friend’s children today. It’s a Catholic baptism, which will be a new experience for me as I’ve never been to one before.

Jon really enjoyed his party yesterday though was a bit clingy when dropped him off at Laura’s house. It was the first party he’s been to where we’ve left him there on his own. However, once I had left, he promptly forgot about me as usual :) I took the opportunity to pop into town and get some shopping done and only just made it back in time to collect him!

Played SWG again last night for the first time in ages. Was a blast as I didnt’ feel like I was on the treadmill to advance my character and just spent the night firing my blaster :)

Chris Witter says it much better than me! Go read this piece now!