The Fatslayer Chronicles

Jul 7, 2005 at 21:51 o\clock

The chickens have come home to roost...

by: Fatslayer

There's not much to say today, is there? It's all just so bloody senseless and pointless. Most of us ordinary English folks are as anti the Iraq war and the exploitation of the Middle East as the average Muslim is! Surely all the anti-war demo's prove that? The argument should be with our government, not with innocent folks just trying to do a decent day's bloody work.

On a selfish note, my sister and my best friend are safe (they were at Liverpool Street when the 2nd bomb went off), but I had to wait 6 hours before I could get through to them, and I felt literally sick with worry the whole day. The anxiety, and watching the news bulletins, was like being transported back in time to Birmingham during the IRA mainland campaign, and waiting for my brother to come home when his favourite drinking haunt was bombed. The thoughtless bugger didn't come home for three days, 'cos he was recuperating from his (minor) injuries at his mate's house, and then he just sauntered in as if disappearing for three days during a bombing campaign was normal behaviour. My mom couldn't make up her mind whether to hug him or throttle him!

Ring home, people!

Comments for this entry:

  1. BethK wrote at Jul 8, 2005 at 16:54 o\clock:As near as I can tell, these ass-hats want a war and this is how they goad us, ordinary, working folk into playing. In my government\'s arrogance, they seem to think they can win this and they\'ll squander the life of every last soldier to prove it. I didn\'t vote for them last time, I didn\'t vote for them this time, though, none of that seems to do the rest of the world any good. I went through university durning the Reagan years (didn\'t vote for him either.) That cold war shit didn\'t scare me nearly as much as what\'s going on in Washington today.



    Don\'t apologize for being concerned about your sis and best-friend. You must have been going out of your mind. I\'m glad they\'re okay.



    Your brother - Oh yeah, big hug followed by a nice right-cross to the jaw.
  2. Kirsten2 wrote at Jul 9, 2005 at 00:32 o\clock:Amen to everything Beth said. It is an appalling thing to happen. All my friends and family are OK too... but my sister was on a plane on 11 September, so we do know what it feels like to wait and worry.



    This feels trivial... but are you from Birmingham originally, then? I know bits of it quite well (boyfriend\'s family are Midlanders).



    Thanks for the tips about UK blogs, btw. I know about the wondrous Dietgirl already, but (stupidly) don\'t think of her as a UK blogger as she was still in Canberra when I first encountered her. Then she moved here and until she got married this spring, she was living, ooh, about a mile from me. I felt like an inadvertent stalker... which made me a bit shy about offering to meet up, but we are planning to do so soon.
  3. Fatslayer wrote at Jul 9, 2005 at 15:24 o\clock:Yep, I\'m from Kings Norton, which is one of the most southerly suburbs of Brimingham. I moved to Norfolk to go to University in 1983 and have lived here ever since!



    Say hi to Dietgirl when you meet her, and tell her she\'s one of my all-time blog heroes!




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