Anyway, personal decision but I wouldn’t want to have looked back after 1945 and known that in the 1930s I still subscribed to a publication owned by a leading Nazi and being on X now is the modern equivalent.
Tiny gesture, will make zero difference in the grand scheme of things I know. But still.
Can’t speak to the sort of Brits that move to Australia though because I’ve cultivated my own bubble of only being friends with those who aren’t dicks. But sure those dicks are here too, I just don’t move in those circles.
Did tell my kids once about the crisps where you had to put the little blue bag of salt in and shake it to flavour…and they looked at me like I was from medieval times 🤣
I have a tiny spare room as my ‘office’ and I have to position the camera in such a way that it doesn’t show the cardboard box of cables and chargers and an old vacuum cleaner I can’t bring myself to throw away. There are some books in that room but can’t be arsed making them a feature 😂
And people who sneer or make disparaging comments make my blood boil. Either they’ve always had the advantage of wealth and don’t appreciate it or they had opportunities of education and knowledge but wish to pull the ladder up behind them. Either way I don’t like it.
I’ve been really lucky to have my world expanded beyond the Essex estate I grew up in and love a fortunate life which I’m grateful for and discovering my local library was a huge part of that. I wonder sometimes if the me of 30+ years ago was there now would they have that same opportunity?
I’ll give this one a pass as it’s not a cavernous bowl and full to the rafters. Giving me Stade Louis II vibes (although when I went there for Monaco v Nancy there were fewer fans than this one 😂)
And Mark Milligan’s Newcastle Jets are 1-0 down against Heidelberg. And the lazy c**t is probably still covering more yards and running quicker sat in the dugout than he ever did in a Southend shirt.
But there are plenty of families not in that position. Reading and owning books (let alone have a bookcase full of them) has become something that’s a privilege which many can’t afford after they put a roof over their head and food on the table
Pure snobbery. Now - I have bookcases, my kids have bookcases.
But I was lucky as a working class kid in a time when there was still a functioning school library and local public libraries to give me a love of books that I could pass on. And fortunate enough that we can afford books now.
I fly out to the UK on the morning of 8th December and wonder if I’ll bump into Ange during the stopover at Dubai with him heading back to Australia after he’s sacked by Forest? 😳
I don’t have any religion, I’m equally indifferent to all of them. But people should have the right to worship whatever God or Deity they want safely. This is appalling
