Topic: Politics
Animals.
I’ve been scooped. I was going to comment on the spate of attacks on Stingrays in Australia, pointing out that while the message will be lost on the Stingrays themselves, I like the way that Aussies have demonstrated retaliatory capacity. But Harry Hutton at Chasemeladies, www.chasemeladies.blogspot.com has done it far better than I could, and thrown in a gratuitous reference to Mark Steyn too!
http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/2006/09/stingray-killings-may-be-irwin-revenge.html
Harry’s been on fine form lately. If you’re looking for some Miros-type humour to make up for the fact that Lord Miros hasn’t updated for months, then check him out. Please note that despite making frequent references to High Wycombe, we are not the same person. He’s far more critical of the place than I am. Any town whose municipal waste tip is named ‘High Heaven’ can’t be all bad.
Children.
I’m often amused at the way that children are held to be innocent of matters of politics. Of course they don’t have to discuss how budgets are allocated or fight over tax revenues, but they engage in plenty of machinations about the one thing they do need and have to offer – friendship. So I’m grateful to six-year old Amy at www.CatCoolamy.blogspot.com for reminding us of this, by relating the fluctuating fortunes of her various friendships at Fircroft School.
Back when she started blogging in April, her best friend was Alfie.
http://catcoolamy.blogspot.com/2006/04/fircroft-school.html
despite the awkward age difference
http://catcoolamy.blogspot.com/2006/04/alfie-and-matthew.html
Amy, Alfie and another boy named Matthew used to have fun turning into things:
http://catcoolamy.blogspot.com/2006/04/me-and-my-friends.html
But over the summer things seem to have gone wrong. Her mother has reported rude notes with unpleasant anti-Amy messages being stuck on their front door
http://happysillyfun.blogspot.com/2006/08/notes-stuck-on-our-front-door.html
and finally Amy has had to make the break. She is no longer friends with Alfie and Matthew.
http://catcoolamy.blogspot.com/2006/09/im-not-your-friend.html
I’m pleased that she’d found new friends and I wish her well in the difficult world of playground politics. If only the alliances of children were as simple and straightforward as those of the major world superpowers.
