Too much going on to keep up, but this is great fun.

 So much is going on at present it is almost hard to keep up.  Alongside the negative news about Covid and many countries in the world etc we continue with our attempts to relaunch the Greens locally,  and  internationally there have been the Earthshot awards which have been inspirational and positive.  I felt very pleased and a little smug to realise that a small group I donated to back in 2018,  Coral Vita was not only still going,  which was a relief,  but that it was one of the winners so that is really positive news.  One of my tenants best friends has just become one of the joint leaders of the Green Party,  so really hope he can help the party break through and make a difference.     I am over three quarters of the way through my short Introduction to Permaculture Course,  put on by Wyld Edges, and now have to do some design work to complete the course, so writing this as part of displacement activity.    And at last more locally the allotments seem to have more support.  I was up there today with my neighbours planting bulbs, so that was lovely.   And having fallen over and broken my guitar teacher's guitar,  I finally have a guitar of my own, as he kindly found me one.   I have even written a song inspired by the racist attitude of my son's headmaster who attacked my son for his beautiful cane rows and when my son refused to give in to his bullying,  the school found a way to punish him, by not allowing him to flower educationally.     If I can work out how to play the tune I can try and upload it but just present the basic lyrics for present.  

My baby's hair don't cut it. 

Oh my baby's hair don't cut it. 

My baby's hair don't cut it. 

That's what the big man said.  

You can't do that in my school

Don't care that it looks cool

I'm the one that makes the rules

That's what the big man said/says.  

Don't care what your muma says.  

Don't care what your popa says. 

Don't care about the folks back home. 

That's what the big man sayZ. 

My baby's hair - reprise or add additional verses as you want. 

And from a mum's point of view, how wonderful to have my son's beauty captured in a wacky ad for a Swedish company.   His previous ad has been viewed over a million times.  In this one he is the main lead and it has been viewed by almost half a million people.  Extraordinary.  

The Joy of Having Very Very Very Little Work followed by an insane weekend.

 8.15 - 9.15 Tai Chi at local community centre  followed by a walk back through the Lee Valley collecting rosehips. 

After breakfast a read and a relax.  I fell over and broke the guitar I have been loaned on Tuesday, but trying to get a tune out of it still just to have some practice, so spent some time on this. 

Followed this up by time on the car parking space that thinks it is a garden,  by drawing a zone of plants for the Permaculture course activity. 

Cooked a lovely aubergine dish in the oven with fruit pie for afters, then headed upstairs to do some research for the Green Party.  

Have just started work on video of the holiday in Croatia but will then finally have some work and then sort out the rose hips before watching TV and going to bed early ready for my weekend in London. 

Work pays for these activities but now lucky if I get 10 hours a week, but instead I have time.  

Saturday ,Sunday, Monday

Lovely sunny day.  Train to a very busy Windsor.  It is years since I have been there and everyone was out enjoying the sun.   Had a slight panic on route that it was beyond the zone of my train card, but not charged extra once there.  Popped into a little art exhibition and spent 5 minutes with artist Carole Benton looking at her work, then had a nice wonder along the river before heading back into town and the London Film Festival showing of Encounter starring Riz Ahmed, which was very frightening at times so was very glad I was in both the company of friends and a full cinema.   It was wonderful hearing everyone gasping together.  When we came out London was absolutely packed and each restaurant had a long queue.  Luckily my intrepid friend pinned down a Pizza Express member of staff so got us on the waiting list, then manoeuvred us to a pub for quick drink.    I cannot get served when a pub is quiet, so hats off to friend for getting served straight away in a packed London pub.  Tube up the creak after, so did not get home to late, so spent much of Sunday recovering before heading back up to London for the Sting hip hop dance production Message in a Bottle.    At the beginning we were told we should not film during the production, but could film the end dance, so I found it annoying that a couple of people were filming during the show - the former usher in me kept getting distracted, so I raised it with the usher hovering on duty.  However, the problem with that is she was next to me at the end so whilst I knew we could film then I felt too shy too and so didn't get Sting coming on to stage to take a bow!   The show had been on last year but the poster did not grab me then I saw a TV s how on it and realised it was exactly my kind of thing,  as this You Tube example from the end of the show highlights. 

The weekend had a slight downside, as I could not get the computer I had taken with me to work so had to cancel work, rushed back from London late last night and now back home and my other computer did not work so more cancelled work.   I am also shattered as unexpectedly got to see family members on Monday evening and did not get home till midnight, so quite a weekend.