What a great big week.

Very little photographic evidence, but it has been a great week.  From the BGP pub session in Waltham Cross at the start of the week,  when I also managed to catch up with a friend and ate lovely home made Ethiopian food.  Then on Wednesday it was down to London to see the production of Lonely Londoners at the Kiln theatre.  I had to come back to Hertfordshire as I had salsa and some volunteer teaching on Thursday but then went back to London. Now today I have taken part in the Great British Birdwatch and been to the East Herts Green Party Campaign Launch, with Carla Denyer.   

As a journalist I interviewed Tony Benn, I was in Maggie's constituency reporting, but on the whole chose not to cover her visits myself,  a good friend of mine,  sadly now long dead, her husband, was in the first SNP Government,  another friend was in the first Bhutanese Government, which is pretty cool and I even met the brother in law of Ang Sang Suu Kyi,  but meeting both leaders of the Green Party is up there.   The party is tiny, compared with most in the UK, it does not get rich funders, supporters like myself have to put their hands in their pockets to make it work, which can be frightening at times, but despite the odds against us, we now have 4 MPs, 2 representatives in the Lords, and over 800 Councillors. With Trump in the White House and even the Labour Party in the UK throwing out their net zero policies, it is a doubly frightening time for the planet, so it felt wonderful to be in the room, not where it happened, but where it might happen.   More people need to vote green and around the world more needs to be done, but to have a bit of hope is not a bad thing. 

Red kite

Especially after a week when the felon in the White House decided to stop all "illegal migration" on the grounds that it is illegal, and the English school that I work for decided that having native speakers who live in England is too expensive. So, we are about to be replaced by A.I. Trump does feel like some weird A.I. robot that has gone wrong and Elon too.  Strange times but for a moment hopeful times too.