Struggling on

The plan was to go to old house for the day, in the end we made it for the afternoon. The children were slightly resentful, and even more so as it became obvious that we weren’t going to fit Harry Potter into the day. They did enjoy scootering, running around and screaming for a little while, while we emptied rubbish from the garage and piled charity shop stuff into the boot, but quite soon I loaded them up and took them over to Kirsty’s, not least as the snow was making running around and screaming quite a cold activity.

Tim and I moved all the currently packed boxes into the garage, and half of the charity shop stuff fitted in the boot, so both the living room and dining room are a lot emptier than they were. So’s the garage for that matter, although the bins are rather fuller 😉

The children very much enjoyed time with Kirsty’s two – they are going to miss them 🙁 Kirsty made them pizza for tea, which really helped – I’m going to miss having her about too 🙁 We chatted for a while during pick up time, and somehow got on to genealogy and started looking up my grandfather – made much more difficult by a lack of information from my parents. It seems possible that he was in 1 Para though, right at the beginning of the parachute regiment, so that was quite a find.

Stopped off on the way home for fish (for Tim) and chips (to share) and accidentally watched Men In Black II. I also did quite a lot of research into what’s been being said on home education or home schooling in parliament, which was very educational. There’s a chap called Nick Gibb in the conservatives who seems very clued up which is in direct contrast to pretty much every other politician on the planet 🙁

The more I look into stuff like this, the more I think that the system we have bears absolutely no relationship to democracy. We hold elections in which hardly anyone votes, which then use a first past the post system which can easily discount over half the votes, thus returning a government who actually achieved less than a quarter of the electorate voting for them. They then use this mandate (hah!) to push through all kinds of legislation completely ignoring the feeble moans of constituents who are reduced to writing to MPs that do very little to represent them.

Bleargh.

I think I must have low blood sugar, off to have lunch.

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