Monday

Miserable nights sleep - compounded by the dogs waking up at 3am most nights and getting restless - seems to me that the nights are much longer than usual this year. Very tired as a consequence.

In today's Daily Mail - there is a 'nice' clash of exclusives - they have been trailing the story of a housing worker or something who has been demoted for complaining that there was 'too much' equality and that homosexuals have too many rights ( on his facebook page ) but it's be deposed from the online front page by another story - a young man in Ayrshire who was attacked, beaten, tied to a lampost and set on fire - the police are saying it's a homophobic hate crime. That such things happen in the UK makes me sick to my stomach - no more so than yesterday when the government expressed disquiet and concern that the people of Libya had already soiled their reputation by the killing of Gadaffi - rather patronising and dishonest - considering he had just managed to escape an allied drone attack on his convoy that left dozens of people burned to death in their vehicles.

In another exclusive from the Daily Mail ( I bet you keep asking yourself, why does he read this shit if it winds him up so much? ) - something else caught my eye. Whenever they have articles about pointless bimbo types in nightclubs - they always 'catch a Taxi back to Essex' after a hard night of cocktails and 4 inch heels. I lived in London for years - I couldn't get a cab to go South of the River, let alone Essex....

Something more cheerful. after a static protest last night in St Leonards, Nick Griffin of the BNP didn't turn up as advertised to give an address at a local public hall - well done people of Hastings and St Leonards.

I have to go into the college for a couple of hours this morning - I'd rather not - but it kick starts the week. My spelling is now further handicapped by many of the letters on the keyboard, mostly vowels, being rubbed off. Not ideal. I did once try and clean an older style keyboard with a hoover and sucked all the keys off into the bag, putting them back in the right order was... a challenge.