Well, welcome to 2005. It’s going to be a pretty important year for me (yeah, GCSEs) the country – General Elections! Even the world will experience big things in 2005, but then that’s really true each year, isn’t it?
The holiday has obviously been muted by the terrible disaster in Asia. However, the response from everyone around the world has been incredible. It has shown that a globally connected community is a good thing. The problem now is not lack of cash, or raising awareness, but the difficulties of physically getting aid to the region.
I’ve been updating my version of the plugin and, unfortunately, you will now have to re-subscribe to email updates from this blog using the form at the bottom of this page. The good news is that this is the last time you’ll ever have to – as the terms have changed. I can now see the email addresses of everyone who has subscribed and will automatically re-sign you up if I upgrade again.
(Don’t subscribe if you aren’t happy about this, although I promise not to share any addresses with any third party, as usual.)
Although I’m not really sorry – it is Christmas after all and I’ve got things to do! Why bore you with the fact I went to the dentist (true) when I could be having fun (true) and learning how to partition TARDIS – I even installed Windows 3.11 on it the other day (also true!)
Basically, I’ll get back blogging properly when I go back to school, get given loads of stuff to do and use it as a way of avoiding homework. Happy Holidays!
P.S. The comment spam continues, but my defences are working a treat. Mwhaha!
Well, tonight was the last in the series (I presume) – it’s back ‘in the new year’.
We’ll see, of course, but it looks like the BBC have made the guest presenter arrangement permanent. It keeps the programme very fresh in my opinion. A new host would always appeal to some of the audience more than others, so why not have a mixture?
Why, by the way, are there so few sites dedicated to HIGNFY? I mean, look at the Yahoo Directory listing, it’s pathetic. Martyn Alner is about the only guy to have made anything. Sigh, I might have to do it myself sometime.
I suppose everyone has their own dream candidate to host a show. Personally, I’d love to see Jon Stewart, who seems to work his way into a scarily large number of my blog posts at the moment. Angus Deayton also needs a come back, maybe as a guest? In fantasy land now, but imagine Blair? Maybe when he resigns over Iraq he’ll consider it… (Told you I was in fantasy land.)
Christmas TV looks especially dire this year to be honest. At least we got The Office Christmas Specials last time, although Dead Ringers has been on a real high recently and so their show should be worth watching at least.
Christmas comes but once a year, and this season we’re getting some special gifts a little early. David Blunkett has gone. David ‘Police State’ Blunkett is out.
Now, let’s be fair. I respect Blunkett because he believes in what he is doing, and it seems that he really hasn’t done anything wrong. It’s the best way for him to go – the door is firmly closed but he hasn’t left in disgrace. There’s a huge feeling of sympathy for the man, and that’s good.
But, change in the Home Office is much needed. David Blunkett has been obsessed with chasing headlines and seeing just how far he can go to annoy civil rights groups. The holding of prisoners at Belmarsh without trial is a low point for British dignity. And we all know the real reason Blunkett has gone – it’s nothing to do with visas or nannies and everything to do with the bizare slagging of his colleagues.
It’s doubly good that Blunkett is out because now Charles Clarke can take his place. The man who keeps pushing City Academies [spits on floor] can now go and be ‘the hard man’ where we need one – in the Home Office. Yes, you read that right, we need a toughie to take on the misery of crime that affects the worst off in this country. (Oh, and ever since he put Prince Charles in his place, I’ve always had a soft spot for Clarke.)
So – things get interesting (again) – for one thing, I wonder how this affects Blair? Only time will tell… along with the journalists, columnists and bloggers, of course. But don’t listen to them. They’re just happy it’s Christmas.
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
