I've been taking time out
Posted: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
In Ness there isn't enough time to take a gap year what with peats, guga, lambing and a summer football season so the best a young guy can manage is a couple of months. After a chat with the local minister, I decided to go and spend two months working with the poor in England. So poor are they down there that they have to drink water from bottles instead of going to the well or having taps. I helped put soem taps into some houses along with thousands of plumbers from Poland who have come to England to help with aid. I visited Primark and Mark One where the poor shop and saw how the Far East is sending clothes over for the English at a price that is putting their charity shops out of business. Given that most Englsih shopping centres are predominantly charity shops, this is a ticking time bomb. Soon all the charity shops will be closing and Primark will have won. I watched the poor at ply on Scarborough beach with their tribal tattoos and characteristic shaved heads and that was justthe women. It is comforting to think that they have a vote even if they only have a dieet of chips and something called fish bits. I am back in Lewis with full larders and running water, with no Primark just good old emorioalanjohn and a weallth of produce. I am working on a scheme to send rabbit from the Eoropie machair to areas of negative equity and have the neighbours knitting blankets for a family in Saint John's Wood. Maybe a flag day for the English - what do you think?
Serioulsy I've been working on a film called 'Snappers' in Torbay due for release in late 08 starring Mark Benton Kate Winslett, Joss Stone and Chrissie Mry Morrison if she'll get on the casting couch with me. Hence the lack of blogs.
Serioulsy I've been working on a film called 'Snappers' in Torbay due for release in late 08 starring Mark Benton Kate Winslett, Joss Stone and Chrissie Mry Morrison if she'll get on the casting couch with me. Hence the lack of blogs.
Posted on calumannabel at 17:09