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The Queen's university |
Good grief. What a bunch of suckholes! "The Queen's"!! No Queen (as opposed to "queen"?*) has ever even attended a university!!! They could at least name it after one of their own (mind you, Lex went to Monash and Melbourne Universities, and neither the wonderful John Monash nor any Lord Melbourne attended the university named for them, although Monash did attend Melbourne University! And was Australian!!). I know, re-name Queen's after a little murdered innocent who never got the chance to finish school, let alone attend a university, and the equally innocent wife of a judge, also murdered, because of the appallingly, stupidly wasteful fighting in Ireland.💔 Majella O'Hare & Cecily Johnson's University *Buggrit. Have I just been sexist/genderist/whateverist? If so, give me a hoy and I'll remove the "joke". 💔For those who need reminding of the little 12 year-old girl murdered by a soldier sent out into a hostile environment by uncaring sociopaths who took 39 years to apologise, and the wife of the corrupt and/or (perhaps!) incompetent judge who found that soldier not guilty even of manslaughter, check this out. |
bloody belfast |
Sandy arrived in Northern Ireland at an absolutely terrible time. Catholics were fighting to increase their power, and Protestants were fighting to hang on to what they had.
Both sides were literally tearing apart the city of Belfast and its people - and we mean "literally". Sandy recalls the sound of bombs and gunfire, and recalls getting accidentally mixed up in an |
IRA march confronted by British troops.
The joint was packed with British troops, just a year after the murders of Bloody Sunday when the troops opened fire on a crowd of unarmed Catholics, murdering several. Sandy says that even though he was only in Belfast for around a year, this was the time this previously cosseted young man grew up. |
sandy "meets" an |
Naturally, on an island with a great literary tradition, Sandy came across and still admires the work of many Irish poets and authors.
Equally naturally, however, showing a high degree of perversity, the discovery which made the greatest impression on him was the work of an English-born American bloke in a country where most of the people hate the English. With pretty good reason! Mind you, for protective reasons the Proddie majority in Northern Ireland want to hang on to the poms. But, at the time of writing (2017), as the English madly advance with their insane Brexit project the Northern Irish (and the Scots) voted so strongly against, things could change. Although, apart from combining with Eire, which seems a smidgen unlikely, as Eire represents what the Northern Irish Proddies want protection from, the Micks, we find it hard to see how it could survive as an independent nation. Frankly, with the poms having scoffed up most of the North Sea oil, the Scots would struggle a bit, too. Vale the "United Kingdom"? Or, "We're all stuck in the shit together!"? Anyway, this bloke was the poet W. H. Auden, and indeed Sandy has written a book about Auden's literary output. |
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