Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13
- @AndiSmith We love you too Andi in reply to AndiSmith #
- @james_dunmore Go on then… in reply to james_dunmore #
- @james_dunmore yeah I’ve had the dev version of chrome running for a bit - got used to it on windows, firefox seems sluggish in comparison in reply to james_dunmore #
- Is hoping that Libby sleeps tonight… #
- @james_dunmore been using it for a while - seems pretty good to me in reply to james_dunmore #
- @AMYADAMS11 more mince pies is the answer
in reply to AMYADAMS11 # - @Mina_Timperley Excellent! in reply to Mina_Timperley #
- @Mina_Timperley it all sorted itself out then? in reply to Mina_Timperley #
Grab your torch and pitchforks
It’s not really anything to do with pitchforks or ogres but hundreds of people walking along with torches (yes real flaming torches) does make me think of pitchforks and hunting ogres. Nasty creatures CR 3 I believe.
Anyway we went to the 38th Annual Carol Service in Halstead where everyone gets to carry a lit torch down the highstreet to the park before singing carols. Libby loved it all, lots of people around and lots of things to point at which is her favourite thing at the moment. It was a fun thing to do and we saw loads of people we know - I’m not sure how we’ve missed this for the past two years - it’s strange the things that having children makes you do I guess!
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Politics: afghanistan gordon brown human stories miltary Politics war
by Rob
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Go on then tell me how to judge Afghanistan
With the 100th British solider being killed this year in Afghanistan this week, those named by the media as the British Military bosses are again saying don’t judge us by the casualties alone. But what am I then to judge them on? I’m no stranger to the news, especially online - I even listen to Radio 4 occasionally but yet I don’t see many reports on how the ‘war’ is progressing?
I’m not 100% sure that I was convinced by the initial arguments for the campaign in Afghanistan but we now have troops there I think that they deserve our support and respect for what they do. I think that ultimately ensuring peaceful democracies around the world is the ‘right’ thing to do even if sending in the troops to do it does seem a little hypocritical. Gordon Brown’s argument that we are protecting Britain by bringing stability to this region does seem to hold some truth but then it doesn’t seem to cut it in Europe so why should we buy that without question in the UK? The mainstream media would have us believe that the Iraq war was based on a transatlantic whim so why should we just accept what the Government have to say this time?
We are constantly told that the campaign is progressing on one hand then that we’re not getting anywhere on the other, depending on who is talking. There are various commentators that talk about how we’re getting nowhere and that we should bring the troops home and there are those who are all for sending more. I’m not sure who we should believe.
I think that we need (deserve?) some more concrete statements about what a difference our involvement in the region is having, stories from the area where we learn about children able to go to school without risk or farmers that can now support their communities without having to grow drug crops. There is some of this around but I haven’t seen it in the mainstream media - they prefer to focus on bashing Gordon Brown it seems. I may be wrong of course and may have just missed the human story that would go a long way to showing the British public what a difference we have made to the lives of these people, and how we should be judging the campaign.
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Holidays: christmas. elmer father christmas Libby presents rayne
by Rob
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Father Christmas!
It was Rayne School’s fete on Saturday and they had Father Christmas there. So as we were priviledged to be there before he saw any of the children Libby was lucky enough to get to see him!
She was undecided for a moment (when Mummy managed to snap the picture), before deciding that having Daddy hold her was a much less risky option. After she had assured Father Christmas that she’d been a good girl for most of the year she got an early present - we all like Elmer, he’s everyones favourite patchwork elephant!
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Talking to the other side of the world
Last week we sat down at 6.30pm and spoke to Ian over skype. It was great to catch up - I think it was 7.30am for him, he was still in bed in his pants! The picture to the left shows what Ian could see.
It was great to talk about the less facebooked (is that a verb yet?) aspects of his trip to New Zealand and his forays into Australia. It was nice for Libby to see him too as he’s going to be away for some time yet, even Carol got a peek at her. Sounds like amongst other things the hygine at Fijian hostels can be questionable but that the walks in that part of the world are breathtaking.
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