Thursday, 11 November 2010

My mum is here, and obviously it is the best

When you read that, it seems like it's going to be followed by a "but..." "My mum is here, and obviously it's the best, but actually it's terrible and the worst." Maybe I just think that because there was a thing in the paper yesterday where a Tory MP, as a nice joke, said on Twitter that this journalist should be stoned to death. And everyone, especially the journalist, went Oh My GOD what is the MATTER with you, and he issued this most feeble and half-hearted statement where he went "Obviously, I apologise". And I don't even know what it is about that which makes it seem that actually he doesn't at all apologise. Maybe I am too sensitive to nuance. Not in a way of being smart; more in a way of fault-finding.
ANYWAY.
My mum is here, and obviously it is the best. I'm so pleased to see her. Yesterday we spent a quite long train trip flicking through the newspaper and agreeing about everything, and I just loved it. And then we came home and watched the news and agreed about everything again, both very vehement sitting up real straight on the couch and kicking our little legs with indignation and/or happiness. Today we are going to the British Library and then Ottolenghi and then Hampstead Heath, "weather permitting", which of COURSE it won't.

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