Now incorporating The Sudbury Hill Harrow and Wherever End Times

Monday, August 25, 2003

Uncle Rupert has been out and taken some pictures that convey something of the sense of today's Notting Hill Carnival, the biggest annual street party in Europe. Getting on for a million people tend to materialise in and around Notting Hill.

3 comments:

Comments 2003-2004 said...




___________________________



The links in this piece led me to Sky News. And I watched the BBC broadcast on television tonight. I knew there was a good reason for making the Willesden Herald my newspaper of choice. (I'm ignoring the mass suicide article.)

Anyway, what the heck happened in Paris/France this month? What does 400 unclaimed bodies and almost 10,000 people dead have to do with higher civilisation in the enlightened nation of France? The sad events have given me the impression that people there don't look after each other very well.

Post by : Cheryl (cache-mtc-am01.proxy.aol.com / )


___________________________



Au contraire, the quality of solitude in Paris must be of a high order, all the more reason to spend old age there.

Post by : Malachy (host81-129-72-191.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )


___________________________



Was it the quality of solitude that encouraged civic workers to wear breathing masks this past week? Ah non, mon frere. It was the quality of decay of the unembalmed.
Either that or a particularly pungent type of fromage.

Post by : Cheryl (cache-rq06.proxy.aol.com / )


___________________________

NUJ

I am surprised Ossian Lennon has let this buying in of photos from Murdoch's blackleg operation go without complaint. His (Lennon's) photos are much better - nay, classics of the genre.

Having been battered by police at Wapping in their role as Murdoch's security guards me and the brothers in this chapel of the NUJ register our creeping disquiet to management.

Mal Castro
Chapel Father

Post by : Mal Castro (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

Ah...to die in Paris

Ah...to die in Paris, perhaps at the start of Autumn or in the evening of that peculiar Summer evening on whose breeze is carried the first intimation of the end of itself - in the fifth or sixth arrondissement, or the eighth, with the sounds of the street drifting to the open window, and the sounds of the language, the beautiful language, and the fragrance of that tobacco, from afar. And someone telling a story about Stein.

Crispin Farqhar
Cruggs Pet Supplies
Willesden Green

Post by : Crispin Farqhar (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

Comments 2003-2004 said...



They hate us

The old frogs hate us, especially in Paris. They think we are muck. I ordered sausage and chips and the geezer brought me two cold frankfurters and a plate of crisps.

John
(Full name withheld by request)

Post by : John (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

Language problem

And very few of them have bothered to learn English. We found it a very difficult place to get what we wanted.

Post by : Dora Benbow (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

and the Dutch

The Dutch are like that too. Sometimes you feel like giving them a slap.

Post by : Bez (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

England o England

I can't understand why people feel the need to go and spend their money abroad. We've got everything here you could want and just lately we're getting the weather. We went to Wells next the Sea, all you could want was in one street, there's a very good tattoist, you can understand what people are talking about and if you want foreign stuff there's a shop that sells those rain sticks and little drums. The food was great, lots of fish and chips and crabs and you can get a proper cup of tea and a decent pint.



Post by : Marco (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

My dear fellow

My dear fellow, to leave these isles is a joy, especially to visit Europe. It reminds us what a ground down people we are.

Post by : Crispin Farqhar (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

Brits ground down?

Perhaps Mr. Farqhar could expand on that statement. It appeared to me that they were sky high at the Notting Hill Carnival.

Post by : Cheryl (cache-dp09.proxy.aol.com / )


___________________________

Ah dear lady

Ah dear lady I fear that the height attained was a result of inhaling the fumes of cannabis, our latter-day gin.

If Hogarth were among us today in this crime-ridden, pollution-choked, rip-off culture metropolis he would surely have an even easier time finding poor deluded souls using the suchlike and easily available household chemicals to escape from their strait-laced British melancholia and yet believing that by so doing they were enjoying themselves.

If it weren't for the native language of these isles attracting the gaiety and spontanaiety of students from happier climes who come here to study it these islands would be full only of morose vitamin D deficient proles dying from bowel conditions as a result of the appalling indigenous dietary culture and working all the hours God sends in order to buy the vastly inflated accommodation in which they sleep between shifts at their own particular gravestones (sic - Ed).

I blame the weather.

Crispin Farqhar

Post by : Crispin Farqhar (webport-cl4-cache5.ilford.mdip.bt.net / )


___________________________

Yes well I wish

Yes well I wish they would sit quietly on the buses, especially in the mornings. To have Albanian shouted back and forth at a volume that betrays the speakers' lack of knowledge of the etiquette of quiet bus travel here is galling. If I were to go abroad (which I have no wish to do) I certainly wouldn't talk at the top of my voice on buses.

Post by : Marco (webport-cl4-cache5.ilford.mdip.bt.net / )


___________________________

Melancholia

Yes, it is a fact that melancholy has reached epidemic proportions in the years since 1945. This indicates that More does not necessarily ensure happiness. Then of course, as you mention, the weather is always a factor. Perhaps people do not belong on Earth at all.

Post by : Cheryl (cache-dp09.proxy.aol.com / )


___________________________

Comments 2003-2004 said...



Indeed

Indeed so, dear lady. A study of Norway in the late 70s and 1980's boom registered rising feelings of well-being as 'prosperity' increased but after a point well-being and prosperity (so-called - 'ease of access to material nonsense' would be a better description) parted company and as incomes rose so did suicides at all levels of society.

It does rather gall one when one continues to see deluded souls insist that there can be no poverty in our society since we all have video recorders. Well to that, madam, I would say that we are rich in video recorders and poor in much else that the human spirit requires.

Crispin Farqhar
Cruggs Pet Supplies
Willesden Green
(Local stockist of James Wellbeloved Lamb and Rice Kibble for Dogs)

Post by : Crispin Farqhar (webcacheh09b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

Praise Be!

Praise be to The Most High !

Gladys Abanjo (Mrs)
Trinity Road Baptists
(Local stockists of the Love Given To Those Who Embrace The Good Lord Over The Heathen - praise Be!)

Post by : Gladys Abanjo (Mrs) (webcacheh09b.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________

Spam?

If my sick sense thells me this bord is beeng used for spam I will step in it. Dont thikn I wotn. I did not come down the tames on the last lilly. cheers.

Post by : Ed. (host81-129-72-191.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )


___________________________

If

If I went to Norway (which I wouldn't want to do - after all there is everything here in good old England that the heart could desire) I certainly wouldn't commit suicide because of video recorders. And I wouldn't shout on the buses. I'd find a cosy English pub with Sky Sport and a nice pint of Watneys.

Post by : Marco (webcacheh04a.cache.pol.co.uk / )


___________________________



Ed. appears to have failed to count the pints he's had today. But with permission I would like to use the phrase "I did not come down the Thames on the last lily" if that's alright. It's so much more colourful a phrase than 'I wasn't born yesterday' and just as accurate.

Post by : Cheryl (cache-dp09.proxy.aol.com / ) Englsih (sic)


___________________________



chertinlgly me deerio, na wpromlbm

Post by : eD, (host81-129-72-191.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )



___________________________