I woke up this morning with Mic Christopher in my head, which makes a change from Adele’s Rolling in the Deep that I seem to wake up every day lost in. It’s an amazing song, but I’m a little relieved to have replaced it because it’s so intense – it’s like being lost in huge wave and swept away (free association: my mother was once swept off the rocks in California by a huge wave, tossed around and thrown back up again, bleeding from hundreds of tiny cuts from being scraped on the rock, but otherwise unharmed and undrowned. Here’s to being swallowed and spat back out again).
I talked about politics with my grandmother last night – at 92 she’d got herself brought out to vote, despite the fact that it was a pain for her, and not to vote Fianna Fail. I was impressed that she went, and she said oh, she always voted, always – women tied themselves to railings so that she could vote and she wasn’t going to let them down by being lazy about it. I told her of my principled friend who ended a friendship because the person in question didn’t vote, and he couldn’t be friends with someone so irresponsible, and she said that she could see where he was coming from ;)
Actually, Axel’s little Tiger cub friendies never voted before, but went out and did it for the first time this time, which hopefully will set a precedent. We do have civic education in school now, but I think the voting bit needs to be hammered home more. That and breastfeeding J
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Fair play to your granny..I, too have very little time for people who cant be bothered to go out and vote..I brought the kids with me and explained the whole process..Hugh asked what would happen if his name accidently got caught up in the ballot box and he got voted in 'in charge of the government'..a great conversation on the way home on all the things he'd change if he was the 'ruler'..starting with giving all the poor people half of the rich people's money..the kid could have something there !!:))
Hee, that's great, Catherine. I love the idea of getting elected by accident. I feel the same nervousness about auctions.
Yay, Granny!
yay women tied themselves to railings!
boing, boing, boing.
adele is an amazing voice; check out my fave voice Nina Nastasia singing about geeting swallowed by the sea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0mXOaAfFuw
I agree! I make a huge deal about voting. I volunteer to help out at the voting booths, I give lectures to the children about the importance of voting from the age of one, I take them into the booth to vote with me. It's hugely important. And breastfeeding is just heavenly.
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