A Quiet sad corner

[smashedinductionhob]

That's all. Pop over and sit down quietly if you like.

I can recommend The Better Angels of our Nature by Stephen Pinker.

It''s Hundreds of pages of statistical evidence that the Enlightenment project is not in fact dead, but grows ever stronger.

More fun than it sounds.

Violence is, despite what we think we see, reducing all the time.

On that note I shall go to bed.

Oh just started reading stuffication. Hoping it will enlighten me.

Actually a bit pissed off about tomorrow. But won't let the muverfuckers get me down

Sleep tight. Sweet dreams

Comes in and draws up a chair. IRL in bed knowing I need to get up. wish I could go to bed and wake up in a few years when it's all sorted however badly. I can't emigrate, no skills that would let me work in EU.
Just sad

Today I will mostly be wearing black.

I will have to contend with navy, but will wear my euro beany - blue with 12 yellow stars, made specially for last Saturday's demo.

I'm reading Galileo's Finger by Peter Atkins, it's about 10 great ideas/discoveries in science (evolution, DNA, etc.), and basically a celebration of scientific method and rational thought. I'm not a scientist, but it's very accessible and well written, and really engaging in how he describes how the discoveries were made (sometimes through pure chance). It starts with evolution, then goes more detailed/deeper into the meaning of science, ending with mathematics!

That plus listening to good music, and staying away from the news is what I'm doing today (plus trying to work, sigh!).

I thought about wearing black, or blue and yellow, but decided on bright colours instead!

I am wearing black.

I am reading A country of mothers by AM Homes. She is fantastic as always.

A nice thing this morning.

A few years ago, in heated Badders-style indignation, I left what was (in hindsight) a terribly rude message on the answerphone of a stranger, the lady who organises the local music festival, complaining that it clashed with SATS week and excluded the state schools.....

Five years later, she has left the competitive festival to work alongside me on an alternative non-competitive festival. This morning she is taking me to meet a rich bloke who migh give the schools some money to support our work in our respective schools (it turned out she had quietly been delivering singing lessons in an inner city school for years....).

There are few things better than being pleasantly surprised by people I think.

Hope rich bloke coughs up.

Feel totally bereft today

[Rocks back and forth in dark corner.]

I have woken and decided after heated social media exchanges with members of my local momentum/labour party to join the lib dems and actively campaign for them against labour

It's going to take time to adjust after 40 years supporting labour. Brexit and their view of democracy and complete complacency is the last straw

Good by red. Hello yellow

Peregrina I saw a group of women with those lovely berets at the march. Maybe one of them was you!

Didn't think about clothes regarding EU today. Just get on, see if I can make a difference to others today, and then myself if I get myself to the gym.

That's a tough decision poor boy.

We'd better put the kettle on.

I accidentally ordered a giant pack of tea bags so we can use those

I have been taking a bit of pleasure it putting together the supporting documents for my application (get them sent off via the registry office on Monday). Decided to use my cervical smear reminder letter as proof of address (doubly funny as an EU SAHM using the NHS), and DH has written a very lawyery covering letter for me, invoking human rights.

The weather here is suitably glum for this day.

Whole family down with norovirus but I'm still here!!!
Keep up the tea drinking and righteous indignation!

Smashed I love Pinker's Better Angels too. And The Blank Slate.

Weather here in London is glum and grey too.

I feel more emotional than I expected to. Not nearly as volatile as I was for the first few weeks after the vote, but I do feel, as then, that I could burst into tears at the slightest provocation.

This picture.

I think I feel more crap about this than I might had my MIL not voted Leave. Both of her children-in-law are EU nationals. She thinks DH and I are being histrionic when we talk about maybe moving to NZ.

"Decided to use my cervical smear reminder letter as proof of address..."

:)

hope you are ok poorboy

I really feel for Labour supporters - it's like another bloody loss isn't it?