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Another busy weekend zooms past, although quite pleasantly. The Brownie talent show went quite well in the end. Some of it was 7 year olds playing the violin, but some of it wasn't bad at all and we collected some money. Bless them. After that, I dashed home so that we could head straight out to Paul's dinner which turned out to be nice and relaxing - just what I needed.

Saturday, it was up early (boo!) to go and get First Aid trained. Not only can I recusitate Brownies now but I qualify as an appointed person under the health and safty act, which is nice. After that Alex and I wandered over to the Red Star Noodle Bar with Damian before heading off to see the burlesque show at the Zodiac. Mostly just stripping, I'm sad to report - no variety or anything. After that it was Gloom, wine and kittens at Jeremys before heading home for bed.

Sunday I finally got a lie in (thank God!) and was then filled with the hum of domesticity - I got the hoovering and the washing done and Alex helped me with an enormous shop. I also fiddled around with my settings on weightwatchers.co.uk and so I'm feeling more cheerful/positive about that stuff again. Tonight is roleplaying and I've saved up enough points for a bottle of wine so I should be fine.

Political

I was the most depressed I've been about politics for a long time this weekend. It's not just that the government has managed to steam-roll a terrible illiberal piece of legislation through. That's bad enough but I'm used to it by now. It was the ridiculous behaviour of Blair, Howard and their respective cabinets in the immediate aftermath.

I thought that Peter Hain's claim that the Lib Dems were offering constructive critism while the Conservatives were just opposing for the sake of it was going to be the most ridiculous thing when I heard it that morning but oh no. Apparently, he went on to call Howard a mongrel (I missed that bit) and on the evening news Margaret Beckett said in so many words that Howard had deliberately put the nations security at risk to score political points.

Predictably and justifiably extremely pissed off by all this, the Tories degenerated into namecalling too, although not nearly so badly and the whole thing just felt ridiculous. The LibDems came out best, possibly because they just kept their mouths shut.

It's just so disappointing to have real life turn out more ridiculous than cynism.