Our Zany Weekend

We have had a fun weekend.

We are going to Strasbourg from the 3rd - 5th April to the NATO 60th Anniversary "celebrations" and we will be at the Peace camp, civil disobedience, counter summit & demonstration. The slogan is "yes, we can" reminiscent of a certain President just elected, who used it as his slogan and it is his administration who are sending another 17,000 troops to Afghanistan and have bombed Pakiatan every day since his inauguration, so I am not entirely comfortable with it, although they might come up with a perfectly reasonable explanation, I feel he just disguises it better then the previous enumbent.

So exciting times. on Saturday 8 (3 under 16) of us turned up at Museum of Science and Industry(MOSI) as the Zionist Federation are holing an Israeli Science Day and we feel that a celebration of the sort of science that has been used agains the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza should not be celebrated when the schools and universities in Gaza have been destroyed. Chris and I arrived first and there were two policeman stood there and who came up and stood near us, then the others all arrived together and we were just sorting out the petition and the leafletsm when the policeman asked to see one. I showed it to him and he said fine and I asked if he wanted to see the note on the back and he said "No, I read that on the website!; followed by the Director of the Museum coming out and talking to us (bought us a coffee) and then someone came up and expressed surprise at seeing him as he doesn't work Saturdays! So a result, and they are aware there will be a demonstration on the 3rd March, which I will go to after work and Chris will be there from 2pm.

Anyway, we were buzzing a bit from that and we went off on our way home via Stockport to see a friend and go shopping. The trains are every hour so we saw ourfriend and then went off to Sainsbury's and got what we wanted (although a very funny moment when my name was announced as I had left the shopping trolley in an aisle!) and walked up to the train station. It was a bit cold on the platform and we went into the Waiting Room and were chatting and saw a train - it was ours, pulling away from the platform! So a walk up his cousin's for a cup of tea and back down to the station, where our train was delayed for 15 mins! So we finally got home at 9pm after leaving the house at 1pm

We laugh so much together and it is coming up to our first wedding anniversary (so I am hoping to buy him a guitar as he doesn't have one, the one he played on our song was borrowed) next month - a year and 17 months in total!