.... random rants and rambles. no agenda. yet.

As I often say; hooray, hooray, IT'S FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDAY!!!! Thank F*** for that.

I don't know why but since I burned out and stopped organising demos all the time, I've looked forward to weekends far more. Probably cos I don't have to spend them working? Don't get me wrong, I so loved organising demos and doing the various other bits of activism I did... but it is also soooo nice to get the time to have a Proper Weekend; to go camping or faff around in the garden and read and walk the dog and go shopping and see mates and drink and chill out and other things that you are supposed to do simply because it's the weekend.

I keep telling myself I will get back to the demo business - and I definitely will - but right now I don't have the time at all, for various reasons. And because I am older and wiser, I spend my weekends As You Are Supposed To, which all helps me to stay nice and sane and sorted. Well, kind of anyway!

This weekend is definitely gonna be a Proper Weekend. For a start, it was raining like crazy yesterday but now that has all gone and has been replaced with sun that is getting hotter and hotter every five minutes. So we will definitely get a bit burnt, which is also what you're meant to do at the weekend. Also, the Preston Riversway Festival is on, about a minute's walk from our house, so we will probably have a look at it, in proper Proper Weekend-dom. (It was weird last year, with completely random things like a fun fair, car sales, music and er, a pretend medieval market. Yes.) Also, Latch is coming with his trailer to pick up rubbish and take it to the tip - if that isn't part of the Proper Weekend, I don't know what is!?

Anyway, Happy Proper Weekends, everybody - may the sun shine on your BBQs!!