I have much I want to say, and not much time in which to put the words on the screen. Firstly, lets have a quick run down of what I did this weekend.
On Saturday the Dragon had a lunch appointment with a friend she hasn't seen for a while, so I was in charge of the boy. We did supermarket shopping, and went swimming, but possibly most exciting, we got him fitted out with a guitar. He has his first lesson today, Monday. We settled for a 3/4 sized instrument at a cost of £70, which was cheaper than I thought, and the nice man in the music shop even threw in a free plectrum. I told the boy if he gets good I'll buy him leather trousers. I found an iPad app that is really good for tuning it.
I was hoping to visit the allotment yesterday, but it was not to be. I ran out of time because we were sorting out the bomb-site that is/was the guest bedroom. We have now migrated all the remaining books which were stacked in there onto the new shelves downstairs. I think it's the first time in our tenancy when all the books have had a home.
In any case, I feel like I accomplished a lot this weekend.
Now, I want to talk about racism. Last week Jeremy Clarkson managed to make headlines again when a clip of him reciting a rhyme with the n-word in. It should be noted that he deliberately mumbled the word, but it sounded to some people, like he actually said it. I don't believe the clip was ever broadcast, and there is some evidence to suggest that Clarkson himself was actually concerned that he didn't mumble enough and asked for another take to be used.
I don't like Jeremy Clarkson. He's basically an immature oaf, who deliberately flirts with controversy just to get attention. It was pretty stupid to use that particular rhyme and I don't have a lot of sympathy for him, but I can't see how anyone can possibly be offended by it either. But there is more fallout from this. The BBC are clearly now sensitive about how this incident has affected their image and, possibly as a result, a BBC radio presenter has agreed to resign because he played a song with the same offensive word in it. Apart from the fact that the song in question was a recording from 82 years ago when the word was really not offensive, the guy claims he didn't even know the word was in there. Neither did I until today.
Just one more thing, as this is turning into Beowulf, I didn't watch the Eurovision Song Contest last night, but I see from the headlines this morning that it was won by a either a bloke in a dress, or a bearded lady, depending on your point of view. So, would it be politically incorrect to point out that the contestants have themselves actually turned the contest into a freak show, almost literally? It's perhaps also worth pointing out that anyone can do outrageous, talent is a little more difficult.
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