Starbucks Creche With HighlyPriced AvailableWifi
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Starbucks Creche With Highly-Priced Available-Wifi, Chiswick High Road.
The morning beginning at Chez Bijou Minxie I…
II…
… and moving to Giraffe on the Chiswick High Road…
… for morning reading & breakfast, leaving the Minx at home for a pile of interviews.
Now in this Starbucks-with-wifi, albeit at a high price; but necessary e-furying is waiting, to catch up on arisings not-possible-to-address with a collapsed BT Broadband in Worcestershire.
13.15 Done. Driving ahead.
19.15 Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea.
Leaving Chiswick with the Minx at 13.45. Some 2.5 hours of difficult driving to Southend where Vampires Rock are rocking tonight.
A welcome coffee with T at the front of the venue…
A walk into the town centre…
… and along the front I…
II...
III...
IV...
… for an early supper…
Reflecting on Archbishop Rowan Williams’ appearance on BBCtv2’s Newsnight this past Tuesday evening. The Archbishop, head of the Church of England, was one of a team of commentators on the anniversary of the collapse of Lehmann Brothers. The Archbishop’s first comment mentioned a lack of repentance in those responsible for directing the financial operations that moved through sub-prime lending, credit derivatives and the bonus culture in financial institutions, that was all part of this testament to the forgettingness of notions such as the common good.
Archbishop Williams also had the final comment, in response to Jeremy Paxman’s question – why?
Original sin. The Archbishop continued: Humanity seems to have a taste for unreality (close paraphrase). Jeremy Paxman commented that this was a little heavy; and closed with the comment that perhaps original sin would be addressed in another Newsnight (I sense this is unlikely).
Original Sin is not a notion that can be easily addressed, with the accretions of centuries. Perhaps a taste for unreality is a term of words more easily available to contemporary consideration. Whatever feel we have for the maleficent consequences of the organ Kundabuffer, the Fall From Grace, or expulsion from the Garden of Eden & other mythic presentations of the idea that humanity is quite not as it might be, many of us (particularly those who borrow money from financial institutions rather than get paid by them) might find in the collapse of the banking system one example of a taste for unreality.
How to ensure there are no more avoidable disasters such as this? One radical answer: to develop a taste for the Real. This won’t be a subject for Newsnight anytime soon either.
19.55 The young Vamp dancers arrived 5 minutes ago for a 20.00 curtain, the horror of the M25 responsible. The M25, for those not familiar with the motorway system of the UK, is a large parking zone established all around Outer London to serve those who hope to visit Central London later in their lifetimes.
01.51 Chez Minx, Chiswick.
A fabbo show, well attended by an enthusiastic Southend audience…
A hard drive back to Chiswick along the North Circular; but a much better inward journey than the outgoing.
The alarm is set for 06.00; taxi call at 07.00.
