Dad we have an end of term Drama assessment tomorrow. It’s basically a spelling test. Have to learn words like Melodrama, Facial Expressions, Villains, Exaggeration, Storyline, heroic and conclusion. No wonder I‘m in the bottom set if they only judge kids on spelling.
The ironic thing is that the Dyslexic pupil is getting higher marks than many of the other kids in the test he is being set up to fail in. Plus I’ve said it before – isn’t Drama supposed to be about creativity. What’s creative about spelling Melodrama. Maybe the creativity is finding different ways to misspell words.
MELODRAMA – melonram, meltorama, melodyarm, mouldyfarm, mellowdram
The worlds a melodrama.
A world where a PM driving a forklift truck is deemed more newsworthy than young children spending hours on the floor of
underfunded hospital’s because no beds are available. How a PM can walk past a homeless man sleeping rough and SMILE. So many countries run by liars and self serving buffoons. How a teenager with Aspergers is vilified for standing up for the planet. How so many societies are descending into hatred and violence. Where it’s open season on minority groups.
Photo from Inside Croydon
On days like this part of me is relieved my partner is not hear to see this. To see what has become of our country, our world over the last three years. She would be devastated.
And then your see a beautiful sunset over a little church which has been around for hundreds of years. In those brief moments before the darkness falls you see hope and you see a reason to fight. If enough good people see this then the day of reckoning will soon come for those who abuse their power and abuse their position.
When that day comes the melodrama will centre on the facial expressions of the villains as they are brought to justice. It’s no exaggeration to say that will be a storyline which has taken far too long to come to his heroic conclusion.
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This went down a route I wasn’t expecting. Like many people in the UK we are going down with election cabin fever. Clinging to hope yet fearing the upcoming darkness which may befall our country tomorrow night.
All so true – including the glimmer of hope
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Always hope although my mood could be very dark on Friday.
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I am so sorry. Is that the anniversary of your loss?
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Not specifically but key celebrations are tough.
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Good luck. The photo is great! Sky drama!
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Thank you
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Keeping my fingers crossed
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Thank you. Let’s hope for a change in heart in a few million voters.
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Indeedy
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I wonder if he actually saw that homeless man with his dog.
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Sadly he saw him looking at the video. His aide definitely had a good look then smirked. Wouldn’t expect anything else from someone like him.
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Politicians disgust me and as for our leader? I’d vote for your gerbils.
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That would liven the place up. Bit of a mess of Number 10s wooden staircase.
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Thing is, they have a new cat…………….
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Oh
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I could supply the gerbils with flack jackets perhaps?????
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In white hopefully.
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🙂
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garry, you are so awesome your writing always leaves me breathless! 🙂 love to you and your son!
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That is so kind of you. I am really touched. Thank you. x
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I could understand having to know what they mean, but spelling? Who cares? Geez Louise, that’s frustrating. How could he just walk past that man and smile? Also frustrating. It is a beautiful sunset picture – that is nice. Not frustrating.
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Thank you Robyn. Know that feeling when you can feel your mood darkening rapidly. Need a big run tomorrow. Hope you get one as well.
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It’s a tough time for you. And for your country too.
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Probably going to get tougher for the country
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So sad! 🙏
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But today is another new start.
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Indeed. Each new day is new hope.
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It has to be or what is the point.
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Exactly. And everything that happens has a purpose too. Sometimes we just can’t see it.
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Just got to keep looking.
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Yes. 👍😎
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The photos were stunning – one for its beauty and hope, the other for its cruelty. The second one would have felled me had it not been for the first. We must cling to hope. Praying for Britain. Praying for you and your son.
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Thank you. The country needs all the help it can get.
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Fingers crossed that UK sees reason and shows US that enough is enough already!
If it isnt done soon at the ballot box, I’m afraid more drastic measures are in the future for both our countries and that’s just bad for everyone.
Yes, sunsets, flowers, trees… hope🙏
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Unfortunately we have a hard core of people wanting to make Britain great again. Does that sound familiar.
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Thinking of you all in the U.K. We’re getting ready to impeach our buffoon of a so-called president here in the U.S., but he probably won’t be removed from office. I hope you have a better outcome there.
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I fear we may need our own impeachment soon.
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I won’t be staying up.
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I’m avoiding it until the morning.
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I, too, cling onto the hope that the dawn of a better age starts tomorrow. However, it seems unlikely, going on the results of recent opinion polls.
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Feels more like wait for the first impeachment attempt.
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Sigh! Just woken up to news which means I might never listen to the news again😢
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I’ve just deleted all mainstream news sources for the next 5 years.
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I never had any but I will probably be listening to the radio a lot less!
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Me as well. Going to select my own news sources.
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Off at a tangent, a friend joked to me yesterday that I now come from Bluecar…. on the other hand, the Tory increase throughout the country was actually only 300,000 in comparison to 1 million+ increase for the Lib Dems. As far as I can see, that’s not the huge endorsement the number of seats suggest.
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It’s enough given the mad electoral system. The only way is for Labour and Liberals to start working together rather than fighting each other.
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A lot less fighting could only be a good thing!
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It really could be
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That is a gorgeous church picture, at least. In American they do an obnoxious amount of spelling tests, too. 😦
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We get our education ideas increasingly from the US rather than Europe.
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Well that’s terrifying.
Granted, the tales of British boarding schools (as portrayed by Michael Palin in RIPPING YARNS, of course) are the stuff of horror tales, surely, but…c’mon. You can’t get much lazier than the American education system.
NOT BASHING THE TEACHERS, to be clear. More like the philosophy of entitlement it fosters in students, basically setting them up to fail.
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Our government wants to go back to Victorian standrads
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The minute corsets come back into fashion there will be no denying it. 🙂
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Would need an extra strength vibranium corset to hold me in shape.
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HA! Me too!
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Surely not. My jumper shrunk in the wash last night. Our machine decided to ignore the wool setting and went for the nuke option. Anyway it’s like a corset now. x
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LOL! Well that would certainly make for some interesting conversation. 🙂
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First time I’ve been interesting in years.
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It needs a fundamental change which sadly is not going to happen.
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