Back
home in New Zealand it has been an interesting day for our son.
His
biggest sister dropped him at the airport in the wee small hours and by now he
will be well on his way to our side of the world via Sydney and Dubai. It will
be great to see him.
I
meant to write a bit more about our visit to Croydon on Saturday.
We
went there by bus, and when we were almost there we heard the sounds of an
approaching siren, well more that one by the sound of it.
Then
as we watched, one, two, three, four, five, six, then seven police vans full of
officers screamed past.
Hmm
we thought that does not look good.
Well
at least they had turned left while we continued straight on.
When
we got off at Croydon there were little clusters policemen everywhere we
looked.
That
definitely doesn’t look good.
So we
approached one of the uniformed men and asked it we would be better off turning
around and retracing our steps.
‘No’
he said ‘You’ll be fine we were just here for a protest tht was on earlier, but
that’s all cleared now.’
Two
people were arrested at a demonstration by right-wing group the English
Volunteer Force (EVF) yesterday. The group were protesting outside the UK
Border Agency's Lunar House headquarters in Wellesley Road, Croydon. The EVF
are campaigning against what they call 'Islamification and mass immigration'
affecting the UK. They have welcomed 'all patriots' to join an event, which has
already been targeted for a counter-march by Unite Against Fascism.
Also once inside the museum and we’d had a wander around
and a look at the artifacts we sat down and watched several old silent movies. I
was sure I could hear the music to them insider my head.
They were short films locally made and all with a very
similar theme.
The main villain of the piece causes offense to
another character.
This second character gives chase. In his efforts
to run away the villain trips over somebody knocking their parcels flying, that
second person joins in the chase.
This scenario is repeated until there are up to six
to seven people chasing the villain.
Said
villain is ultimately caught, beat up and sent on his way
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