The Friday E-Mail

As another week passes, another one begins, but the countdown for the end of the beginning has truly started.

Exams are beginning to roll out, even if they are mainly just the AS re-sits at the moment, I know the P3 albeit early was an A2 pig of an exam, but James’s history didn’t go too badly at all for him. I’m not too sure about any of the other though. The GCSE’s aren’t faring too badly, with the customary off-the-syllabus questions just to catch you out for the fun of it, but I haven’t heard too many horror stories about them. As for the AS’s, they’ve nearly finished, well have finished now unless you do further maths, so it’s back into full time school for you all on Monday! Yipee-I-A!!

It hasn’t been the most eventful week in the history of mankind though. As Live-8 was launched in style by Sir Bob Geldof, our Tony went off to America to discuss things with G W Bush, but got nowhere as America were in their more co-operative moods and changed none of their initial opinions and are choosing to ride things out in their own special way. And this is the most powerful country in the world! It spends ten times anywhere else in it’s military budget, and gives out the smallest fraction of that figure in aid to some of the more desperate corners – normally war-torn – or the world. What a fantastic world we live in! At long last though, the America public is slowly beginning to open it’s eyes to the rest of the world, there are now 5 continents in the world according to an American survey, and they’ve decided to turn against the Iraq war! It only took them a couple of years more than anyone else! Bless! It’s now 60-40 against the war ever taking place, as the body bags really do begin to pile up after ‘mission accomplished’ two years ago, and the constant assurance that, even though the insurgent’s attacks get ever more violent and bloody, the insurgency is beginning to break up. I just hope, with Blair and co. at the helm of the G-8 summit, we can get something done. But, it is only hope. I mean, we do have Bush to contend with here!

Closer to home though, as yet another cemetery gets vandalised by mindless, ruthless and respect-less, well, thugs (I suppose) in a racial attack, what is this country coming to. We’re supposed to be a tolerant, multi-racial society, yet we still have racist attacks, violent attacks and now desecration of the country’s graves! I’d love to know what’s going through their minds as they smash the graves to smithereens, hanging little teddies in nooses on a nearby tree and kicking up such a mess with absolutely sod all in way of explanation. I bet they’d say, ‘because it was funny, huh huh’ What went wrong, really?!?!

Still, as the state of the world gets me down, we’ve had some of the best weather of the year, and we’ve had to be inside revising for most of it! Oh joy! What a great life this is. Still, only three weeks of this left. That’s it, three weeks of exams, less for most people, so I wish you look, and expect to see you at my birthday party after them all on the 2nd of July. Apart from those who can’t come of course, but I know who you are! Still, good luck in the exams, and enjoy them!

I’ll leave it there now though, I think. Not a lot about the group, I know, but nothing much has happened at all. And, if you’d like to have your say about what has happened and deserved a mention, then reply to this very post on the Friday E-Mail website before it gets terminated in the not so distant future at the moment!

See you all soon, no doubt!

Ta taa for now

Paul