Jubilee Jollies

As part of my duties I have been reluctantly swept along with the furore and spent the last several shifts at work and at home being manipulated to construct huge gargantuan and grotesque figures for carnival floats and parades. If I see another pot of PVA or a red white and blue boater I am sure to lose it. Sorry to be a miserable sod but I object to paying for twenty quid's worth of fur material to make and stuff a lifesize corgi on wheels! Brownies are at it too with my daughter commissioned to make one hundred napkin rings for a streetparty. The clients enjoyed a full moon the other night in a riot of ribbon and sticky substances, if you pardon the expression.

I have to indulge my clients and daughter because they are having fun but basically all this pomp gives me the hump. I work for the establishment but they aint gonna break my will, Godammit! It's a paradox when I have to attend long training sessions to ensure that I uphold anti-discriminatory practice and then I get a memo to organise a celebration for a very class-driven and exclusive set of values that contradict all 'we' stand for! I spent most of my spare time yesterday trying to beg people from school to school to raise money for another bunch of sick ruskie kids to come over again this Summer and for them find it in their hearts to give just a little bit of hope to poverty stricken dying children and its like trying to get blood out of a stone. They would rather spend their time and money on arranging pageantry for the glory of the over-privileged who already have everything money could buy! Have I got it wrong? One school bursar said that "we already have our children involved with jubilee celebrations as their number one priority" I said that it was a shame the Queen could not host a few Belarussian kids as a gesture for her subjects. It would get me buying a union jack! .... I have one host lady, a single Mum, three kids, works full time, and she is sleeping on the floor of one of her kids rooms so she can host a child for a month. You see, her 'number one priority' was to give up her bed for a child who needs her help.

Yes, I know it's just a bit of fun. I am sure it is all about coming together as a community to have one thing in common. It's not a conspiracy by the media and the government as a public relations exercise to rekindle some credibility in a family that is supposed to set an example and yet represent our nation with just about the worst track record!

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