Lately I have been doing a lot of this

It is feeling like small things take a long time, two hours bus transit yesterday, most of it at the stops, inhaling other peoples' cigarettes (why oh why can't they just stand still while smoking and not follow the bystander moving out of their way), three hours for a quick errand on Friday, most of it in the rain... sigh. If only my reading material wasn't equally depressing(see here http://www.quarterlyessay.com/ ).. a little flat this week.

saturday

it was cold and grey for most of saturday. chloe and alba stopped by in the morning and alba, not content with the rice pudding i had cooked that morning, tried a sample from my garden, most of which came back up again. phew. i ran into matt at the train station. he came and found me at the climate rally. both moments were nice. we hadn't seen much of each other lately. hard to believe in global warming when your toes are numb and your ears are burning from the cold. nevertheless it was a powerful thing to be claiming swanston street, sitting out the front of the town hall (labour party conference was happening inside), jangling keys and watching the fray -families and friends - feeling all in all like there is a growing momevement committed to real change and that it will start with us. or that it already has.

(image from friends of the earth)