Three things
A very Happy Birthday to the Communist who is 83 today. Most of his Communist friends have lived to a ripe old age too. Perhaps it's having something you believe in passionately that keeps you going.
On a more mundane note, here's my favourite bad joke of the moment:
What has a hundred legs and no teeth?
- The front row of a Cliff Richard concert.
So, having neatly linked old age and celebrities, I come back briefly to Robbie Williams, who is in Milton Keynes tonight, I hear.
When Robbie was in Leeds last week eleven schools had to close for the day because nobody could get to them.
Emily's school, which is very near to Roundhay Park where the concerts were taking place, had the bright idea of hiring out its car park to Robbie fans at £5 a car. The fans had paid £125 each for tickets so I suppose an extra fiver wasn't much.
The school made £5000 which apparently they are going to use for trips for disadvantaged children.
So the school is to be admired for its bright idea: but there's something about it that I don't like and I am finding it hard to work out exactly what.
On a more mundane note, here's my favourite bad joke of the moment:
What has a hundred legs and no teeth?
- The front row of a Cliff Richard concert.
So, having neatly linked old age and celebrities, I come back briefly to Robbie Williams, who is in Milton Keynes tonight, I hear.
When Robbie was in Leeds last week eleven schools had to close for the day because nobody could get to them.
Emily's school, which is very near to Roundhay Park where the concerts were taking place, had the bright idea of hiring out its car park to Robbie fans at £5 a car. The fans had paid £125 each for tickets so I suppose an extra fiver wasn't much.
The school made £5000 which apparently they are going to use for trips for disadvantaged children.
So the school is to be admired for its bright idea: but there's something about it that I don't like and I am finding it hard to work out exactly what.
posted by Daphne at 5:26 pm
3 Comments:
The school has given someone ammunition to argue that Robbie Williams and closing 11 schools is actually *beneficial* to the area and particularly to the most disadvantaged group therein, (a) meaning more Robbie, and (b) meaning that the people who ought to can do less for the disadvantaged now.
You can hear him from Milton Keynes?
sorry
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