Quite possibly the most worthwhile 37 minutes of YouTube I’ve seen.
Watch: Barak Obama’s speech ‘A More Perfect Union’.
If someone this intelligent and balanced, and - it seems to me - downright good, can become the President of America then something amazing will have happened.
I don’t have a vote there, but I can still hope…
Disclaimer: Yes, it’s a home-made YouTube ‘embedded link’ screenshot; I still haven’t fixed the bug with this blog template which brakes YouTube videos. Terrible inconsistency, bad usability yesyes… all those things.
I’ve been away from Aberystwyth for a week. With about 50 other student type people I went to spend time with a church in Hyson Green, Nottingham. There is a small (about 20 people I think) pentecostal (amen, yeah! testify…) church there who are passionate, passionate people. They are commited to their community and to building the Kingdom of God there. Us white (yes, every single one of us), privilaged (university students) people got to let some of that rub off on us. We did some stuff they wanted doing too.
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Unless there is something I don’t know about, I am not called Mr Jones, and nor do I live in Anytown.
This was included in an envelope which also had my account statement in, so that showed the correct name and address through the envelope window.
Thanks for the reminder, Nationwide - I do mean to put my savings into an ISA this year, but it’ll be with the Co-op bank, as they are already in a Co-op account, and they sent me a similar reminder last month. And they didn’t call me Mr Jones.
Let the leeks be plentiful, the daffodils be bright and may impractical double-bowled lovespoons be given to any who wants them. That’s right, it’s Saint David’s Day (Wales’ national day, in case you hadn’t guessed.).
There will be a Welsh Old Lady fun run on the prom here in Aberystwyth at noon.
And also Happy Birthday, or Penblwydd Hapus, to Tim, Dave and Steffan, all of whom have the delight of being born on the 1st of March.
Google have also go in on the celebration on their UK homepage…
