Okay, so I was running around doing errands before the big classic car show (“The Holy Rollers are coming, aiyeee, et cetera”) at Holy Moly tomorrow, and I passed this sign. Now, previously we’ve always been focused on pledges and budgets and can we afford this and that and “we’ve always done it this way” each year, and not really doing much to actually HELP people less fortunate than ourselves. Because to put it baldly, compared with some of the people and charities we’ve been talking about supporting, we’re rolling in dough. Yes, comparatively, and that’s in a year where…
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London Pride Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57. Last night I enjoyed a tasty glass of Fuller’s London Pride, as planned, and then photographed it and uploaded it to Flickr. Then this morning I was listening to a radio essay by Scott Simon on NPR called “The Resilience of London — and Londoners.” It was one of Simon’s best ever, right up there with his dispatches from Sarajevo. The piece ended with an old song by Noel Coward called “London Pride.” It was scratchy sounding and creaky in the joints, but it had something to say about the strength Londoners found to…