Q. How impressive is my photograph of Big Ben?
A. Not very.
However, I have a number of excuses. These are as follows:
1. I didn't actually take the photo - My friend did
2. We were on a coach
3. The coach was moving
4. It was a bit of a manic moment - We were passing it pretty quickly
And finally:
5. It's a 5 mega pixel camera
This, as you may have guessed, was my trip to London.
Now, let me explain why I was in London:
In English Lit we've been studying Othello. Othello just happens to be on at Trafalgar Studios at the moment so we (we being... Well, a lot of people) went to go and see it. Incredible. That's all I can say.... You cannot (and I am now sure of this) appreciate a Shakespearean play by reading it in a classroom. You need to see it performed to fully understand just how ingenious the writing is. It was not just the play that was brilliant though - Without the actors with their sheer brilliance and understanding of their lines, it would not have been complete. I wish I'd bought a programme so that I could mention each individually, but unfortunately I didn't buy one and so I can't. One actor from it that I do know the name of though (and I pity anyone who doesn't know this name) is Lenny Henry. He was pretty brilliant really, I thought I wouldn't be able to take him seriously, but from the moment he stepped onto the stage I forgot he was ever a comedian and instead he was (because he is real, he is...) Othello.
I was watching The One Show the other day.... Oh, how it annoyed me. Eating less meat can cut CO2 emissions? Ok, fair enough. But what was the point in telling us? Why don't we just cut out all the real problems out before we start worrying about the number of cows? Why don't we start with smaller things and then work our way up.... Why is Nick Griffin at the Cobenhagen climate talks exactly? The man doesn't believe in climate change (despite there
being increasing evidence) and he's just generally.... Eugh. He irritates me. Really does.
Alright... Rant over, will be posting more often from now on... Well... I'll try to.
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