I Ask:

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY RIGHT NOW?!
We’ve had torrential rain for the last few nights, accompanied with frightening thunder and lightning – and all on the media they’ve said because of global warning and this years drought, blah, blah, blah – we ALL should change our gardens to save water, as in rip up all our existing grass and plants and plant a new shingle/Zen type place for ‘better’ water management. “Did you know that London has less rainfall than Madrid, Rome or even Dallas?” Asks the ‘London Wildlife Trusts’, well, yes, as Madrid, Rome and even Dallas have a warmer climate then us; if it asked “Did you know that London has less rainfall then Moscow, Vienna and Toronto?” Then I WOULD be worried! I picked up a leaflet and these two things it said shocked the living daylights out of me:

‘Make a DIFFERENCE by pledging to do one of the following:

I will choose low water or drought tolerant plants that encourage wildlife.

And then another way of putting it:

Ten gardening tips to save water and help wildlife:

3. Choose low water or drought resistant plants that encourage wildlife.

Of course they do give sound advice on other aspects but this is NOT ON!

Basically they are telling you to rip up your existing garden – destroying your already beneficial wildlife habitats to create a dead/unliving piece of landscaped garden shit. You know, the ones with palm trees, bonsai trees, fountains and blasted shingle!

WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE IS THAT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS?

My Dad has been SO outraged by the entire thing that he phoned the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) to have it out with them and he got this silly, brainless girl who hadn’t a CLUE what he was talking about, even though it has been a news item on TV and in the papers for the last 2 months – where has everyone been, on MARS?! The mentality of some people is unbelievable, why do they walk with blinkers on through life? Ok, I do to some extent, but least I know what’s going on in the world and can have my say, others are so wrapped up in their own little pathetic, meaningless lives that nothing and I mean NOTHING moves them.

Ok. Another rant.

Steve Irwin.

Ok, the man is dead and I agree fully with Germaine Greer and PETA. Firstly I’d like to say that I don’t have much time for Ms Greer, or is it Mrs? But what she said was pretty close., she said that ‘his death after a stingray’s barb pierced his chest was the animal world taking revenge’ describing him as an ‘animal tormentor’, three cheers for Greer – of course he was! So you’re a Australian crocodile, minding your own business, swimming freely in your vast territory when this git extraordinaire suddenly jumps down on you from no where, into the water, disturbing your peace, disturbing your life, just to get you on camera for some dangerous animal documentary for the human world to see – this man WAS a nutter. PETA taking one step further and has brandished him ‘a cheap reality TV star’ Read full article here. But it doesn’t end there. Steve Irwin was a ‘star’ in his own country and in the US and the countries have been going mad, pouring out their grief in some ‘Princess Diana-style floral memorial’ (couldn’t have said it better myself Greer) and the people are baying for the sting rays blood who killed him, so over the last few days 10 sting rays have been found dead, washed up on beaches, with their tails cut off. That went against everything Mr Irwin believed in, I realise he was ‘some sort’ of conversationalist but he just went about it in a very stupid way. As PETA have stated (you really don’t have to read the full article now!), “He made his career out of antagonising frightened wild animals, that’s a very dangerous message to send to children”. And don’t forget the stunt he pulled in front of tourists visiting his family’s famous Australian zoo, his son in one arm and food in the other waving to a GIANT alligator – it’s the whole Michael Jackson thing, dangling his baby son over the railings. Bloody hell!

Click here for PETA article via 'Helping Animals'

Ok, I can’t go on, that’s really exhausted me, SO MUCH TO COMPLAIN ABOUT!

So I went back to KIAD today to retrieve my TV I loaned to Laury, believe me, that’s the LAST they’ll be seeing me there for a LONG TIME. And then over to Shirley’s to make the last arrangements for my show. Her flat looks AMAZING by the way, not only my paintings but also something else. Tomorrow she’ll be having a wedding reception at her flat and the flower arrangers had been and made it amazing, oh and one more thing, this is not only any old wedding reception, this is a gay wedding reception, so the balloons are pink and the cake too! Hope they feel like buying a souvenir . . . like a painting!

Pictures and everything tomorrow. I’m so tired now. Just waiting for more thunder to come. Love this weather.

Emy xxx