Context
Mrs Nick has an interest in all things Latin American. She wanted to go to
Macy Machyn machnyll that part of Wales for a three day conference on Latin American indigenous peoples. They had some good speakers actually (from her point of view) including a couple of Ambassadors including the Carla Bruni lookalike Bolivian Ambassador to Paris
who is also a singer. Fair enough.
Unfortunately, like, the people who have an interest in the liberation or whatever of Latin American indians (not allowed to call them that) tend also to espouse various combinations of the following:
Green politics
Mung Bean eating
'Sustainability'
Home made clothing
Bikes
Drumming
Hair braiding
Patchouli oil
Wind power and organic tofu
Excessive smiling
Counter cultural music and poetry
They in turn attract other dispossessed groups including:
Hare Krishnas
Welsh and Iraqi Communists
Alternative healers
Wigwam dwellers
Face painters
Reflexologoists
Yurt manufacturers
Set the whole thing in
Macy Machyn machnyll that part of Wales which is populated by retired hippies and they all pile in and invite their witch and wizard pals who turn up with stripey clothing and dogs on strings. In this fandango 'inclusiveness' is all which accounts, I suppose, for the truly fearful Downs' Syndrome Accordion Group (with carers). Let us say they had little aptitude for the instrument and leave it at that
The town even has an Organic DIY shop FFS (
) and the rest of the shops major in:
Candles
Crystals
Knitted thingies
Beans in hessian sacks
Organic snacks
This accounts for the local butcher fighting back with his Vegetarian Meat notice.
Wenchy wouuld love it.
I spent almost all of the time curled up in an armchair rereading Stalingrad (
). The Boy went Free Range for three days with a load of other kids, had a great time and has now lost his voice
His altercation with the Hare Krishna Drummers is part of grwoing up.
Pastis summarises well. He failed to mention:
Bob the anarchist poet (
). Bob
suffers from depression
had a gf who left him on Wednesday
told everyone all about it at enormous length
made his own clothes (in military style
)
carried saucepans on a string round his waist.
See:
Yes the witches did cop off with the Iraqi communists and went to the roughest pub in
Macy Machyn machnyll that part of Wales where they were picked on by the local lads. A fight started (I watched from a safe distance) and the witches really put the boot in. I got to quite like the witches (they were funny) but they hated the Lesbian drummers on the grounds they were too 'aggressive' (
) which is true, cos they scared the shit out of me
.
The main organiser turned out to be a happy clappy (40s, patchwork suit, guitar, grin) who tried vainly to interest me in Jesus twice.
A couple of people approached me to enquire my 'affiliation'. I explained I represented the 'Libertarian, Atheist Carnivores' and they soon ran off. I think I was classified as a loony, which is quite an accolade in that context
.
So much more:
The solar powered cinema (BM please note)
A woman who talked ceaselessly about Fenner Brockway (look him up)
Razz the Tottenham Troubadour who looked like an escapee from a medieval circus
Too many harpists
Solas Amaru, Shamonic folk music and dance
The list goes on
Oh yes, the Moon Adoration Ceremony
Mrs Nick did all her Christmas shopping, so everyone is getting Andean hats and aprons this year, handmade by ancient crones. I am sure all will be thrilled
