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[bubosquared]

Am knackered. Cannot feel knees below the knees, and my back is agony.

Queed to get on march longer than I actually spent marching, and then, just as we start actually moving, they start showing U2 at Live 8 on the big screens. Bastards. Avoided sunburn, but whacked a few people in the head with my sign (if you see a belgian flag on TV reports, that'll be me, whoo!) and nearly tripped over a toddler half a dozen times. All in all, a fun-filled day. Now I need, in order, a shower, some food, a lie-down, and to clean my flat.

Amusingly, when I was typing in the LJ url, IE's autocomplete (I'm in an internet cafe) popped up with, among other things, time_and_chips. Ahahahaha!

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[much-reality.livejournal.com]

Two. Hours. Of. Queing in those two holding pod areas. Jeebus. Though we were right behind that Gorbals piper's band which was kind of cool... and we're all collapising in front of the TV and dying, now. >.>

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Gah,. You win at queing. So do you want to meet up today for lunch or a pint or something? I'm not up for much more than sitting down and drinking, but I'm good at talking and squeeing about live 8 and/or Live Aid. :D

My mobile's 07981754356 if you wanna text me or call me or something. :)

[much-reality.livejournal.com]

Aww. I just saw this- we set of for England at noon as everyone had work today. :(

But... you must get down south sometimes, no? My number is 07801287819, so if I head up North again soon or you down here we have to meet up and share LiveAid/8 love.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Awwww. :( Yes, we must! I'm sure I can arrange to come down South some time in November, once the Live 8 DVD is out, and we can have a Live Aid & Live 8 marathon. :D

[kaiberie.livejournal.com]

I saw the flag...I might even have a photo.

:) I'm having a rant about it on my other journal though, for reasons that will become obvious if you ever catch it.
I respect what people did, but I don't respect that people think its 'only a day' - and though I know that's not the intellignet ones involved, many people are taking that line. 'This day will change history'.
NO...sustained action has and will continue to change things. Its all we can do.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you on that. I went out today to make my voice heard, and because of more personal reasons I may or may not go into in a locked post at some point, but I know more needs to be done. Still, the fact that such an absolute mass of people showed up was hopeful. Especially since it was so cross-generational. I saw little old ladies wearing white MPH headbands and snickering at how silly they looked, and there were aging hippies, not-so-aging hippies, people my age, TONS of families with young children ... It does give me hope for the next generation, at least. :)

But yeah, sustained action is needed, and I think most people there did seem to get that, especially the younger crowd.

(Which, sadly, doesn't mean I'll be at Gleneagles, but that's mostly because that's looking like people may be a bit more squished together there, and nobody's going to be helped by me showing up and then having to be carried off with a panic attack. :/ )

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oh, and, if you could share the photo in any way, I would love you forever. :)

[kroki-refur.livejournal.com]

Gah. Two and a half hours of queuing, alleviated only by the presence of a half-decent samba band. Having had only about 2 hours sleep last night, I am currently in no fit state to do anything but collapse into bed. And thus, I'm reading my flist. Will I never learn?!

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

The music was fab, wasn't it? :D Did you see the bagpipe-player-in-kilt/bongo-players combo? Utterly bizarre, but cool! :D

[kroki-refur.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah, I did see them. Actually, it's not as bizarre as you might think -- I played djembe in an African percussion/bagpipe combo in a folk festival in Finland once. And the bagpiper was Belgian. And deaf. As was I, by the end. But I wasn't nearly as tight as those two guys -- they were wicked! Also, the all-woman samba band was totally amazing. Mmmm *grooves along to the memory*

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Bah, I didn't see the samba band, but I did get music pretty much the whole duration of thwe march as I made my way to the front(ish). Mmmm, drums.