Big Meeting; Big Lunch
Jul. 16th, 2019 09:58 pmDurham Miners' Gala 2005: my first, and probably most detailed, post on this subject.
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It's been a Big Weekend: the Miners' Gala, also known as the Big Meeting, on Saturday, followed by Sunday's Big Lunch, organised by neighbours one street over, and attended by people from our very local neighbourhood. I was surprised, on Sunday, at the extent to which people - whom I didn't know well, and with whom I thought I was making small talk - regarded the Gala as 'not for us', even 'to be avoided at all costs'. Even in years when political differences can be a bit prickly, I'd hate to miss the brass bands and the banners:
It's an opportunity to show off my deficiencies as a street photographer: this should have been a perfect juxtaposition of the portrait of Ellen Wilkinson with the baby in the pushchair (matching shades of blue courtesy of education union NAS/UWT): The past we inherit, the future we build. Instead two additional heads intrude into the composition - children, admittedly, and therefore on-theme, but not part of my plan. Still, the dominance of royal blue, not to mention the noise of folded paper clappers (and a few plastic ones left over from previous years, before plastic was widely seen as Evil) told us we were nearing NAS/UWT Central, and we caught up with![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
samarcand and family for the briefest of hugs and greetings...
( More photographs, and other things )
That was it, really. Here's the best report I could find of Jeremy Corbyn's speech. Looking for that, I also found this, which really isn't helpful.
Tagged posts (a work in progress)
It's been a Big Weekend: the Miners' Gala, also known as the Big Meeting, on Saturday, followed by Sunday's Big Lunch, organised by neighbours one street over, and attended by people from our very local neighbourhood. I was surprised, on Sunday, at the extent to which people - whom I didn't know well, and with whom I thought I was making small talk - regarded the Gala as 'not for us', even 'to be avoided at all costs'. Even in years when political differences can be a bit prickly, I'd hate to miss the brass bands and the banners:
It's an opportunity to show off my deficiencies as a street photographer: this should have been a perfect juxtaposition of the portrait of Ellen Wilkinson with the baby in the pushchair (matching shades of blue courtesy of education union NAS/UWT): The past we inherit, the future we build. Instead two additional heads intrude into the composition - children, admittedly, and therefore on-theme, but not part of my plan. Still, the dominance of royal blue, not to mention the noise of folded paper clappers (and a few plastic ones left over from previous years, before plastic was widely seen as Evil) told us we were nearing NAS/UWT Central, and we caught up with
samarcand and family for the briefest of hugs and greetings...( More photographs, and other things )
That was it, really. Here's the best report I could find of Jeremy Corbyn's speech. Looking for that, I also found this, which really isn't helpful.
