Not back to blogging....

I'm just really clogged with ideas. So much is going on or has gone on and there never seems enough time to rant on to someone about it, dare i say it is safe enough to resume blogging? Or at least think it? Let them not say i didn't try.....

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A lot has happened since i last blogged which i will not go into but how can one not reflect on the excellent weather of the weekend just gone past? Sunny skies and calm cool tempratures make weekends what they should be. It also turned out that Wales played Scotland in my back yard (i live right next to the millenium stadium in cardiff) and found myself in the thick of things. Of course Wales won which suggests either a winning streak to come or extended luck to the detriment of all. On the subject of the thickness of things, it never ceases to amaze me how confident the butchest men can be wearing skirts...pardon me, kilts whilst swigging beer and squeezing their man boobs. Perhaps one has to be scottish to understand these things....

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Britain on the other hand is going through another winging storm but then again, one has to ask, does the winging ever end. Now it is about taxing non-dom's and most loudly, an angry reaction to the speech give by Archbishop Dr Rowan Williams on sharia law in the UK. Arguments on what the man actually said asides, perhaps the British media in the rare moment of reflection will perhaps see how biased it can be, bearing in mind the lack of objectivity in its coverage of the issue. I laughed out loud as the Beeb reported on the topic, showing background images of women in Burkas on the streets of birmingham, floggings in Kano and shootings in Afghanistan....i wonder if there was a subtext to those images....

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Talking about Kano and by extension Nigeria, George Soros has expressed interest in the Niger Delta. One cannot but ask why however foolish this may sound. Of what impact will economic advice do in the delta? or in the words of the locals, wetin concine crayfish and angle ninety?

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Not necessarily based on issues like the above but i decided to stay on in the UK for a few more years before moving back to Naija and so the job hunt has begun in earnest. I'll admit, it is very difficult considering one has to combine the strain of uni work as well as paid work but the benefits of an organised system of this nature where the job is confirmed before you graduate is brilliant. Works for everyone. Employers can plan a workforce, graduates are guaranteed a place and so make use of their last free summer whilst the economy as a whole benefits because there is no lost time for a potential contributor to the work force. Perhaps the NYSC people are listening. Still, the immigrant (abi?) it must be pointed out has a vastly different experience in such matters. Actually, the immigrant has a vastly different experience in pretty much every issue, wonder what will happen to this poor sod....

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Sean had a fortnum and Mason hamper delivered recently with the best hams, cheeses and salmon. Went simmingly with the 30 year old port that came with it. Reminds me of a post i read recently on Naijablog on class and difference in Nigeria. Whilst i have definite opinions on that, it is very clear however, that class and difference is very evident in British society from the schools you go to, the newspapers you read to where you get your hampers from.....

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And more subtle references on the salubrious leanings of a student, i am off to London this week and it should be one of drinks, good food and theatre as i have gotten seats for the phantom of the opera. Only thing is my main business in London is a visit to the Nigerian High commision. An awful start or a beautiful finish? I shll know when i get back!!!