Yay I'm home

Well I survived the family chrimble and I am now home. The drive back up North was not at all bad as it seems that many people decided not to drive. Bristol to Leeds took four hours.

The first two days weren't too bad but even in my parents' pretty large house having seven people there was claustrophobic and as time went on I became more and more insecure and stressed. By the end of the visit I wanted to run away. It didn't help that the whole time was planned out in detail and any variation from the plan was frowned upon. so there was no chance of me going out to watch the sun rise on the solstice.

Well I am back now and nearly all of the present giving thing is done so all that's left is to watch excessive amounts of teevee, drink too much and binge on turkey and stuffing. And, as I am not cooking tomorrow I can relax.

The Moral Maze - Paganism

BBC4's the moral maze is currently looking at Christmas and Paganism.

They are currently talking to, or interogating if you will, the leader of the British Druids and she's already rubbing me up the wrong way. She's a radical vegan and her comment that "nearly all pagans are vegetarian" is making me think "How dare you speak for me!".

I am pagan and I eat meat. I respect nature and recognise our place in nature but also recognise the food chain and the circle of life and see no problem with farming and killing animals for use as food provided it is done in a 'humane' way.

And now they have a representative of the Christian Alliance and what a bunch of funda-nazis they are!

I've never heard this program before and it seems that they have gone and picked the most radical of interviewees to make the program interesting and as a result they have made it valueless. If they had gone and got some more moderate people then it might have been interesting.