So here's my bit about me My name is Rebecca, I'm 23, and to summarise my life, I have kids and I love music! In a bit more detail though, I have three beautiful children, the eldest is 3 in a few weeks, the youngest is 5 months, so pretty much they are my life. In my previous life (before mummydom) I worked in a music shop, and it was the best job EVER! I absolutely love music, I play the piano, and dabble on the guitar viola/violin and a handful of other instruments. Music is like my fuel for life, I don't feel alive if I don't have music around me in one form or another through the day. I am also a pagan (if I have to choose a specific label) I love the earth and nature, and I try and do as many things in life as nature intended. I love learning about things, studying the science of things, and love finding out that the conclusion of scientific investigation is that natures ways are best. Um, what else? My children have just started a game of throwing themselves off of the settee, so I think I better go and intervene!!
I like Christmas. Not so much about presents, but about togetherness and Irish sherry. Don't see myself as a pagan though. I am 25. The same age as channel four. Hello
I really love Led Zeppelin, I tried to get tickets to their gig, but they're like rocking horse crap (hard to come by). I really like that sort of old rock, when guitar solos were as popular as the singing, what happened there? But a pretty eclectic taste all around, Mozart and Marilyn Manson are both sitting on my cd shelf (now there's an amusing image!)
Hello Rebecca nice to meet you Are you a political person? How would you characterise your political philosophy?
Not at all really. Political philosophy? Absolutely none. Politics are just too confusing for me to understand
That's an interesting statement. But I suspect there's more behind it than meets the eye. Questions of daily existence are often the beginning of political questions, even if not explicitly stated. Do you intend to educate your children privately or in state schools? When you fill up your car, what are your thoughts on the price of fuel? If you pin a poppy to your lapel or choose not to, why do you make these choices? These are all the beginnings of political questions and the smallest threads to a larger tapestry of political philosophy. They're also, not at all coincidentally, my first questions to you....
Ok, you're right, I do have political thoughts, although I have never thought of them as that. My children will go to school with all the other kids in state school, I think it's important for them to mix with the environment of people they are gonna experience life with. But I will teach them things also, I believe kids have capacity to learn so much more than typical 'kid' things. Same as everyone - you can learn from every place and environment you are in, if you choose to. I never really think about the cost of fuel, of course I notice the price when it rises, but there's part of me that thinks it's good that fuel becomes expensive, so we are all encouraged to find and use alternatives. Although I do wonder if the government are holding back funding on those sorts of technologies, as there's less tax to be had from them. Ok, that does sound quite political! I didn't wear a poppy this year, although I bought one I forgot to put it on. Why did I buy it? I suppose just because it's one of those things you do - very shallow, I know! But it has become a symbol that is stamped in our society, and an important message to go with it. I watched part of the rememberance service on tv, and it always makes me frown, mostly because I don't have one particular feeling about it. I am frowning now just trying to explain it. No, I don't think war is good, and I don't think killing is good, but the people we remember with the poppies are part of a killing force. When I remember people on that day it's the individuals I think of. Well, I guess they were good questions, it turns out I'm more political than I thought. I still do not know how I would summarise a political philosophy though, but thanks for challenging me
You can get white poppies which are supposed to be a symbol of peace and to some extent anti-war protest, but I never see them. Do you usually wear a poppy and not just buy it? Has anyone in your family (or friends) been affected by war?
I do normally wear a poppy on my coat, don't have em on my clothes as the kids would just pull them off. For some reason I didn't get round to pinning it on this year, it's been hectic the last couple of weeks. Has anyone in your family (or friends) been affected by war? Interesting question. You say 'affected by' as opposed to 'involved in,' so yes, I think we've all been affected by war, it's carved a lot of the world we live in. But in a more direct way, my grandad fought in WWII, over in Burma, not something he has ever talked about in great detail, so I couldn't tell you how it affected him, as I don't know what he was like before. And my grandma had 5 evacuee children come to live with her when she was a child, over the course of the war. My husbands grandad was in the military police in WWII, he used to tell a lot of his stories, once he was in Vienna and they all had a drink in a cafe with some German soldiers, they decided to call a truce for the morning. I think that is an awesome story, makes you think of the reality of it all.
As an overall answer, yes. Life has ups and downs in it, like today I got cross cos the car dealer refused to fix a problem with the car we just bought, but the rest of my day was spent happy. My 23 month old came and gave me a kiss before bed, and said 'love you' before he toddled off out the room with his dad to put him to bed. With things like that in my life, I can't not be happy
Please, if you got some piece of humanism, do not laugh, help to this poor child as you can. http://deniska-alare.narod.ru/index_eng.html
