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Tom's Notes—Ed Miliband: wait, what?

You know...

Let's be honest...

I get it...

Let's be honest...

I've always been very clear...

Let's be honest...

The rhetoric of Ed Miliband; we've got 4 years of this ahead. I think the over-arching thought, that no-one dares speak yet, is "wait, what?"

Ed Miliband leading the Labour party was a pleasant fiction during nomination. But now the fiction has become reality, no-one seems sure that they're sure this was for the best. The amount of media coverage older brother David still attracts suggests the media thinks it was a gaffe. The mechanical reception to his inaugural speech yesterday sets out regular party members' view of Ed. And the general public having little to absolutely no idea who Ed Miliband is says it all.

Here's my take: read again the rhetorical tics of Ed Miliband above—for what he's really like, think of the opposite.

Just wait and see.

Tom & Nana: Good Old

The artifice.

The romance.

The quiet gravity.

The past shouldn't be locked away.

Monday Music

Since there was a Simply Red special on TV the other night, here's "Star." Enjoy.

Tom & Nana: Canterbury Snaps

Good name.

Bright shop.

Bustling arcade.

Busy builders?

Tom & Nana: Quick Trip to Canterbury

There's this.

And then there's this.

Makes you wonder.

We preferred the green.

Tom & Nana: Wall to Wall

Bricks and mortar.

Paint them over and pretty them up.

Lay some stones, line some blocks.

Attach a trinket, hang a basket.

Make the spaces we move through.

The places we live.

Tom & Nana: Future Abode

We'll be ambling along this road.

Cobbling our way up this hill.

Mooching about on this high street.

Getting to know this door.

This insignia.

We'll be walking these streets soon enough!

Tom & Nana: Semi-Circles and Stuff

So what's down below?

Eye drawn.

Withdrawn.

A river runs through it.

And back to the blue sky.

Tom & Nana: Bloom Town

Out with the sun.

Open up and take it in.

A haberdasher here.

An odd ornament there.

And, what's that?

Monday Music

KT Tunstall and the "Devil Wears Prada song." Sorry, "Suddenly I See." Nana likes this one, hope you do too! Enjoy.

(Note: I couldn't upload the proper video because greedy, marketing-illiterate corporate interests won't share the YouTube code with us. Bah!)

Tom & Nana: Church Bell Sunday

Hear the chimes donging along the street.

Followed by people following people.

We're going to our church.

Into the old granite stander.

And then, all's quiet once again.

Tom & Nana: Some Fun for Saturday

Cover Girl!

Tom & Nana: More Cars...

Those old seats were stuffed with horse hair.

Non to auto-euthanasia.

Que si to preservation.

Elegant memory.

Pragmatic classic.

Join the club

Tom & Nana: Cars at Castle Hedingham

Up to Essex early.

A big day out.

At a stately home.

It was a car show.

Old Porsches in a row.