Project management

Considering the players of BRFC seem to take a generally negative stance towards region (and Christianity in particular) these blogs seem to be turning quite pro-Christian all of a sudden; people giving things up for Lent (and even knowing when Lent is); raising money for charity; supporting free speech…

I see ‘Europe’s last dictator’, Lukashenko of Belarus managed to win the recent elections with the help of a couple of rigged ballot papers and a bit of intimidation from his KGB mates (but lets face it, he would have won by a mile anyway and appears to be very popular) and this have caused a bit of a stir in the western media. Couldn’t help but think it was a bit hypocritical of the US to criticize, when Bush was elected on a very dodgy ballot!

Anyway, a further Markstock meeting took place on Sunday. My hope of ‘going back to basics’ i.e. just get a couple of tents pitched, a BBQ and some music and let everything else take care of itself seems to be drifting in the opposite direction. Big Pete has been issuing more ‘rules’ – no drinking of alcoholic beverages to take place before the fighting tournament, a revising of the rota so that the events scheduled more strictly, disappointment with the size of the ‘boulder’ etc. Not sure how smoothly all of this is going to operate after the consumption of large amounts of alcohol (pissed people throwing a rock around, possibly in the dark and people wrestling near fires and glass bottles) but all we can hope for is good weather…