Million. Women. Rise. 2009
We mustered and we waited.
It took ages to get going but while we waited the numbers and noise just grew and grew.
We were about in the middle and it was HUGE!
There were rather a lot of women, marching, singing, shouting and generally being very very obvious through central London, which we brought to a complete standstill and we clearly made for excellent pictures….
We blocked roads and brought everything to a complete standstill for hours.
The roads were closed.
We took up loads of police time!
Several days later we reached the rally… Well it felt like several days, it was a couple of hours of stop start walking, shouting and banner waving and I still hurt!
But you know what? I reckon I’ll be there again next time, possibly sooner if I can at other marches and rallies.
This blog post has been brought to you by SharkBait and HUGE thanks are owed to fellow bloggers Witchy Woo; RMott and Stormy along with the other fantastic women I met, bumped into, hugged and was deafened by.
A most satisfying day
Comment by witchy-woo — March 10, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
Great day, and so nice to meet you for the first time, as well as catching up with those I already knew.
Comment by stormy — March 10, 2009 @ 6:55 pm
Did my last comment go through?
Comment by stormy — March 10, 2009 @ 6:56 pm
Yes it did, I mod comments coz of Trumpets…. Was good to meet you too Stormy, and to meet other women I only knew online and to reconnect with old friends too. It was a great day.
Comment by SharkBait — March 10, 2009 @ 7:35 pm
I was not sure that my comment was even in mod, there was no message to say so, it just *disappears*.
Comment by stormy — March 11, 2009 @ 10:16 am
Ah, that’d be a quirk of blogsome I’m afraid Stormy me old fruit. But rest assured that it doesn’t tend to eat comments for breakfast, just sends them on for me to approve or laugh at.
Comment by SharkBait — March 11, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
so that explains why there was no tea that night… ah well.
Comment by simply wondered — March 13, 2009 @ 11:28 pm
Hi Simply,
Seeing as you didn’t get in til after midnight we fed your tea to the dog, well we tried to, she wouldn’t eat it but by then it was cold so we chucked it in the bin!
I’m sure you coped on your usual balanced diet of a jaffa cake in each hand.
Comment by SharkBait — March 13, 2009 @ 11:34 pm
*rifles bin desperately just in case*
*pokes dog*
*wanders off to witchy’s to try luck in her bins*
Comment by simply wondered — March 14, 2009 @ 1:37 pm
The dog and bins ARE at Witchy’s you muppet…..
**throws the lad a couple of jaffa cakes**
Comment by SharkBait — March 14, 2009 @ 2:36 pm