For the last nine days, this blog has been my personal Mill Hill Music Festival Diary. There are three reasons I do this. The first is I think it might be interesting to a few of you! The second is that it is useful to record what I was up to, as it makes planning for the next festival easier. The third reason is that it stops me getting distracted if I say "Right the blog is the festival diary". If ever you've wondered why I devote so much time to my blog, it's because I actually enjoy doing it and I think it is good for my mental health. It's not that I have mental health issues to any great extent ( we all have challenges sometimes) and I think it keeps me in a good frame of mind. When the blog started, a high proportion of the content was about the politics of the London Borough of Barnet. These days, I don't spend much time at all on this. The reason? The previous Tory administration was rubbish. The current Labour one would is almost as bad. If Reform got in, things would be terrible and my friends in the Lib Dems don't seem particularly motivated to score in what could be an open goal. I am not a politician, I am a musician and politics has been a distraction, one which has taken a lot of time. I am proud of much of what the blogs of Barnet achieved but I can only really get involved with things that warrant my time. Opposing One Barnet was one such thing, but I've no bandwidth for the day to day things that people constantly badger me to get involved in. This doesn't mean tomorrow won't see see a political blog, but there wil be less of them than there were ten years ago.
Barnet has a lot of great people, who worked tirelessly to keep the forces of stupidity at bay. I feel a debt to all of them to continue to offer support when asked. I just can't lead and spend my life digging through papers as I once did. Ten years ago, we had a Tory government and a Tory Council. Now we have a Labour Government and a Labour Council and I can't really see any difference. As such, I have to ask myself if it is worth devoting thousands of hours a week to just moaning about something where there is not much prospect of anything useful happening.
That doesn't mean there will be less blogging, in fact there may be a bit more, but mostly on subjects that interest me and excite me now. Anyway, how was your week. I had a wonderful week at the Mill Hill Music Festival. I now have a busy week of watching gigs other people have organised and getting ready for The False Dots next show!
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