Today Ifan and I manned the stall at the local market in Exeter for http://tapvision.info or in long Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill. Ify went up early whilst I got Morgaine ready to go to Grannie's place.
When I got there, he said most had been nice, though he had been called a " fucking idiot with no soul " and also had had said to him " you obviously don't have children ". I found this rather illogical and typical of the usual pro-pulp mill yob. They insinuate that without this damn mill there will be no future, no jobs..blah blah...the bloody mill if built will provide less than 300 jobs...if Tasmania's economy lays in the 300 jobs a pulp mill might create then we really are in dire straits.....thus the assumption we are childless, not in a million years would I ever want my baby working at a mill when she got older OR going out with the ill bred, non-reading Tasmanian redneck that would work in one. The truth be known is that WITH this pulp mill we have less of a future and certainly not a safe one. I know that because I love my child, I don't want a mill with pollutants from a-z and back again...
The most exciting part of the day was the main passion behind TAP, Mr Bob McMahon turing up with a crew from the BBC to talk to us !!! Yes the BBC, not the ABC...I went all tongue tied and blundered about like a drugged elephant, but Ify was eloquent enough. We sold a lot of raffle tickets, bought a few myself and got sunburnt despite SPF and aviators...
