As many of you will know, up until a year ago, I lived in London – infact I was born there, grew up there, worked there, met my gorgeous husband there and gave birth to my daughter there.
A few people (this is the exception rather than the rule) have expressed disgust at me “a Londoner” who has decided to make Ventnor my home, “How dare I!”
I can understand how people from the Isle of Wight want to keep it to themselves – many of those reasons are why people are attracted here – but the reality is this planet belongs to no-one and everyone. Just as I believe that people from the world over should be able to travel to the UK and decide to live here if they want (and vice versa), I believe that I should be able to find somewhere that I love and make my life there. Regardless of where I was born.
This is particularly apt considering I was actually born in a bus stop on the Western Avenue. Somehow, I can’t imagine setting up home there! Might be a tad uncomfortable (not to mention a bit noisy).
Anyway, enough of the personal details. Being a Londoner, every so often I like to see what’s going on in my home town and was gutted to see that this weekend I missed Clapham Common being turned into a skateboarding, bmx and breakdancing arena.
Sponsored by Sprite (corporate sponsorship is everywhere these days – although an ice cold lemonade does go down well in 33 degrees), there was all sorts of stuff going on, including a £40k prize for the most talented!
Any of you who’ve visited MySpace will know of my love of breakdancing and might have taken the time to watch this totally amazing and inspiring video.
Roll on White Air 2006 I say.
