The Cheerful Insanity of Me

So, staying with Iran, but moving onto the bigger news item about the place at the moment... the elections.

OK, there are some distinctly odd things about the election, to the extent that I would agree that it would be good to see it run again more openly.

However, even given this, there doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence to suggest that Mousavi should have won (although I haven't looked into it in that much detail). The BBC even suggest that independent international pollsters came up with a similar 2-1 result toward Ahmadinejad compared to Mousavi a few weeks earlier with the others only getting a small proportion of the vote.

OK, there are vocal supporters of Mousavi, as there are for Ahmadinejad, but you cannot assume they are representative of the population.

I'm not Iranian and as such have no right to have any say in there elections, so I am not going to show my support for a politician who I have not seen any evidence to suggest that they would have won in a fair and democratic election, by adopting his colours. However, I do certainly agree that the elections should be re-run in a fair and open way.

*hmmm_tea has found the family monopoly set*

Life seems to be full of changes at the moment and so it occured to me yesterday, that maybe it was time to make some slight changes to my LJ, as a result, the vacuum cleaner theme has now gone.

I've walked past this pub, almost everyday since I moved here, and although it's closed and doesn't even look the sort of place I'd like to go, it's name just appealed to me. So, yesterday I took a photo:



Thinking I should use it on LJ somewhere, it strangely took quite a while to come up with the idea of having it as a userpic, but there it is now.

As a result, yesterday, I deleted most of my current userpics and started again (it was good to have a complete overhaul of them, although I did keep Henry).

However, going back over my recent posts, there have been a number about the local area around Old Kent Road, which I'd like to have a userpic for. I know exactly what it should be, but don't have one, so I'll pass this out as a request to blogosphere

If someone with a standard UK monopoly set could either scan or photo the Title Deed card for Old Kent Road and email it to me I would be very grateful.