Random ramblings

It is 10.30pm and Veggie Hubby is watching Jesus of Nazareth. It is a loooong film (some 6 hours in total) and I'm totally bored. I feel like writing a stream of consciousness for the sake of it, as I have nothing better to do.

Well, actually I could read 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' which I am really enjoying but I have read a lot of it already today, and it is actually quite depressing. It angers me how women are treated in some cultures; that they are treated based on WHAT they are rather than WHO they are. For instance, one of the two main protagonists in this book, Mariam, is even treated like dirt by her own parents and much older husband, who was forced upon her when she was aged only fifteen, because her father was too ashamed of her to allow her to live in his house. The reasons they seem to have for treating her so appallingly are a) because she is a woman b) because she is the result of an affair, neither of which she (obviously) had any choice over. It does not matter to them that she is a sweet and trusting, if somewhat naive girl (because she hasn't received the education that she should have been entitled to). They seem to have no empathy at all for her, or her situation. OK, this is just fiction, but many women all around the world are quietly suffering at the hands of men. Reading this book makes me feel pretty lucky that I am a British woman, married to a 'modern' man.

Today, we have been preparing for Easter. This afternoon, we were looking at/photographing an Easter egg display in a shop window, which was really cute, with bunnies and sheep. Then, I looked up and noticed a beautiful rainbow. All of a sudden, it started to rain and not just rain but heavy sleet, with lots of hail and ice. So much for it being the start of Spring, but Veggie Hubby thought it was rather appropriate as it is Good Friday. The ground was quickly full of ice and slush. I haven't seen such a torrential downpour for a while. It gave a nice community feel, as everyone was huddling together in shop doorways, waiting for it to stop. However, I don't mind the rain much, I felt happy to run (it was raining too much to walk) through the empty streets, as it is not often they get that empty. We stopped in a coffee shop to dry off and have a drink. Tomorrow, we are going to visit some friends, and then on Sunday, we are going to spend our first Easter together, just the two of us. We are going to try to make our first Easter dinner together, and we may go to Church.