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No Wig Required

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I can hardly believe that I’m blogging about this but –

Did you know that there is going to be a Ginger Pride Walk through the centre of Edinburgh on August 10th? You can read about it here.

Obviously it is all very tongue in cheek but there is no doubt that people, particularly schoolchildren, do get bullied just because they have ginger/red hair. I’m sure it is a hangover from the days when we were overcome by the Romans and the Celts ended up being pushed to the fringes of Britain, Celts were more likely to have red hair. So those nutty enough to poke fun at someone because of a colour are really siding with the Romans.

The march is completely open to people not lucky enough to have red hair too. Red wigs will be provided if you want to show solidarity! Have a look here.

The Ginger Pride Walk takes place August 10th starting at 11 o’clock outside Balmoral Hotel. Will I be too busy?

Wimbledon, Andy Murray

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I’ve just been watching Andy Murray getting through to the next round of Wimbledon and as usual it was an exciting but stressful match. I’m quite proud of myself for being able to sit through it all though because there have been times in the past when I couldn’t stand the tension and had to take myself off into the garden.

There are still too many miserable people who refuse to support him though. Shame on them. Their excuses are so feeble too.


He’s too grumpy and he never smiles, apparently. But the one that really gets me is – His hair is a bit red!

His hair is dark brown and I think anyone who thinks it’s a bit red must be colour blind. In common with all Europeans his hair has tiny bits of red in it which show up in very bright light, but if he’s supposed to be a redhead, then so is everyone else. Being prejudiced against redheads is the only prejudice which hasn’t been made illegal. If you say anything nasty about the colour of a person’s skin rather than their hair colour you will obviously find yourself in deep trouble. The same goes for nationality.

So what all these people who claim that they don’t like Andy Murray because his hair is a bit red are really saying is that they don’t like him because he’s a big bit Scottish!

It’s a bit much really because we were all supporting Tim Henman and any other British/English tennis players for years, and let’s face it, most of the time Tim was a big bit rubbish.

Gon yersel’ Andy!