Up early yesterday; gagging to get into the Conference for
the latest composite motion, the
national executive statement or delegate denouncing the wicked Tories, but alas
the union insisted on transporting its international and VIP guests to a
Vineyard to see the wine making , with lunch thrown in! Who am I to complain?
On the way up to La Mare we stopped at the Liberation
Tapestry. This project was started to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
liberation of the islands from the occupying Nazis. Some splendid panels tell
the islanders' stories- just two here. One shows the deportation of English
born islanders to a concentration camp in Germany, the other arrival of relief
packages organised by the wonderful Red Cross.
The vineyard was, as all vineyards are in my experience,
wonderful. A splendid lunch and visit to the shop- rude not to purchase. As you
see here, with the vines they came from in the background.
And en route we stopped off to see the Lighthouse.
The evening was at the beach house at St Brelalde. Jim
Murphy MP (Labour’s defence spokesperson) was a guest, good to see his comments
in the press today on the pernicious role that Unite is playing, as was Gareth
Thomas MP, who is Nick Hurd's opposite in the Commons. Good to chat to both of
them, and we viewed the sunset over our gorgeous seafood dinner!
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