To Sudbury and back

Toni joined mum for a craft fair in Sudbury today, so we left home at 7am to get there in time to set up. Then I accompanied dad back to their place to spend a reasonably relaxing morning. We listened to Blues v Wolves over the Internet - they went in 1-0 at the interval, but missed lots of good opportunities and were pegged back at the end with a late equaliser. To be honest, it sounded like we should have murdered them, but were prolifigate in front of goal. Nowt to do with the manager, who picked an unchanged side and is getting the players working to their strengths, and all to do with the individuals on the pitch. Hopefully the blip is just that and we continue to challenge for one of the automatic promotion slots.

My cousin Jemma, student union president at Exeter, was on Radio 4's PM programme this evening defending the uni's decision to ban an evangelical Christian student group for breaking rules involving equality of opportunity (this also made the front page of today's Times, although Jem wasn't named as it was a more general piece involving four UK universities in all). While I can understand why the group wants to only pick its committee or leaders from committed evangelicals, preventing anyone speaking to the group who hasn't signed a pledge extolling Christ as their lord and saviour smacks of hypocrisy to me. On the one hand they're crying foul by saying their free speech is being threatened by this move; on the other, if you don't fit their straitjacket in religious terms you're not allowed to speak to the group. This point didn't seem to be forcefully put - hopefully the lawyers will be given food for thought before wading in with their threatened legal action.