Tuesday, May 27, 2008

My 2001st post!


What better way to celebrate passing the 2000th post landmark on my blog than to mention my folks, Chris and Wes Weate. They made me what I am: opinionated, insatiably curious about the world, a lover of books, gardens, design, wine and foreign climes. Meanwhile, they have risen from more-or-less rural working class (although with solid land-owning 'yeoman stock' down the father's line, including an Oxbridge-educated Reverend in the 18th century - one William Weate) to rural upper-middle-class: bookish types who have travelled on every continent and do things like starting their own film club in Wheaton Aston, my home village.

Where else then to find them in the past few days than at Hay, which they now do every year. You can see a teeny clip of my mom being interviewed (post the Cherie Blair/Booth event) here. She talks from 1.01 to 1.05.

11 comments:

Waffarian 2:25 pm  

They look jolly! hehehehehe.....looks like they would enjoy music and dancing as well...do they?

Anonymous,  3:56 pm  

My parents fucked me up.

Sandrine 7:35 pm  

Hi Jeremy,
Congratulations!
I Love your blog.I read it every day (except week ends!),first thing before I start working.
Take care.
Sandrine

Favoured Girl 8:35 pm  

Congrats! I enjoy dropping by your blog to catch up on debates and contoversial happenings, your trips around the world, gist on books and literary events, comments from opinionated peeps, etc. I look forward to reading many more of your posts.
Your parents look/sound like they are having the time of their lives!

Naapali 8:35 pm  

2001!
Where is the Space Odyssey?
Congratulations though and heres to hoping you remain as vocal and opinionated as ever. Who else would we joust with?

Something about the apple and the tree. Your parents travel extensively and go to book festivals. I am shocked about how you have turned out.

Favoured Girl 8:36 pm  

Congrats! I enjoy dropping by your blog to catch up on debates and contoversial happenings, your trips around the world, gist on books and literary events, comments from opinionated peeps, etc. I look forward to reading many more of your posts.

Your parents look/sound like they are having the time of their lives!

Anonymous,  9:05 pm  

Bless 'em

Nuggetzman 8:51 am  

Jeremy,
Congrats...and am ever amazed at ur 'restlessness' and volume of creative output. Aside ur blogs, many would be waiting 4 a prose or fictional novel now dat u've crossed the 2nd millennia of ur blogging. When u do...we'll be reading another in the ilk of Wole Soyinka...for whom ppl complain that he writes like one talking to Muses and not Humans!
By the way, if you had an Oxbridge-trained Reverend in ur lineage, wetin come happen now...abi u no wan transfer to baton of revendhood to the next generation?...lol!

Fred 3:50 pm  

Excellent! Many more returns.

Fred 3:51 pm  

Excellent and well done!

anonymaus,  3:04 pm  

2000 posts on Nigeria, wow - that is really some achievement (I know that I couldn't do it and wouldn't do it). Well done on your commitment and perseverance.

I'm sure your parents as proud of you as you are of them.

Just think, you know that country better than do many of it's citizens (those within the country and those abroad) and no doubt could present a more balanced picture as you've no ethnic axe to grind (one of the appealing aspects of your blog).

Thank you very much for your posts and insights provided by you, into your life there and the country as seen through your eyes.

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