And ... rest.

Am tired, and achy. The two are distinct. Around 22:00, someone started banging and ringing on Mater's door, a 'little old man' calling for help with 'a 100 year old woman'. Mater had rushed to their aid, then realised she'd locked herself out of her flat! So around 22:45 - when I was already asleep - I got a phone call from the 24 hour support team, passing on Mater's plea that - as the only spare key holder - I get G to bring me over. Full marks to Mater for successfully using the 24 hour support system effectively. But given that Wong! then started Wong!ing on my head at 05:00, you can see why I'm shattered in the sleep sense! I ache all over in the physical exertion sense, too, but a gentle and healthy ache :-)

Clarence Willcock Day, 26 June

From No2ID:

"In December 1950, PC Harold Muckle stopped a dry cleaner in Finchley named Clarence Willcock and asked him to produce his World War II identity card. Mr Willcock refused, saying "I am a Liberal. I am against that sort of thing."

On 26th June 1951, in Clarence Willcock's High Court appeal, the Lord Chief Justice said that "...to use Acts of Parliament, passed for particular purposes during war, in times when the war is past, tends to turn law-abiding subjects into lawbreakers, which is a most undesirable state of affairs." As a result of the Willcock case and Lord Goddard's attack on their abuse, identity cards were abolished by Winston Churchill in 1952 as part of his "bonfire of controls".

Hackney & Shoreditch NO2ID will be celebrating Clarence Willcock Day with an evening of hip-hop, rap and poetry at the Hackney Empire next Tuesday, June 26th. Details on the NO2ID website:
http://www.no2id.net/news/events.php#143 "