Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

‘Welcome home Kelly Holmes’

…isn’t the builders advertising I thought it was. The town is decked out with Union Flags, with congratulatory messages in windows the length of the high street. Theres going to be a drivepast of our Olympic heroine later this afternoon.

Why does this make me angry? Maybe I can’t lose some of the associations of the flag, maybe theres something hollow about the celebration, maybe I’m just not a part of this community. Is she a part of the community?


2 comments

  1. .. I think you may have missed the point. Kelly Holmes did something exceptional, it gives people a chance to celebrate, pretend that we’re all big one community and forget their lives for a brief moment.

    You’re starting to sound like an old goth ;-)

  2. Both, I think….I’ve never been much of one for that kind of celebration, but it seems the whole town is/was into it. I think its just that actually, I don’t really like people that much.

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