I decided to 'go for it' and get  a ticket for Nelson Mandela's Birthday Concert at Hyde Park , London , on June 27th ;
Because of peculiarities of AOL the link to the page to print my ticket from did'nt work , until I eventually had the idea of signing into aol.co.uk on internet explorer , which worked fine , except I then could'nt get off of that site : This poor  ageing computer 'freezes up' on the internet at least every other day .
Anyway I think that U2 will play  though that's uncomfirmed , as is Paul McCartney , and much of the already announced musical line up is impressive enough , not to mention Will Smith , Bill Clinton , Robert de Niro , Gordon Brown and Mandela himself likely to be there for some of the long duration  ;  It'll start at 2pm but I plan to be there from around six-ish .
It's entirely not imposssible that there could be other audience members there who I know .
I would'nt be surprised to see Tony and Cherie  luxuriating in the Ultra-VIP section .
You may have seen a tv documentary a couple of years ago about a lady called Chris who has early-onset Alzheimers disease .
In it she was in a painting class with a group of fellow Alzheimers victims , painting , I think it was , Cambridge Cathedral .
On her painting she added the words 'I hate Tony ' and 'I hate Cherie'.
Which seems a very good indicator  of mental well-being to me !
Co-incidentally the programme also featured her having a holiday in Southwold with her daughter , and , having packed everything I was bringing here , on a little black and white tv I watched a repeat of that programme , in bed the night before I moved here , in December '06 .