sadly things like carnivals and people celibrating as a commuinity are things that over the past 20 years we have been bullied into been ashamed of.Anything resembling tradition and been a british way of life has been belittled to the point where some think these traditions and ways are a waste of time.
our population has become diluted and those that come here have no interest in keeping tradition alive and theres 3 maybe four generations of a certain culture that prove that as they still live by choice in exclusion.
did this carnival and the past few look to me as grand as the ones when i was a little boy ?
well the answer to that is no they dont but that could be to do with the fact that now i see them with a a tainted view on the world where as when i was a little boy i was looking up in awe and wonder at the floats and not concerned with things like cost and how long the roads were goingto be diverted because i want to drive through town.
get the akash to do a float and ill be behind it all teh way with a knife and fork
im just glad some folk are still trying