Tomorrow we've planned a family visit to Bolton, to see a wonderful play called And Did Those Feet.
I saw it last year with Lettie and Sparkologist, and it was one the best plays I've ever seen. On paper it's about Bolton's F.A. Cup run in 1923, but really it's about love, and the losses brought about by World War I.
It received a standing ovation when I saw it, and at least two of our party of three, had tears in their eyes.
I encouraged my family, including the younger members, that we should all take the chance to see it, after it was being reprised this spring.
Tickets were booked last August, and a pre-theatre dinner was booked at the Olive Press.
Now we've been informed that the restaurant is closed, because the English Defence League are having a mass rally tomorrow, and there's also an anti-ENDL protest planned, with people arriving from all over the country.
Many pubs, restaurants, and taxi firms, are apparenting closing tonight, and not reopening until Sunday lunchtime, and even now much of the town centre is barricaded, and cordoned off.
If we aren't able to get to the Octagon safely tomorrow, because of this rally, it won't be us shedding tears, it will be the protesters, who are attacked by my mother's brolly. Angered that something we've all looked forward to so much, has been spoiled.
