Festival of Zealots and Failures

Simon and Jude. what a pairing. The Zealot and the Patron Saint of the Last Resort

So we decided to celebrate our Festival of Zealots and Failures. Personally I've always thought of Simon the Zealot as being a bit shouty and grumpy and angry about the Romans. So I asked people for a list of things that make them really angry and they came up with:

• Getting stuck behind a slow driver wearing a pork-pie hat
• Traffic wardens
• Lorries overtaking other lorries up slight hills on dual carriageways
• The M1 roadworks
• People who try to go straight ahead on Milton Keynes roundabouts by taking a line that doesn't need them to steer round the corner.
• Having people driving really close to your back bumper when you're out for a nice, safe drive while wearing your pork pie hat.
• Tractors.
• Cyclists.
• People on horses on the road in the rush hour.

So we asked people to come up with some things that made them really angry, that didn't involve driving. They thought for quite a while, and then somebody said "George Osborne's grin". And for the first time in living memory, the Beaker Folk all agreed with one another.

Then we asked them to come up with some notable areas where they feel they have failed. I thought that would give us the chance to examine some routes to healing. And they came up with the conclusion that they were all a bit too humble sometimes.

Somehow, I feel like we're not really breaking through here.