Beautifully colour co-ordinated marching bands making the most beautiful soothing music.
And look, we've got ethnic groups from right across China. And Beauty Queens too.
And now they're all setting off to march through the streets of Hong Kong. Hope those Beauty Queens are wearing comfy shoes.
Ah, it's all so pretty I've immediately surrendered my heart and mind! Isn't it so kind of Beijing to send us this parade. So much prettier than that pesky Tiananmen Square Memorial Vigil earlier this week that was so packed - 150,000 people - we couldn't even get in.
In fact, we couldn't even get into the place where they were putting the people who couldn't get in and so were a block away from Victoria Park trapped among the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds who were trying to get somewhere closer to the place where the people were trying to get into the place where they were waiting to put the people who couldn't get into the place they were putting the people who couldn't get in.
In the end, we snuck off to look at bookshops.
In fact, why don't I see if there's something yet on youtube so you too can see how much nicer and how much prettier this one is:
That short also shows why this Vigil was so exceptionally packed this year. Students at Hong Kong's Chinese University made a replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue that student protesters put up at Tiananmen Square 21 years ago, and, when they tried to put her up on campus and then at Victoria Park, there was a huge and stupid reaction from Beijing and police were sent in and things got very nasty and ... well, Hong Kong went All-Feisty and used the June 4th Vigil to show their anger at Beijing's interference.
Let me see if I can find a news story:
So that's what I've being ignoring writing this script; fictional horror versus real life horror. Kinda!
And now - ah, so sweet - Beijing has sent us a very pretty march with beautiful people, wonderful choreography and such lovely soothing music to stroke us nicely and calm things down again.
Let me show you again:
Quite astonishing, isn't it, that I can sit here at my computer, writing, killing off dread-locked teenagers in myriad interesting and spectacular ways, yet still be on the forefront of political events.
Ah look! It's started to rain. And those Beauty Queens have paper umbrellas too!
No, no, no. That's not me you hear laughing!
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No, not China this time. It was in the newspaper that this was the Philippines march celebrating something Philippine-ish!
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