A phone call this morning, Matilda has got excellent marks in her GCSE marks, she passed with flying colours. Gosh that is a relief, a bad tempered Matilda is not the person you want to live with! 2 - 9s on the subjects she will be taking for A levels, Art and French next year, her brother Ben is already packed for London and Uni in Fashion design, she will be joining him the year after probably.
My daughter is so proud of her and so am I of course, else I would not be bragging about it...
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Yes? what is she going on about? Well the rather unfortunate middle class assumption that obesity comes with poverty and 'being poor'. This has given me a lot of thought, my family inherited my gene bank of 'skinneness' something which I am fast losing by the way because I love cheese and butter!! So fat/plump well educated middle class people do exist?
Can I stick up for the poor when obviously somewhere along the line something has gone drastically wrong for them, was it education, living in poor surroundings to start off, supermarkets who sell cheap dross, or a system that does not cater for everyone? So born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you follow the capitalist system because it has a fair sailing wind. Poor people on the other hand have little capital, here I am talking not about cash in the bank, but a good education and solid family backgrounds.
Why is it so?
The poor have so many reasons (excuses) for being where they are. Sometimes it is their own fault and sometimes it is the world stacked against them. No easy answers, but no reason to throw them all under the bus.
ReplyDeleteOf course I know there is no easy answer, even socialisam can't either ;) Perhaps we should allow people to live the life they have managed to eke out for themselves but definitely not point admonishing fingers at them.....
ReplyDeleteI do sometimes despair at the absolute over the top variety of food on offer in supermarkets - the varieties of cereals, biscuits, sweets,and rubbish food - most of which is placed by the check-out to tempt. I don't think there was the obesity around when I was young just after the wat - we ate what was available and never went hungry but a lot of whatis eaten now as a matter of course was a real special treat in those days.
ReplyDeleteI don't expect this is the answer but it does sadden me to see so many really obese young men women and children and I fear for their future sometimes.
Yes I remember calling the food dross on your blog, it is because it is being sold and tastes good because of how it is manufactured. When we were young,food was limited by its scarcity, technology has altered that, and the NHS will suffer in later years. There probably is not an answer, unless you impose a strict regime on the manufacturers (as if).
DeleteCongratulations on Matilda's results. We are celebrating my niece's results today too.
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From what I have seen on tv many children look happy (and relieved) that it is all over for the time being. Matilda had a celebratory lunch with her friends, so congratulations to them all!
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