I went round the garden this morning to gather calming photographs, but Blogger is saying there is no internet on my photo link. But an hour later there is; there are gods around if you look for them!
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| The bird dog who helps |
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| Second coming |
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| In the yellow corner |
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| Morning sun on the East Wall |
God forbid, that this wretch, Jacob Rees Mogg, (where is Hogarth when you need him?) sitting next to Johnson, will have any hand in the government of this country in the future. His arrogance goes beyond redemption. But then he was made to sit bolt upright when the vote declared that the Tories had lost.
Reading Yorkshire Pudding's hideout up in the hills, okay dramatic licence and all that, when Civil War breaks out between us Remoaners and the Brexiteers.. It does unfortunately remind us that we have been there before between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians.
Brings to mind The Lansdown Battle, just outside Bath when friend fought friend and died for their beliefs. And where I am so much happier digging out history of events that have happened hundreds of years ago, and not living through a maelstrom of immediate calamities.
Yes - they always say a picture can be worth a thousand words - and that picture says it all (it is in The Times too). I can hardly bear to listen to any of it at present and like you I have to find pleasure in the small things of life - my Gallardias having a delicious second flowering, the way my Shasta Daisies (I got the idea from you) have gone on and on all Summer. Sometimes I envy Tess - all this goes way over head. Thinking of you over there - not all that far away.
ReplyDeleteThank you Pat, my Shasta daisies are going over but the snapdragons and roses still go on. Not sure I would come back as a dog, sweet as they are their brains need some upgrading..
DeleteLike you, I have found peace in my gardens when the turbulence around me seems overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteSometimes Arleen I think the world will come apart at the amount of news we are listening to all the time. Gardens soothe the troubled soul.
DeleteSo many things political that are seemingly unaffected by my conscientious vote! I have no faith in politicians of any stripe!
ReplyDeleteMy garden [in spite of drought, blight or bugs] my cats, my books--are a refuge. Some would call it an escape. Especially as I have aged, I cherish such corners of semi-stability as I can create or encourage. Selfish? Perhaps.
Interesting Sharon, the idea of guilt as we get old but I don't think we need be. Our efforts are part of a greater sum, think of all the people who live on the land and also working on the land.
ReplyDeleteI was just saying on a friend's post, where she has fallen out with long-standing friends over this, that it's like Civil War. I am not a Political animal and don't get embroiled in political arguments. What's the point?
ReplyDeleteWell Jennie I read an article this morning which concluded that we are actually going through a democratic process; The law has been called in and the constitution though occasionally rewritten has handled the situation. Time limits are not particularly good for making decisions.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/09/britain-politics-chaotic-constitution-working/597340/
I think the world is going through political transformations right now. It's very unsettling but it's not unique to our time. Just we had lived through a kind of golden age, most of us in the West. Time's up.
ReplyDeleteTrue Rain, history teaches us that wars sort out the problem to a point, here in Britain we have divided into two sides over the issue of leaving Europe. Some talk with absolute hate of being part of it whilst others rejoice in the freedom of movement.
DeleteThere is a global crisis afoot as the rich have gotten very rich and the poor can barely make it to a food table some days. There can be compromise, but the rich truly fear losing a single dollar. At the end I am sure my country will have a much smaller voice.
ReplyDeleteTabor I don't blame America, it is just the people who happen to get in power who are to blame. As Rain says we have lived through a Golden Age of prosperity in the rich countries bought on by a system that rewarded the unscrupulous.
DeleteI appreciated your garden pictures and the picture of the church next door but my pleasure was spoilt by the final image of that loathsome Old Etonian windbag, lounging like a sultan in an Arabian harem.
ReplyDeleteHe was at the bottom of the page. His attitude so striking of an age long gone, his stupidity and arrogance needs to be highlighted.
ReplyDeleteJust discovered your blog and I think I’m going to like it. x
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