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| Water's Edge Curlew by Scottish artist Claire Harkness |
Will there be change? A question that flutters in the air, look at the article on how - Lockdown has Laid Down Bare Britain's Class Divide. Class divisions are reflected in the space of a house or garden that we may live in. Parks are for public use, they were brought in by the Victorians to ameliorate the tight squeeze of living in a town or city, closing them down may not be the most sensible of actions. Like everyone I wish Boris Johnson full health in the coming days, but nurses are not necessarily happy with the choices that have been made, and the slogan 'May they never be deemed 'low skilled again' bites home. Especially when in a care home in Whitby all the staff, care workers have locked themselves in with their charges. All over the country there are acts of supreme unselfishness that should humble us and question what is important in the scheme of things.
Did Capitalism work?? yes for some but many others lagged behind. Greta Thunberg, asked the question, if it only brings a virus to topple the world, we can't be living in a very secure environment, or words to that effect.
Easyjet and Branson of Virgin fame should examine their consciences, Supermarkets are putting profit to one side and working with the public to see that everyone is fed. Paying out obscene amounts of money to CEOs is not the right answer nor squirrelling it away in the Virgin Islands so that you don't pay tax. Not all bad, one CEO Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame is apparently going to donate one quarter of his money to the Corona19 fight.
Virgin Atlantic - Asking for a £500 million taxpayer bailout from the government.Virgin Galactic -
Moving Branson's $1.1 BILLION stake into tax havens.Verging on the ridiculous - The behaviour of some companies & bosses during this crisis.…
A congratulation from our police force, Ryedale communities are 98% staying at home. Actually I feel sorry for all the delivery drivers.
Brilliant post Thelma. I am going to tell my son to read it - I am sure he will agree with your thoughts on the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteTimes they are a-changing as the song goes. Perhaps the changes will be good.
DeleteThe Plague has indeed raised many interesting questions - not least the fact that over in America, poor black people are much more likely to be victims than rich white folk. It was nice to hear the familiar, plaintive song of the curlew. The song of the uplands.
ReplyDeleteI listen for the curlew every year, of course it is impossible to go up to the moors. Everything that has seemed solid and firm, now sits on a wobbly economic. Green politics would welcome a shift but will the rest be happy?
DeleteI've never seen or heard a curlew. Thank you for the sound and sight.
ReplyDeleteAs for the rest, we do what we can. I cannot make fat cats change. I am grateful for the millions doing their part or more.
Birds you can hear but rarely see Joanne. I think the fat cats though should pay their fair share of taxes though.
DeleteI live in a very poor state in the US in a very poor county and all three people who have died are poor white people. So do not let what you read over media convince you that its all racially unfair. White, Hispanic, Asian are all dying. Covid 19 is not racist.
ReplyDeleteHi, plagues are never particular in who they make ill or kill I quite understand that. Covid19 has taken young and old, we can only hope for a vaccine.
DeleteI hear curlews from my house as we have moorland not far away. They have a beautiful call don't they, I love when it returns to the sound palette.
ReplyDeleteLucky you, we had one somewhere in the fields last year, but like the cuckoo the curlew is becoming scarce.
ReplyDeleteI agree with all you say. The call of the Curlew is such a wonderful sound it is beautiful and does make the heart lift for a second or two, same with the cuckoo, it's call always lifts my spirits and reminds me of childhood when we heard them so regularly over our village:)
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