Well yesterday I chased bees, there is a bumble nest under the roof of the old coke house. A honey suckle sprinkles its magic over the fence and the ceonothus is just coming into bloom, its soft blue flowering habit somewhat unusual in a garden given over to pinks, reds and yellows. My camera played up when I tried to film it, but I am going to give it another try. Cameras have a language I do not understand, full of abbreviations, numbers and complicated instructions.
Dominic Cummings is passing in a swirl of news, we all move on. So the above video will please the heart, we are in a new era at the moment so how do we change the world? Arundhati Roy, an Indian novelist talks about how the pandemic is a portal to a new world.
"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing".
Yes I would like a different world, it will probably never happen but there has been a slight adjustment to the old world. Here in our country and others we have learnt of kindness from the majority of people, we have learnt that we do not have to rely on the outdated stuffiness and crap of educated Eton boys. The people who count are doctors, nurses, cleaners, dustbin men, supermarket shop workers and kind neighbours. They have done their jobs in the face of a cruel pandemic. We won't go back to the original world, this world and the air we breath is cleaner, pollution has fallen away. The animals have wandered into our towns, are they really concerned about our welfare ;)
Will you really go into a changing room and try on clothes that someone else has worn, we now walk around with strictures to obey - two metres distance, it will be marked by yellow lines and chalked pavements. And of course we will all keep our fingers crossed that there will not be a second wave.
Well said Thelma. Let's hope we can all put it behind us, think about things much more caefully and gie the credit where it is due. There is nobody I give credit to more highly than my wonderful dustbin men, who one day saw me struggling to get my bin down the drive, stopped, shouted to me to leave it, rang the depot there and then to put me on the list and toldme in future toleave it where it was and they would collect it from there. And they have done. Doctors and health staff are amazing and always have been. What has always infuriated me is how people go on about immigrants and then go into hospital and have a major operation - almost always conducted by a surgeon from abroad.
ReplyDeleteAgree completely, having attended a hospital for a long time in the role of a visitor, the first thing that is noticeable is how many people from other countries represent the doctors, surgeons, nurses and ancillary staff. They are polite and courteous, not something you can always say of a very few British people.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. would be more lost without our immigrants filling all these important roles.
ReplyDeleteIt takes a pandemic to make us understand how important people are in our lives.
DeleteI was looking,today, for a doctor for a recent ailment. It's eye opening.
ReplyDeleteWell that is good, maybe we have become so used to different people from other countries working that we have forgotten to register their 'foreignness'.
DeleteI also agree, well said. I do hope that we continue to honour all these wonderful people, who have worked so hard during this time.
ReplyDeleteI think a decent wage should also be part of the pact as well.
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