Can the weather get any duller? the skies sort of leaked all day yesterday, not proper full on rain, no, more like a leaky tap. The Canadian geese and ducks seemed to enjoy it down by the canal and as I wander past the enormous medical building, I wonder if there is a somewhat different agenda going on for it. Like many centres the doors are closed and operated by voices letting you in. The building itself, enormous and with many rooms for different treatments, sits like a white elephant on the landscape, understaffed and underused. Will this eventually be turned into a private practice? People complain about not seeing a doctor, or able to get through the phone to speak to anyone, we have all become so needy in this time of Covid. Luckily Boots the chemist runs a pharmacy from the building and here you can get prescriptions.
Yesterday I watched a Guardian video of immigrants stuck on the border between Belarus and Poland, pawns in one of those ghastly games Russia plays. The immigrants arrive at the border but held back by soldiers, they live in the forest, burning the felled wood, but hungry and cold and in need of medical attention.
We praise the fallen from the last two world wars in the last few days, and yet there is a grim reminder of what the world is really like elsewhere. Whether it is war or climate change, there is a great movement of people around the world fleeing that which is terrible in their countries, or maybe just being economic immigrants - and do you blame them?
Perhaps I need a softer subject to write about at the moment!
The weather certainly doesn't lift the spirits when all it can manage is grey. Being higher up than we used to be in our old home, we can see layers of grey above the quarry, and passing cloud. This morning it is leavened by a little blue seen through the kitchen window, but will it improve?
ReplyDeleteIs the large medical building you have there meant to be a new take on a cottage hospital? A shame it lies empty.
I think cottage hospitals are something from history now Jennie. No these are special rooms for different treatments. Actually I can see blue skies from the window this morning, very pale, but following the virtual Lake District dog walk this morning I notice high rivers and flooded fields.
ReplyDeleteYou could write about cuddly toys. They are pretty soft.
ReplyDeleteAnd no. I do not blame them. It's just such a crying shame that they have to undertake a scary, costly and dangerous obstacle course to get to a better place. With climate change, brutality and overpopulation the migrants will keep coming. In the meantime Alexander Lukashenko should be eliminated.
When you look at the families from granny to the youngest grandchildren shivering in the cold, you just wonder how can the soldiers stand round and do nothing.
DeleteFollowing orders madam. Some of them must be thinking, "What the hell am I doing? This cannot be right."
DeletePutin is having the time of his life at the moment.
ReplyDeletePutting pressure on Europe must give him great pleasure.
DeleteThis world has so many problems, and at the root of them all, there is one thing: Our total disregard for our fellow man.
ReplyDeleteI expect it will never get better either Debby.
DeleteI have been thinking along the same lines for the past few days - the News on TV, the Times every morning - for two pins I would stop taking the Times but then I think my brain would stagnate - and that is the first sign.
ReplyDeleteNewspapers fill empty space with their interpretations of what is happening in the world but it is the people who do the suffering Pat.
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