The family comes and goes. My daughter came back yesterday evening with Lillie, they had been to Manchester to look at prom dresses. They collapsed in my bedroom and I heard the news from London. Girl friend break up for grandson, but both grandchildren working quite happily there. Ben who has two jobs, one working for Conran and the other 'dressing' videos seems settled in the big city. K said she had just managed to catch the last train out of Piccadilly, there had been a major incident on the line and trains had stopped.
She told of a little house opposite the one they were staying in. Painted in red/blue/white, with apparently little British sayings that appeared each day. The friends they stayed with keep quiet about the outlandish nationalism that is over the road - where are you going my beautiful country?
The storm has arrived the wind growls down the Aga chimney, rain beats down. They are talking on the radio about how there is just not enough staff for the NHS, doctors, nurses and all the other staff that are needed.
The crisis experienced in the NHS, is echoed in trains and buses that don't run on time, at the moment due to people off working because of Covid.
I could go on about Climate change, but my daughter will say you are being miserable again mother, but with the strained relationships at the moment between Russia and Europe/America, it is as if this weather echoes the dark moments of the human race.
Some experts do not see extinction as a problem, this will apparently be the sixth and will just change our Earth into something different. The loss of our flora and fauna will be very sad, we are already seeing it as birds disappear, will we hear a cuckoo this spring I wonder.
Jan Morris talks of Federalisation... Some of us view Europe as our neighbours and would dearly love to get back to the relationship we had with them. And yes I know all about Brussels, but leaving has left us all in such a muddle.
Federalism is a mixed or compound mode of government that combines a general government (the central or "federal" government) with regional governments (provincial, state, cantonal, territorial or other sub-unit governments) in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.
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I am pleased you are enjoying the Jan Morris. She always talks so wisely and I like the idea that it is a book to dib into.
ReplyDeleteShe is what you might call a light writer Pat, touches the surface easily and skims along with her thoughts.
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