Sometimes I despair even of blog writing! I could write a whole line of swear words as two idiots prance round on the stage of our national consciousness and promise airy-fairy land when we are really in the s**t. I wander round my links, and shout hollowly WHAT ABOUT the climate change we are experiencing now this moment, not just us but far more worrying other countries that have heat, drought, desertification and worst of all starvation that hits them. I could show signs of fairly small improvements as we make small adjustments to our energy use. Manchester installing 2000 small vertical wind turbines on their roads to capture the wind effect caused by cars. But I know there is a small section of blogland would like it all to be gentle photos of the England of long ago.
So today Anne the cleaner is here for top and bottoming certain parts of the house - spiders beware.... She is a nurse by profession but finds it easier to clean with having young children at home. I haven't had a cleaner during my adult life but as a child we had people to clean the house and live in to look after us children. My grandfather was a caring person, so his choices often were not quite as wise as they could be.
Not publishing, and then thinking better of it. I just love the song by George Ezra at the moment 'Green, green grass, blue, blue sky, you'd better hold a party on the day that I die'
This weekend is my daughter's birthday, Lillie has said she will make the Victoria cake, Karen has asked for. Takeway for Saturday meal, and lunch out at a restaurant called Yakamuma on Sunday, which seems to open only a couple of days a week. Ellie and Tom will be joining us, travelling for everyone is slightly stymied by train stoppages.
Somehow I feel guilty as all the terrible news belts in over the radio that we should all be going out to meals, etc, when the talk is always about how people can't meet the large energy costs and food prices rising. Perhaps next year we shall be in the same boat, still I will go on knitting blankets and wear a hat of course. As everyone should know heat escapes through your head! especially if the brain power is limited.... and now to somethings this magpie has picked up...
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| Think the Johnsons have moved in temporarily to Chequers to avoid not only the wallpaper but the disgruntled nation... |
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| Conundrums from Trump |
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| Sweet |
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| Cows on summer break up at the dam beach |
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| Happier times. Ben and Lillie playing witches |
Question: Why are working people having to use charity?
I am sorry, Thelma, the world seems like a mess right now. Altho, sometimes I imagine that it has always been a mess and we are just hearing about it more and more and more due to the Internet. So many people believe things that are NOT at all true but the lies keep bouncing around the Internet for them to swallow.
ReplyDeleteI would like a good news channel where they focus on the people and events that ARE making a positive difference so more people would follow that example instead of feeling so hopeless and giving up.
Please keep blogging because you have a viewpoint I need to see. Thank you.
I have almost given up the news, though having said that Ellen still read the Guardian every morning. I think us humans have too much empathy and we just feel the hardship of others. It is like cruelty to animals, one experiences a sudden shaft of emotion. I suppose our moods change, yesterday I was on the lookout for 'fools gold' it is called pyrite and there are traces of it around a town just outside Bath, in a place you can find ammonites - should be concentrating on that ;)
DeleteWe like your magpie pickings - but particularly panda and dragon. (And of course the Schrödinger's gave us a wry chuckle.)
ReplyDeleteSanity can always be found in other people Tigger. I also watch a lot of cat videos of course...
DeleteBut I thought we had to graft harder - i.e. write more blog posts.
ReplyDeleteFunny ;) writing though never changes the world.
DeleteHopefully not, considering some of the other things Misstrust has written in the past.
DeleteHow did we end up with her for possible PM I don't know, the political system fails once again. I like Misstrust, she will change her tune to suit the outfit she is wearing!
DeleteIt won't be solved in our time, Thelma, though I don't dispute our part in much of it. Not the lying and chicanery and excesses, but inability to elect a working crew.
ReplyDeleteYou are right Joanne, history has always taught us that life for many people can be miserable. Though I state here and now I have never voted Conservative ;)
DeleteThe world is a mess right now, and this is nothing we can do to change the big picture. All we can do is narrow our focus and do the best that we can from where we are at. I'm choosing to be encouraged that we've finally got the green light to begin addressing climate change in the US. I wish that I had some comforting words...but I don't. Just do good.
ReplyDeleteYes Debby I am glad that America with a new president regime is taking steps in the right direction and will try to do good ;)
DeleteRe your question, I don't know but I suspect the usual. There was always going to be a collapse, but the gap widens.
ReplyDeleteWell if you believe some commentators the West is slowly sinking, the chaos we are experiencing is just a conduit to whatever.
ReplyDeleteI have been out of circulation for four days but nothing has changed, Met an ardent Socialist in hospital when she came to visit her mother in the next bed. We had lovely chat - made my stay very enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteYes Pat we were all missing you, not knowing where you were. But you are back home now so all should be well. Glad you met a socialist and not any Conservatives! ;)
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