Thank you to everyone who left such kind caring comments on my journal entry for yesterday. It was very sweet , bless you all !
Today I feel so much better. A good night`s sleep helped tremendously and I awoke this morning at 6.45 am feeling really refreshed. I always do my food shopping on a Thursday morning and I got there earlier than usual...wow ! Even at 9am Tesco`s car park was almost full and I had to struggle round with shop with my wonky trolley trying not to bump into anyone . Our Tesco`s is a temporary one because the main store is being made into the largest in Europe, apparently it`s going to be state-of-the-art and it`s costing millions to build. That will obviously mean hiked-up prices and even more walking aound trying to find what I need without success. Still, can`t stand in the way of progress !
When I got home and put the shopping away I took Jake for his morning constitutional. I took him in another direction through a part of the town that`s not really very nice. I don`t think I`ll take him that way again. It got me thinking. I`ve lived in this town on and off all of my life and how it`s changed. Even though we have a huge industrial state the town was always clean and relatively quiet, the sort of place where you would want to bring up a family, and despite my own broken family life. I enjoyed my childhood immensely. We would all play in the fields across the road and climb trees and get into all sorts of mischief that the average boy would get into. I didn`t play with girls very often as they always seemed a bit soft and silly to me! But now the town has changed so much. The trees have gone and the fields have been built on. The countryside is now 20 mins, away instead of directly on our doorstep and though where we live is not bad at all. Soon it will all be gone and the surviving fields, though privately owned by an Equestrian Centre and populated by horses will probably be sold off for more houses. Like I said before you can`t stand in the way of progress, but is all progress good ? That is the question.
Yesterday , returning from yet another long walk with Jake. I said `hello` to a neighbour. I haven`t spoken to him since he moved in next door-but-one in the summer. He said `hello` back but looked totally suprised at my speaking to him. Then I realised that he didn`t even recognise me as a neighbour ! That is a very sad sign of the times we live in.
MRS ICARUS
I`m not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he`s a total, utter, absolute, Grade `A` pillock.
Carol Ann Duffy
THE HARDSHIP OF ACCOUNTING
Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost
MAN IS DEAR TO MAN
Man is dear to man; the poorest poor
Long for some moments in a weary life
When they can know and feel that they have been
Themselves the fathers and the givers-out
Of some small blessings; have been kind to such
As needed kindness, for the single cause
That we have all of us one common heart.
William Wordsworth
6 comments:
Your Thurday graphic has brightened up a dull, wet and thoroughly miserable day and poetry is icing on the cake. thanks.
Sylvia
No Sandra, progress is not always a good thing. Since we came here in l962 we have seen everything go, woodlands, fields, farms. Every bit of green is swallowed up. So many people have even sold their gardens for development. Our sewerage system is overloaded, our doctors cannot cope, there are no decent local shopping facilities. It is all very depressing. Just recently they pulled down one of the very last of our old houses, a beautiful place with a garden full of fruit trees. They are going to build a dozen houses on it. The world has gone mad!!!! Glad you are feeling better.
I'm so glad you are feeling a bit better about things today
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Glad you are feeling better Sandra :o)
The latest here in Milton Keynes is that they are going to make a beach. Yes, in Milton Keynes. A huge reservoir, with a sandy beach and seaside stalls etc. Hmmm. Progress???
Sara x
Hi Sandra,
Glad you are feeling better. I like progress to a certain extent. When it takes away ALL of our trees, countrysides and beauty, I don't like it. Here in St. Louis they tore down thousands of homes to build a larger airport. The program started 5 years ago (before 9-11), today...they have run out of money...the airport is near shutting down (also because of 9-11)and all those homes were toren down for nothing. It looks like a deserted wasteland of mud. I like to see progress but I don't like to see them waste our country. We had a fine airport. Oh well, I can't do a thing about it though, except vent.
HUGS 2 U dear,
Sharon
Sadly, nothing can stop the onward march of concrete over our once green and pleasant land! And the more crowded we become, the less we know of each other - that's the cruel irony!
David.
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