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Jenni

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:45pm

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:45pm

Matthew wrote on Sun Jan 24, 2021 1:31pm:

Lovely post, Tony and I think you are up there with us, the intelligent posters on this forum. But, ecology to win over commercialism, that's where you kind of jumped two steps back after taking a step forward. The Customer is king and it's the customer that keeps us all in jobs and how does the ...

...customer do that? - Through money, of course. 

But, keep posting I need some distraction from the guy who recently moved into the holiday home nearby. He drove from the UK. Our roads are dangerous enough at the moment with ice. But, like all true Saxon sons could not not-wash his car this Sunday morning and the downward wash has made a dangerous road even more dangerous and will be for days to come. 

Is this guy (my new neighbour) the new normal we can expect?

Or is it too improper to ask that he doesn't wash his damned BMW in icy conditions?

I need patience - must start reading St-Augustine.

Perhaps  the hose he uses to wash the precious car could suddenly disappear during the night.!!!!!!  You could try asking him to stop, but....................... I fear for the ear bashing you might get.

juanida

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:59pm

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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:59pm

Hi Tony, 

I would like a new world where we all have learned to make do with less and be grateful for the small joys that we have taken so much for granted.   I am sick of so much hate due to race, creed, politics (and of course, brexit) so I should hope that when all this is over, all this negativity might be entirely extinguished for good. 

Unfortunately I doubt that it will.  I see so much selfishness and narcissism  in the world today and unwillingness to sacrifice one person's momentary pleasure for the communal good.  

So many of us have family that we cannot be with and who are growing older and sometimes we wonder if we shall ever see them again.  The new world is not something that I'm going to be around long enough to see, and I'm not entirely sorry. 

Matthew

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:31am

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Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:31am

Jenni wrote on Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:40pm:

Hi Tony from Snowdonia, I bet your cold up there!!!! thank you for your thanks and for posting the very interesting post. Unfortunately people do not like change they are frightened of it, so I would guess that if there was a vote the majority of the population would vote for things to 'go back t...

...o normal'.

God forbid, that it does, why the vastly rich, are sending rockets into space, when they could spend their wealth feed the thousands of people that are starving, people without even the basic's like water. This is madness to me, we need to start looking after the planet, we have done a great job in destroying in, and now we are paying the price. We need not only to respect the planet but also each other.  To go back to 'Normal' would mean, racism, not respecting animals, abuse, wars, greed, I hope we learn from this virus and when we have got it under some sort control we start anew.

 I enjoyed every ones poems, I would like to add my favourite poem.  

I must go down to the sea again

To the lonely Sea and Sky

I left my socks and pants there

I wonder if they're dry.  (the late Spike Milligan) who always managed to see the funny side.

Stay safe all.   Jenni

I've just come back from my daily swim in the Atlantic. There's still some slushy ice on the ground, but the weather forecast is for rain and wind as the day progresses. Throughout my life, there was never a week that I didn't take on the broad sea alone. Over the years some joined me and never a word in anger was shared on that time on the freezing, damp beach.

In the past 18 months we have been joined by the electric eiderdown coat brigade. They show up on the car park and disconnect the wire that heats their coats before looking like Greek gods and goddesses as they flip-flop from their four wheel drives.before spending 25 seconds in the salt spraying water. Us hardened veterans of the waves spend a minimum of 20 minutes swimming towards Devon & Exeter and turning back when we get the first smells of breakfast being cooked there. The beach is not long and has lots of shale although we hardly notice it after years of treading over it in bare feet. 

Occasionally, the wrap-the-eiderdown-around-me-boys stay around for a chat while drinking tea from their ever warm metal flasks. Today was one such day. and we chatted away all the problems of the world, the feral cats of Mojacar, the camper vans on the beach of Palomares and of course Covid-19. "I sez to myself" says Matthew the day cannot get any better especially with all the rugby coming up and just a few minutes ago I read Jenni's "I must go down to the sea again" which made me laugh out loud. I could do with that laugh.

Enjoy the rest of the day, please.

Matt.

Jenni

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:24pm

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Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:24pm

I hope you didn't leave your socks and pants there!!!!! Have a good day

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