This frickin’ laptop broke yesterday. Not a problem with its actual functioning, this time. The lid/screen broke off. YES REALLY! That is a thing that happens!
I need to back up a lot of things, so I thought I might as well post some old photos here. Most of them are VERY old photos, taken from old photo albums.
My very first photograph, taken at age one!
(more…)Ventured outside for supplies. It was very grey and wet. Signs everywhere.
The guy letting people into the supermarket seemed pretty cheerful, but I heard him talking about incidents elsewhere where customers had deliberately spat on staff.
While waiting in the queue a woman came towards it coughing and coughing and coughing. She wasn’t covering her mouth or making any effort at all not to spread her germs. I try not to wish ill on people but my god did I wish ill on her. She was walking alongside a pram which presumably had a baby in it. I can’t even describe the disgust I felt at that moment.
It’s been a bleak day.
Remember how we left the EU on January 31? That night I heard fireworks being let off all over this tiny little suburb.
Many things have changed since then. Now people need the services that can only be provided when the whole world works together. Tonight a special event of sorts was organised: everyone stands outside (far away from others) and applauds the NHS for their hard, life-risking work.
It was a nice idea. In some places they set off fireworks, again.
But here, in this little village, where most of the population are older and vulnerable? No-one seemed to think it was worth lighting fireworks anymore.
In the village today.
There are some promising things too though.
And below is what the local food bank donation station looks like at the moment.
Today there was some rather bleak news regarding a culture of antisemitism at a family member’s workplace. As in, people doing the kinda stuff you would absolutely be fired for if someone found out. (The offenders don’t know my family member actually is part Jewish, and now they never will.) So – yeah, a depressing snapshot of life right now I guess. And that’s without getting into the news headlines from the past two days.
He was a present from my mother-in-law and he’s adorable.
Also that picture was taken at 4:20pm and it was still light outside! Hooray!
Outside, and quite close, people are letting off Brexit fireworks. It’s eleven o’ clock at night, so it will disturb children sleeping, and wake up those multitudes of us who need to work at the weekend. But I don’t think they thought of that.
To drown them out here is a song that was in the news today.
