So today it snows. The traffic stops. Schools and colleges close. Drama of an everyday kind.
The local paper describes the weather front that brought the snow as 'The Beast from the East'.
It's interesting how the weather can bring everything to a standstill even it seems the Royal Mail, but then I might just not have had any post. I wasn't expecting any, anyway.
Sitting reading the newspaper with a cup of strong, hot coffee, it occurred to me that it's not just the weather.
Imagine if The Beast from the East was isn fact a computer programmer in Uzbekistan, s/he could equally bring everything to a standstill.
From my blogging and emailing to the Governments blogging and emailing to the transfer of funds from the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, traffic lights corrupted, exits opened and entrances closed, presses rolling without paper or ink, life would simply grind to a halt as it has in Syria for a population under constant threat or Palestine, or Lebanon.
So the good news is that the snow will melt. The traffic will flow again. Tomorrows tasks might well be fulfilled, the boiler service asked for in November, scheduled for January then re-scheduled by British Gas for March 1st might hopefully not be re-re-sheduled.
I guess that, for most people, the wonder is that even the grown up newspapers, I read the Guardian and the Financial Times, cannot now find a way of climbing out of the Brexit furrow into which they have dug themselves, as the FT is an international title with a strong presence in the USA, it also ploughs a Trump furrow.
So I find that I have to rely on the social network chatroom that is Facebook in order to discover what and where the real news is.
Surely there is more?
I suspect a conspiracy, but then I always have as far back as my days as an Anarchist in the 1960's, the basic conspiracy is to ensure that people fail to notice what is happening in the real world where people act out their real lives.
Education, arm the schoolteachers cries the President, Employment, there is more and more of it, it's how we escape from poverty, says Mrs May, patently ignoring the type of employment which is leading us into so called self employment, seasonal work, Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon and so forth..
In the 1980's when I became involved in Church Action on Poverty it was frequently said that far to many people 'earned their poverty' that, it seems to me, is even truer today.
So with our sights set firmly on Brexit and the NRA we walk past the homeless as they freeze on our streets, we dismiss the complexity of the Irish Border, we continue to ignore the impact on jobs and livelihoods of leaving the largest trading partner we have and we continue by means, both public, Esther McVey and Ian Duncan Smith or under the radar Philip Hammond and Theresa May to pursue the failed policy of austerity that simply shreds the safety net of the Welfare State leaving the disabled at risk, children in Poverty and the NHS vulnerable to privatisation.
The local paper describes the weather front that brought the snow as 'The Beast from the East'.
It's interesting how the weather can bring everything to a standstill even it seems the Royal Mail, but then I might just not have had any post. I wasn't expecting any, anyway.
Sitting reading the newspaper with a cup of strong, hot coffee, it occurred to me that it's not just the weather.
Imagine if The Beast from the East was isn fact a computer programmer in Uzbekistan, s/he could equally bring everything to a standstill.
From my blogging and emailing to the Governments blogging and emailing to the transfer of funds from the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, traffic lights corrupted, exits opened and entrances closed, presses rolling without paper or ink, life would simply grind to a halt as it has in Syria for a population under constant threat or Palestine, or Lebanon.
So the good news is that the snow will melt. The traffic will flow again. Tomorrows tasks might well be fulfilled, the boiler service asked for in November, scheduled for January then re-scheduled by British Gas for March 1st might hopefully not be re-re-sheduled.
I guess that, for most people, the wonder is that even the grown up newspapers, I read the Guardian and the Financial Times, cannot now find a way of climbing out of the Brexit furrow into which they have dug themselves, as the FT is an international title with a strong presence in the USA, it also ploughs a Trump furrow.
So I find that I have to rely on the social network chatroom that is Facebook in order to discover what and where the real news is.
Surely there is more?
I suspect a conspiracy, but then I always have as far back as my days as an Anarchist in the 1960's, the basic conspiracy is to ensure that people fail to notice what is happening in the real world where people act out their real lives.
Education, arm the schoolteachers cries the President, Employment, there is more and more of it, it's how we escape from poverty, says Mrs May, patently ignoring the type of employment which is leading us into so called self employment, seasonal work, Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon and so forth..
In the 1980's when I became involved in Church Action on Poverty it was frequently said that far to many people 'earned their poverty' that, it seems to me, is even truer today.
So with our sights set firmly on Brexit and the NRA we walk past the homeless as they freeze on our streets, we dismiss the complexity of the Irish Border, we continue to ignore the impact on jobs and livelihoods of leaving the largest trading partner we have and we continue by means, both public, Esther McVey and Ian Duncan Smith or under the radar Philip Hammond and Theresa May to pursue the failed policy of austerity that simply shreds the safety net of the Welfare State leaving the disabled at risk, children in Poverty and the NHS vulnerable to privatisation.
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