tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342918932024-03-05T05:24:51.738+00:00Cardiff to Catalonia!Having moved from Cardiff: these are the day to day thoughts, enthusiasms and detestations of someone coming to terms with his life in Catalonia and always finding much to wonder at!Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.comBlogger2497125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-59513308022814747272024-02-26T15:21:00.001+00:002024-02-26T15:27:29.000+00:00Program progress!<br /><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;">Let joy be unconfined!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The booklet making program has been successfully installed in my major computer. I would like to say that I was fully in control of the download, and I knew what I was doing. But that would be a lie. I don’t really know what I was hoping for. I think that I was hoping that there should be a sort of sympathetic osmosis, and that the program that I installed in my laptop would gravitate toward installing itself in my upstairs computer and that all things would be well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> But that didn’t happen. I even considered buying another copy of the program because it is so insanely useful for my purposes. But there was always the nagging memory that in part of the documentation that I printed out for the program there was a mention of it being available for six other family members. If that was true, then there must have been some way in which I could have downloaded it onto another of my computers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The problem as I saw it, was that the program interacted with my printer downstairs, and I wanted it to work with the computer upstairs. (And, yes, doesn’t everyone have more than one printer?). But there was no clear indication of how to transfer the program from one machine to another. I even downloaded the receipt from the Apple Store to see if there was some sort of code or registration number that I could use to extend the program to another machine. But there was nothing useful that I could see.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> In a wistful attempt, more to show willing, than to show that I knew anything about how to install the program, I loaded the information about the program and, lo and behold, there in the top right corner was a little download symbol. On which I clicked, and which did as it suggested it might do, and downloaded the program. And it worked.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I have worked with (those last two words are probably only an approximation of professionalism) computers for decades, as I am an enthusiastic early adopter of digital technology. But I cannot say that I know much more about the actual workings of the programs that I use, in the sense of how they have been formulated, than I knew when I started, starry eyed, wondering about the possibilities of what could be achieved with such magical machines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> In the very early days of personal computers, I did waste a great deal of time pretending that I was interested in programming the things before the eventual realization that I was a User (with a capital ‘U’) rather than a programmer. I would have spent the time that I wasted on creating mindlessly simple programs that did nothing far better by paying more detailed attention to what a program could do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> It is a truism, accepted by virtually everyone, that most Users use only a tiny percentage of the capabilities of any program. Time would be more productively spent in learning what a program can do than trying to work out just how it does what it does.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> As I am working on a chapbook of poems at the moment, the importance of the program that is now working in both my computers is that I can complete the whole process of creating of the raw poetic material to the production of a completed chapbook ‘in-house’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> And this new program is even supposed to indicate the optimal spot for the placement of the staples when I have folded it, and it is ready to be assembled!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> This is just one of the multitudes of ‘features’ that the program offers, in a list bewildering in its expansiveness. I will, like most Users, find a simple path to get what I think I want, and then stick to it through thick and thin, not venturing into the rarefied regions of professionalism that the program holds out to the unwary buyers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I wonder if I can get a rebate for only using a tiny percentage of the possibilities. A 50% return on investment might be encouraging. But I know that I will count my blessings and be grateful that I will no longer be hurling vituperative invective at the printer as it fails, yet again, to do what I want it to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> For 22 euros, it is a small price to pay for peace of mind and a clean mouth!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-69255435704446284282024-02-25T20:09:00.001+00:002024-02-25T20:09:06.909+00:00Here we go, again!<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; text-align: justify;">What’s the right time?</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; text-align: justify;">There’s never a ‘right’ time.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> That could be the questioning start of something very serious, but it’s only me, thinking about how to phrase the restart of my blog. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have been woefully remiss in my writing of something that used to take up a part of every day and satisfied that Puritan part of my writing mind that felt that I had to Do Something every day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have written books since the last entry in the Blog, but it doesn’t seem to compensate, in my mind, for the dutiful entry day-by-day that together formed an opinionated diary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I sometimes dip back into the entries and am amazed by how much I have forgotten about so much that I obviously felt so passionately about at the time. At times, I read the entries as if I were a stranger – and very enjoyable they are too, though I am not always in agreement with the person who wrote them!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">One of the reasons that I have been hesitant in putting fingertip to computer key is my feeling that I ought to wait until I had something significant to say before I was able to justify starting up the blog again. But I have concluded that is the wrong approach. Or perhaps the word ‘wrong’ is itself wrong, and I have been using the concept of significance as a way of justifying my inaction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I, more than most, should take my Family Wisdom to heart and recognize that “Anything is better than nothing!” and simply get on with it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And it’s not as if nothing has happened in the intervening years, or however long it has been since I last wrote. But the idea of ‘filling in’ the Lost Years is foreign to the impulse that started the Blog in the first instance. It was to record my move from Cardiff to Catalonia and to note my impressions of the experience of moving from one country to another and to record the differences in day to day living in Catalonia as opposed to living in Cardiff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I have now been living in Castelldefels for years, and it feel like home. Certainly, a recent visit to London for a friend’s ‘significant’ birthday celebrations did not make me homesick, and the weather alone was enough to make me wish to be back by the sea!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, this return is not necessarily to record quaint differences in living styles that mark the differences in Wales and Catalonia that I experience, but rather to provide me with a daily opportunity to indulge my inclination to pontificate and digress.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As a non sequitur to everything that has gone before I would like to indulge myself with a mini rant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As well as being the only teacher I know who has used the OHP (Overhead Projector) throughout his teaching career (from the Training Year to his Retirement) I was also the manic exponent of the booklet approach to dealing with aspects of my subject.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The start of my teaching career pre-dated the use of computers in school and the use of personal computers, and the photocopier and the reproduction of teaching material was difficult, and we used Roneo machines and Stencil machines and all sorts of messy ways of getting our thoughts onto multiple pieces of paper.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The first plain paper copiers revolutionized the whole way of producing teaching material. And I photocopied with a vengeance! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of course, in the early days, the format of a booklet had to be done in rough, each of the A5 pages printed separately and then counted to see how many pages were in the booklet, and then stuck onto the pages of a blank same-sized booklet so that all the pages were in the right order to be photocopied page by page, to make the final finished product. Time intensive, but very satisfying when completed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The computer made things much easier, and when I discovered that the printing program had a ‘booklet’ setting my delight was complete. This setting took a booklet composed on the computer and sorted out the individual pages so that they were printed in the correct order. All you had to do was collate and fold and staple and the job was done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And that was true, right up until the time when the program didn’t work. The instruction is there in the choices you get before you print, but it simply does not do the job. And no one has been able to explain to me why that is. At one time I had experts in Mac, Brother and Word all working at getting the program to work. And they all failed and did not know why they were failing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Usually, I have found a way to getting around the obstacles that the non-working program has put in my way, but, as time goes on, so the program becomes more and more skittish and even the work arounds that I have found which compensate for some its vagaries fail to work themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So, I have bitten the bullet and bought a program specifically designed to work with all the programs that I use to print the damn things. And I resent the fact that I have spent some twenty Euros to do something that used to be bundled with the printer program.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The bought program does work, but my next problem is finding out a way of getting my desktop computer to get the program as well as my laptop. There must be a way of getting more than one of my machines to have the program, but I have yet to find a way to get my other computer to recognize that I have bought the program. Of such concerns are paranoia made!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-31376410588086297752022-10-07T16:03:00.002+01:002022-10-07T16:03:59.832+01:00Obey your technology!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(73, 76, 73); height: 180px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Weather Forecast On Smart Watch Vector Stock Vector (Royalty Free) 1425808499 | Shutterstock" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="426" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTGpFQUVN4XfXHpEOMWU-JFu576V50_hrDoMw&usqp=CAU" width="400" /></div></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">My
new watch even beeped at me to let me know that it thought that there <i>would</i> be
rain later in the morning!<span> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> When you are
stumbling around in the pre-dawn getting read to cycle for the morning swim, a
beeping watch is the last thing that you need, as you mostly rely on automatic
to get you through the quotidian rituals of getting the day going.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>I did however, glance at the watch and a
terse message said, “Expect rain at 8 am” – even poetic in its way.<span> </span>However, I decided to ignore such a warning
and trust to the legendary positive weather conditions of Castelldefels.<span> </span>Sometimes, even when the forecast for the
town says rain, it seems to make an exception for the strip of the town along
the beach and we often stay dry.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Not this time.<span> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> It rained at 8. </span></p><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(96, 42, 58); height: 180px; margin-left: -13px; margin-right: -13px;"><img alt="Potential for flooding as heavy rain continues to drench southwest B.C. | CBC News" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="180" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQANzhRBaOScUgIV670Gk3flOCMXVWjnnEt8A&usqp=CAU" width="271" /></div></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And as I ploughed my way up and down my
gloriously empty lane in the local pool, I heard the tell-tale sound of
globular moisture hitting the retractable roof and, with my surgically altered
eyes, I could make out the running smears of water trickling down the glazing
at the sides of the pool.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Never mind, I told myself, after I’ve
finished my swim there is always the extra time for my tea and sarnie in the cafe, which together with
note writing should ensure that by the time that I am ready to leave the
weather will have cleared up.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Not this time.<span> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> In a rather touching gesture of moderate
futility, I drained the water from the cleft of the saddle and dabbed, mostly
ineffectually, at the rest of the seat in the hope that first rump-contact would not
be totally wet, but just unpleasantly damp.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>And so I made my way home through spiteful
rain that, in spite of the fact that I modified my route back via tree canopied
roads, seemed to find the spaces between the leaves to fall, not so gently, on
me.<span> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> My coat is now hanging on the sheltered line downstairs to
drip dry and my shorts have (bugger the expense!) been put into the tumble
dryer in gloriously damp isolation.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>It is said that the amount of
super-computing power that it devoted to forecasting the weather dwarfs all
other uses.<span> </span>But I still react to
forecasts as if they were based on the “feeling of a bit of seaweed” approach
of the “experts” of my youth, rather than the almost infinitely sophisticated
approach of the present technological day.<span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>I should believe the forecasts because
they are really, generally, correct.<span> </span>I
think that what you might call 'forecasting faith' could be related to an age divide, where people of my baby-boomer generation are <i>still</i> sceptical, whereas those who have
been brought up looking at ever smaller screens for their information now <i>expect</i> the info that they are
given by the Almighty operating systems of their phones to be correct.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="292" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>As a matter of interest, I just asked Google what it based its weather forecasts on and the answer was that it, "takes radar data created by doppler radar stations" </span><span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">and by organizing this data into images and creating a time specific sequence is able to suggest what the weather will be. So there!</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Just staying with temperature, I got to thinking about how much 'faith' I do have in flashing lights and digital information connected to various things that I possess actually telling me the truth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I have never independently verified the set temperature in the fridge for example. I have taken as gospel the temperatures that the machine tells me that my dishes are washed at in the dishwasher; the time that the microwave cooks for; the length of the various washes in the washing machine. Virtuallly the only time that I check my watch is when the BBC News starts, and even that is compromised by the fact that I listen to the BBC on the Internet and I have discovered that there are seconds lagging, between broadcast and my radio making absolute accuracy impossible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I remember, from my teaching days, one supremely irritating child in a 'bottom group' when such things existed (no, hardly a child he was 15 going on 7) who replied to everything I said for almost the whole of a lesson with the single word, "Why?" </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I decided, in the way that you sometimes do, that, instead of losing my temper or ignoring the kid, I would attempt to answer him. And I did. The interchange (if you could call it that because the boy didn't think about any of his responses, which were always "Why?" or consider any of my increasingly philosophical responses) were obviously one-sided, but the rest of the small class appreciated the 'game' and eventually, <i>they</i> called time, to which the kid gave one final "Why?" and laughed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I recall this because it was an example of questioning, mindless questioning perhaps, but it did force me to think while I attempted to answer the continuous drill of "whys?" that was leading to a point of absurdity that I never quite gave into.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> If that experience was essentially arrid, perhaps it should make us think about the way that we too easily accept authority from electronic, inanimate machines functioning on a series of zeros and ones.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> My watch measures and charts my movement and lack of it, my activity, my sleep, my heartbeat and lord alone knows what else. When I go for a bike ride, I can with a few taps bring up a map and trace the route that I have taken, the time it took me to complete it and even the elevation above sea level and the inclines and declines that I navigated.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> My watch and the app that is linked to it have more information about me and the way that my body works and where that body has been, than anyone else in the world - apart of course from the people who can link into the watch or the app and download whatever.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> What prompted these thoughts was that my watch was right about the rain and I was wrong. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Perhaps, in the future should I be more willing to listen to the information that, although presented on one, small, round watchscreen, is actually the visible and tangible sign of an unthinkably powerful information superhighway to which I am linked?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I am no conspiracy theorist, but asking "Why?" might be the really human thing to do.<br /></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="185" /></div><span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Five
years ago, to the day, we were in our local medical centre.<span> </span>Not for any treatment, but rather for Toni to
be able to cast his vote in the referendum about Catalan independence.<span> </span>On that day, we made our way through crowds
of people flocking around the doors of the medical centre and spilling onto the
closed road in front.<span> </span>We walked past
police who were there, but not doing anything positive or negative, merely
being there.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The mood inside the centre was fairly
febrile with the volunteers staffing the voting stations constantly looking
around to see if the police were going to do anything more proactive.<span> </span>The plastic, translucent, ballot boxes were
guarded like precious jewels and were able to be whisked away at a moment’s notice
if it seemed like they were in danger of being impounded by agents of the
Spanish government.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>News about other polling stations filtered
in throughout the day, where the peacefulness of our experience was not matched
by the police violence and thuggery that took place in the name of Spanish democracy!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="300" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The scenes of police aggression against
people peacefully trying to cast a vote was shocking, and as more stories began
to be told about the day, the anger was palpable.<span> </span></span></span><span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">The gleefully heavy-handed ‘policing’ ordered
by the conservative PP (the most corrupt political party in western Europe)
government in Spain, did irreparable harm to the reputation of the government
and the country.<span> </span>And the extended victimization
of the leaders who took part by use of a highly questionable judicial procedure
<i>and</i> blatantly partisan judges did nothing to repair the damage.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>North of the Pyrenees the ‘legal’ ‘justification’
for the prosecution and later condemnation of the leaders of the referendum and
their consequent imprisonment was treated with astonished contempt, and all other
European countries rejected the shaming demands by the Spanish Government for
extradition of the self-exiled leaders of the referendum movement, political
and social.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>In the five years since the referendum was
held, where an overwhelming majority voted in favour of independence, most
people would say that the political situation has worsened, and not just as far
as the question of independence for Catalonia is concerned.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The influence of Vox, the far-right party,
has grown and there are areas of Spain where the far-right is in government,
working with PP to ensure a right-wing majority, or with Vox forming the
largest party in its own right.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Of course, in Catalonia, PP and Vox are
treated with the disgusted contempt that they so richly deserve, with their parliamentary
representation being so small that they do not even have the numbers to form
their own grouping within the Catalan parliament – but nationally, it does look
as though the PP with the help of fascist scum like Vox and an equally
contemptible right-wing party, the C’s, could have a majority in the next
general election for the national parliament and oust the so-called “Socialists”
that are in power at the moment.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Although Catalonia does have a majority of
independence representatives in the Catalan Parliament, the politicos have not
declared independence and have worked with the national government to get the
referendum leaders out of jail and have decided to proceed via negotiation
rather than via confrontation.<span> </span>Which
sounds reasonable enough, until you start looking at the history of the
conflicts between central government in Madrid and the government and people of
Catalonia.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The question of whether there is a
majority in favour of independence in Catalonia is moot.<span> </span>In Catalan parliamentary terms, the majority
is clear; in terms of the general population of Catalonia, the figures are
ambiguous.<span> </span>To which the response might
well be, “Then put the question to a vote!”<span>
</span>A vote that would be accepted by all sides in the argument. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>You have to understand that the “Unity of Spain”
is a concept that is written into the Constitution, and some have suggested
that any vote for independence by Catalonia would have to be open to the whole
of the population of Spain!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>When I was seven or eight years old, my
parents brought me to Spain from Cardiff, for my first foreign holiday, to
Tossa de Mar on the Costa Brava in Catalonia.<span>
</span>Dad took me to the building site that was the Sagrada Familia and explained
to me what the church represented and said, “Catalonia is not Spain!”<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="148" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>It is perhaps significant that behind the
Civic Buildings in the centre of Cardiff there is a memorial </span></span><span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">to the Welshmen
who fought and died in The Spanish Civil War <a href="https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=spanish-civil-war-memorial-cardiff">https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=spanish-civil-war-memorial-cardiff</a>
and some of those names are from the area where my father grew up, he would
have known the families and, although too young to have fought in the Spanish Civil
War, he was of an age to be a member of the armed forces in the Second World
War.<span> </span>The modern story of Spain and its
fight against fascism, and especially the heroic struggle of the Republican
forces centred in Barcelona against Franco was a story with personal links.<span> </span>The miners of South Wales were stalwart
supporters of the Republic, as were many other workers and intellectuals.<span> </span>There is a residual affection for the
national ambitions of Catalonia and a rejection of the subterfuge that has been
used to belittle the valid arguments for statehood.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>But, as always, politics is the art of the
possible, and in the complex games that politicians play, the simple questions
become enmeshed in the rococo frills of self-interested definitions, so that
impetus is lost.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="clear: left; float: left; height: 184px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: -2px;"><img alt="Tricentennial flag (Catalonia, Spain)" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1437" height="184" src="data:image/png;base64,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" width="275" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Catalan politicians make clear statements
calling for independence, </span></span><span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">but their actions are more nuanced and ambiguous –
but the rancour of unfinished business is likely to sour Catalan politics for
some time to come.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">MONDAY
2<sup>nd</sup> October</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">There
seems to be a direct correlation between my buying an uninteresting piece of domestic
hardware via the Internet and then finding a cheaper version on sale in Aldi or
Lidl almost immediately afterwards.<span> </span>This
has happened too often for it to be a mere coincidence, and I begin to suspect
a major conspiracy.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(248, 248, 248); clear: right; float: right; height: 153px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 14px;"><img alt="Are They Always Listening? Amazon Echo and Google Home - Hallsten Innovations" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-iml="1534" height="153" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1qx5x0zj2OO0RliukML0jWa6Ywej-I4lilA&usqp=CAU" width="331" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span><span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Everyone 'knows' that one’s computer and
mobile phone listen to us via voice and keystrokes.<span> </span>How many times have we volubly prevaricated
about cutting the grass or painting the bathroom ceiling with proper anti-mould
paint, to find adverts for mowers, strimmers, paint brushes, paint, and those
little trays for use with rollers suddenly making their way into the feeds for
computer and phone?<span> </span>And bafflingly, if
you do succumb to the purchase of a lawn mower or strimmer, you are assailed by
further adverts urging you to buy another one!<span>
</span>What sort of palatial establishments do Amazon, and their devilish
associates think we live in, where a single mower is wildly inadequate for our
vast lawns?<span> </span>Why waste computing power on
repeat adverts when the product has already been bought?<span> </span>Such things are beyond the imagining of we
mere consumers – perhaps Amazon has a computer-generated list of the things and
the number of those things that we are supposed to possess according to their
relentlessly capitalistic algorithms, and we are kicking against the weight of
untold exabytes of computing power that tell the company what we should have,
irrespective of how we mere flesh-carriers think our possessions should be
ordered!</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I am sure that there is a sci-fi short
story there somewhere - if it hasn’t already been written.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">TUESDAY<span> </span>3<sup>rd</sup> October</span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Today
is the opening performance in the new Opera Season in the Liceu – at least it
is the opening concert in Torn A – the subscription series that I have – though
I don’t think that this is the First Night.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The walk from the car park on the Ramblas
to the Liceu is getting more and more onerous for me, as I hobble along with my
baston and pausing to look into the windows of shops full of tourist crap, as a
way of spacing out the effort to get me there.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I always dress down for the Opera, which
is to say that I wear what I always wear, shorts and a t-shirt, unless the
weather is really cool, in which case I make the concession to dressiness and
sport a pair of jeans.<span> </span>The weather at this
stage of October is still fairly warm, and I type this with the doors to the
balcony open to give a cooling breeze!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="clear: right; float: right; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Don Pasquale - Gran Teatre del Liceu (2022) (Production - Barcelona, spain) | Opera Online - The opera lovers web site" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1093" height="180" 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and, as usual, I have had recourse to my Amanda Holden edited copy of The
Penguin Opera Guide to give me an edge as the absurdities of the piece, but it
is a masterpiece of opera buffa, and a convincingly realistic narrative is not
something that we should expect!</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>And, at the end of the week, another (the
second) of my Saturday afternoon (early evening) concerts in La Palau.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Culture reigns!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</font></style></p>Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-34518652129849614542022-09-29T12:12:00.000+01:002022-09-29T12:12:10.628+01:00Our Lady of the Bright Economic Vision!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(120, 117, 69); height: 223px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa Painting by Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Fine Art America" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-iml="1639" height="737" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSkbQILd7VGbI2BYy0jXKkI8mOxuljbk1AHVA&usqp=CAU" width="456" /></div></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">The
daily temperature graph fluctuates, but its general direction is down.<span> </span>Windows and doors are still open, but the
cloud cover emphasises the cooler temperatures.<span>
</span>At least it is not raining, and I can keep congratulating myself that I
am not in the UK.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Our Prime Minister Without a Popular Mandate
has, at last, come out of hiding and given a few interviews to the local media,
she doesn’t seem ready to take on the nationals with the threat of the Today
Programme on BBC4 a big no, no.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The key element in what Truss said was
that, in spite of virtually all reasonable economic punditry condemning her
reckless gamble on the British Economy, she had to do “what I believe is right”!<span> </span>So, if I understand her correctly, she didn’t
need a budgetary forecast about what she was proposing because that would have
been based on informed projections and facts by proven experts, whereas what she and her wrecking
chancellor were about was more to do with self-justified "belief".</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>So, the lying Northern girl who has
misrepresented her early life of “grinding middle class poverty” and spread her lies
about a “failing school” that somehow managed to get her into Oxford University,
has now reinvented herself as some sort of mystic: Our Lady of the Bright Economic
Vision.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="146" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I imagine her as a grotesque reworking of
Bernini’s sculpture of <i>The Agony of Saint Teresa</i>, lying back clothed in
her carefully selected High Street brands (to demonstrate her un-Rish¡ down-to-earthiness)
framed by strips of the golden wallpaper of her disgraced predecessor torn from the wall, calculating eyes
half-open </span></span><span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">(to note and take advantage of the main photographic chance as it
presents itself) and waiting for the gilt arrow of the <i>Angel of the 1%</i>
to pierce the space where her heart should be so that she can unleash foison on
those that already have.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="125" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>We really shouldn’t be surprised, as it is the same “belief”
that drove forward the absurdity of Brexit and that continues to power its
demented defenders in the face of demonstrable disaster. Brexiteers actively
and robustly excluded so-called experts (Britain, declared Goblin Gove, has “had
enough of experts”) from any consideration of the merits in the discussion for
deciding the most momentous question of the new millennium.<span> </span></span></span><span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">It wasn’t facts, demonstrable facts, that
drove the argument, it was “belief” – and we have seen just how efficacious
that has been in boosting the wealth and reputation of the nation!</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Of course, the most obvious problem with
dealing with someone whose ideas are based on “belief” is that there is no
argument that can win.<span> </span>The ‘facts’ may
line up against the point of view, but all the holder of it has to say is, “But,
I <i>believe</i> differently” and what is there to say to that?</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Belief and prejudice are nearly related,
and while I believe that facts may strengthen “belief” and give it a foundation
in fact so that it is no longer a belief but something approaching a scientific
fact amenable to the ‘scientific method’, I also believe that facts <i>must </i>eventually
defeat prejudice – you will have noted that I have used the dreaded word “believe”
myself!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I suppose when you come down to it, the
way that you think is governed by what you think society is, and what your
response to humanity is.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>If there is one thing that I believe in,
it’s people, working and thinking together.<span>
</span>It is the community, whether it be of science, or economic, or the arts,
or nations, or whatever grouping you like to use to define the mass, that
determine what is true and what is right.<span>
</span>I pop my daily pills, not in the mere <i>belief</i> that they will do me
good, but because the scientific community and the medical establishment have
produced, checked, and authorized their use.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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‘belief’ as an effective tool to part ‘believers’ from their wealth, but I
expect more from my political leaders.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>And that last thought might well be a naïf
belief.<span> </span>But it is one I cling to.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">The
weather cools further: this time I may have the French door open, but I do not
have the small fan on.<span> </span>By such things
one measure the descent to the depths of autumn and on to winter!<span> </span>I am also doing up my coat when I go for my
second bike ride, rather than leaving it unzipped.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>On my bike ride to Gavà on the beach side
paseo, I see more evidence of the removal of the last of the temporary <i>chiringuitos</i>,
a true commercial indication of the changing of the seasons.<span> </span>But, in spite of all these portents, the
weather remains generally fine, and I have not had to take the car to my early morning
swim, so far!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Although my timing for my swim is exact,
the time that I leave for my bike ride to Gavà differs, depending on whether I
have written anything of consequence in my notebook, or if I am engaged in
conversation with people in the café, but seemingly at whatever time I leave,
there are the Unknown Regulars that I pass or am passed by.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The start of Autumn sees the re-emergence
of all the retired folk who have been nudged off their parts of the paseo by
the summer visitors and the kids.<span> </span>Now
that the kids are (mostly) back in school there is a sort of spaciousness to
the beach area which is being reclaimed by those of a certain age.<span> </span>Some of them (us?) are defiant in their
appearance and their actions, relentlessly throwing themselves into the cooling
waters of the Med or parading along the paseo in temperature-ignoring wispy
coverings and pretending that the summer is still with us.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>There are plenty of cyclists, many of whom
are in Lycra and, at first glance, look to be common or garden wearers of that
revealing material, but a more searching look shows that the costumes are
holding the riders together rather than making them more aerodynamic!<span> </span>But that is to be commended.<span> </span>Just as TV series are now ‘colour blind’ when
it comes to casting, so clothing is ‘body-blind’ – you wear what you want and
the fit is what you decide it is, rather than having to make reference to some
sort of unobtainable body-ideal that can only be achieved by self-inflicted
starvation or torture in the gym!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>You can see where this is going.<span> </span>It will end up with my justifying anything in
a <i>reductio ad absurdam</i> that (in spite of the poor Latin) will allow me
to feel smug!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Enough!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">I
find that I am oppressed not by the number of books that I have, but rather their
weight.<span> </span>I have lived with ‘too many
books’ since I was a kid, so that in my smallish bedroom I had to be careful
when I awoke as the shelves on my bedside wall, actually stretched over the bed
itself, so that I slid out of bed rather than rose from it!<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>There was never enough space and gradually
every room in the house became, as my mother would phrase it, “infested” with
books.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The move from Cardiff to Catalonia was
beset with problems because of the number of books that had to be housed (or
flatted) and not all of my prized possessions made it onto new shelves in my
new country, but an inordinate number of IKEA Billy Bookcases later and a
substantial number of the books found a space.<span>
</span>Not that the space was coherent, as the moves from Cardiff, to storage,
to flat, to releasing more storage, to house meant that an overall system was
never really imposed on my books and in the various rooms of the house there
are now what you could describe as “colonies” of like-minded books forming
interesting islands of partial coherence but separate from an over-arching
empire of classification.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I must admit that I have got used to the disparate
nature of my literary holdings and quite enjoy the serendipitous discovery of a
long-lost volume tucked somewhere where it has not logical reason to be.<span> </span>Some of the juxtapositioning of some of my
books simply looks far too contrived to be aleatory, but I assure you that
however pretentious the shelf might look to the outside eye, it is what it is
by luck rather than intention!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The problem that I am presently wrestling
with is to do with the placement of new books.<span>
</span>In spite of the lack of available space, that has in no way hindered my
purchase of new volumes that I “need”.<span>
</span>And sometimes “need” is augmented by “bargain” – in the sense of value
for money.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I try and tell myself that I have no
problem in paying an inordinate amount of money for a decent seat in the Opera,
but I would hesitate to pay the same amount of money for a book.<span> </span>Even though books, I have to admit, have
given me more (if different) pleasure than Opera.<span> </span>I can pay a triple figure sum for a seat for
a momentary experience, but not pay the same amount for something that can give
lasting tangible pleasure.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I am not the sort of person to pay vast
sums of money for a first edition.<span> </span>The
first editions I have were bought because I bought the books when they came out
first.<span> </span>I do have a 1702 edition of
Swift, but that was an unexpected gift and not something that I bought for
myself.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>My problem was that Taschen Books had a
sale.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Taschen Books is an imprint that produces
spectacularly impressive volumes as well as what you might call domestic books,
but their key, or one of their USP is in producing books that are large, opulent,
and very heavy.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>In the on-line sale I bought a number of these
books which, when they were delivered, it was impossible to carry them all upstairs
at the same time.<span> </span>It is also difficult
to hold them and if you rest them on your knees, they crush them.<span> </span>They are ‘table’ books and, when they are
opened up, they need a big table to accommodate them.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>At the moment they form an arty looking
pile by the side of my chair, looking almost like a stage prop of a pile of
large books.<span> </span>The trouble is that I have
nowhere to put them.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>A set of my large art books are in an
extra open section that I have attached to the top of a whole series of Billy
Bookcases.<span> </span>But these books are too big
to fit into those oversized shelves and anyway, the idea of reaching up and
bringing one of them down to reader level without doing irreparable harm to yourself,
or at least breaking an arm or a hand is not to be considered.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Their weight is too great when they are
put on any domestic normal shelf for it to survive.<span> </span>They have to be put at the base of the
bookcase, but it means taking out two shelves to fit them in – and I simply do
not have the room to rearrange without (perish the thought) actually getting
rid of some of my books.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>So, they sit there at the moment, like a
monument, waiting for life to rearrange itself so that they can be enjoyed.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I have spent my life, giving preference to
books, and I am girding my literary loins to Find A Solution.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The books will win.<span> </span>They always win!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">After
a decent early morning swim, a nicely surrealistic accompaniment to my post-swim
cup of tea by sighting a man with a parrot on a collar and lead, arriving to
have a coffee (the man and his lady companion, not the parrot) at an adjacent
table.<span> </span>The white parrot (cockatoo?)
alternated his perch from the man’s shoulder to the top of a free chair, but was
generally unobtrusive, and certainly quiet, though constantly
disconcerting.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I think it was the collar and lead that discomforted
the most but was not enough to distract me from answering Carles’ questions
about English Usage, with which he assaults me most days.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Yesterday, he wanted to know about
expressions of surprise and, knowing his predilection for the archaic (he uses “spiffing”
with relish!) I offered him “Goodness gracious me!” as something suitably outré
in modern use!<span> </span>He had forgotten it by
today, though after a Herculean effort of memory he dredged up the “gracious me”
part.<span> </span>I wonder if it will make it to his
RAM tomorrow!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Today’s Word of the Day was “spoil” and
its use with regard to children (specifically his grandchildren) and to things
in general.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I enjoy our little chats because it keeps
me in touch with my teaching side and, while I do not think that I have the
same agility with explanations that I had when I was in the classroom, it does
make me think to try and find the way to explain things that to a native
English speaker need no explanation.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I hasten to add that these little forays into
education do not, even in the slightest, make me regret my “retired” status
from the teaching profession.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Teachers have my admiration and sympathy,
but not my emulation!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">The
weather is certainly on the change.<span> </span>I
have not only started wearing a short jacket when I set off in the early morning
on my bike to the pool, but also when I go on my extended bike ride to the end
of the Gavà Paseo after my swim.<span> </span>The
days of a t-shirt being adequate for both are now gone, as indeed are the
nights without a sheet and with an open French door.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Although somewhat overcast, there are
intervals of sunshine, and I am still using a small electric fan to keep cool
in my chaotic squalor on the third floor.<span>
</span>There are still times in the mid afternoon when the big fans are needed,
but the weather is decidedly “fresher” which is our euphemism for colder.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>As with the UK, though not in such a
squalidly chaotic way, Spain is dreading the winter with the increases in power
and prices generally.<span> </span>Although the
winter is cold, it is not as bitter as the UK, though central heating and
blankets with a couple of eiderdowns are necessary to get through the colder
snaps.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Castelldefels is a rich little town with a
selection of Russian oligarchs and Barça players living here in multi-million-euro
houses (as well, of course, as we, the genteel poor-ish) so the fear of what
the winter can bring is somewhat modified by the fact that many here are well
able to compensate for the hike in prices and still smile.<span> </span>But, like any sizeable town, you need an army
of lower paid people to keep the place running – and how are they going to
survive?</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>As part of my forced awareness, I am
determined to find out how and what the council is planning to mitigate some of
the deleterious effects of the coming financial hardship.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>From time to time, we have volunteers
stationed at the check-outs of our local supermarkets asking for donations for
Food Banks.<span> </span>I have no idea where these
are situated in our town, and I also don’t know how they are funded.<span> </span>But I am going to find out.<span> </span>And Do Something.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>With my not-fit-for-purpose knees there is
a limit to what unskilled help I can give, but there must be something that I
can do.<span> </span>I am aware that, though I might “preach
poverty” I am comfortably well off compared to many given my status as a Baby
Boomer who got born at the right time for virtually everything!<span> </span>So, even if we have to make some cutbacks in
our expenditure to cover exorbitant fuel bills, there will still be something
left over to help those who are really having to make the decision between
buying food and staying warm.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I suppose that I am writing this down as a
way of forcing myself to do something more than just ruminate.<span> </span>For example, I am sure that my pool would be
more than prepared to collect food for the Food Banks, they have done it
before, and perhaps they might be prepared to do it on a more regular basis
during the winter months.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>Before
I ask anything of institutions and myself, I have to find out just how these
things are organized in Castelldefels and then take it from there.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Responsibility begins at home, and my home
is here.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</font></style></p>Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-11691333600788425912022-09-26T20:04:00.000+01:002022-09-26T20:04:03.127+01:00Schrodinger's Fiesta!<div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 169px; margin-right: -1px; margin-top: 6px;"><img alt="Lao Tzu Quote: “Act without expectation.”" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1050" height="336" 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</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">An odd day
today.<span> An in-between sort of day.<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Although it is a fiesta in Barcelona, it’s
not here in Castelldefels, though there is always a knock-on effect as we get
an influx of day-trippers from the city to swell the areas around the beaches.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>There were fewer in the pool this morning
when it opened, but more of the ‘day-release’ people turned up, just as I was
completing my lengths and exercise.<span> </span>The
bike ride along the paseo of the beaches of Gavà were fuller than a normal
Monday, so I was able to exhibit a bonus grumpiness as the usual suspects
invaded the bike lane, in spite of their being a bike (mine) in it, with the
headlight on!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="300" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I have taken to using the Gavà paseo
because the Castelldefels paseo is now banned to bikes and electric scooters.<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span><span></span></span>There are signs informing people of this ban
at the entrances to the beaches and there are signs repeating the information
attached to lampposts along the paseo, and they are generally ignored.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>There are good, health & safety, logical
reasons for banning bikes on the Castelldefels paseo.<span> </span>There is no dedicated bike lane and cyclists
invariably ignore the very low speed limit that is set (or used to be set) to
use the place.<span> </span>Some cyclists seem to
take a perverse delight in refusing to slow down as they make their way along
the paseo and avoid people by a circus-act-like display of weaving and
jigging.<span> </span>This is obviously dangerous.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>At a certain point the beach paseo narrows,
and the danger to cyclists and pedestrians becomes even more pronounced.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>As we move further into autumn and winter the number of people using the paseo, especially at the time that I used to use
it after my swim, drops.<span> </span>And if there is
empty space then cyclists and electric scooter riders will ignore the rules
even more than the general flouting that happens at the moment.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="151" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>We have parking tickets for spaces on the
sea front and other areas of the city, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span></span>but the machines that dole out these
tickets are closed down for the winter months and you can park wherever you
like (except for high days and holidays) for free.<span> </span>Some spaces in the centre of town are always
paying spaces except for the afternoons, so we have a fairly complex system in
place.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>My point would be, given that we are able
to adapt to complex parking rules, why shouldn’t there be more flexible rules
for bikes?<span> </span>If we can cope with those rules,
then we should surely be able to cope with time limited rules for bikes.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>On the narrower parts of the paseo, I do
think that bikes should be banned totally, but on the other parts I think it is
only sensible to have more reasonable rules.<span>
</span>As the rules stand at present, there is an obvious and blatant rejection,
and there doesn’t seem to be any move to police the rules and make them stick.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Yes, I do feel resentment as I see all the
paseo bike users as I make my way along the (legal) road, but, if people don’t like
the rules and they can see little real justification for them, then those rules
are going to be broken.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>It makes me think of the decorative, picturesque
council laid footpaths that wind around a grassy area, and the unofficial footpaths
that actual feet make as they plot the most direct route.<span> </span>People will do what they think is more logical,
and to hell with routes that looked pretty when drawn on plans.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I remember working, before I went to
College, in the Planning Department of Cardiff City Council and seeing a map of
the city centre showing ‘customer routes’ showing the reality of how people
moved from point A to point B.<span> </span>These
maps showed streets, but they also showed routes through shops, ways of access
that I had previously thought were individual ‘secret’ ways but were obvious
when you needed to imagine a straight line with shops in the way!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>So, people will do what they think is
reasonable.<span> </span>That is until they are
either shown that they are wrong in their assumptions, or that they will be punished
if they do not follow the council’s stated rules.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I am following the rules.<span> </span>I await to see how the council responds to
the breaking of those rules.<span> </span><span> </span>I’m
watching!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">It
says something about the state of my knees that the most productive thing to
come out of my visit to La Palau de la Musica for the first Saturday afternoon
concert of the season was that I have discovered (probably exorbitantly priced)
parking nearer to the concert hall, and I have further discovered the lift that
takes we ‘walking wounded’ to the entrance of the Platea and to my roving seat.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>As I prevaricated for months about whether
or not to buy a season ticket for the concerts, I was unable to get a ‘regular’
seat.<span> </span>For me, the idea seat is on the
centre aisle, but as these are premium places, they go very quickly, so I will
have to be more agile in my book strategy if I decide to go for a season ticket
next year.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>As these Saturday ‘afternoon’ concerts
actually start at 6.30 pm, it means (I hope and trust) that my driving into
Barcelona will miss the evening weekend flow into the city, and I should be
just early enough to get a parking space – and leave before the traffic gets,
um, difficult.<span> </span>Late night driving in a
city like Barcelona, especially in the centre, is not usually a happy
experience!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The concert itself, was a classical
blockbuster with two sure-fire favourites in the programme: Dvorak’s ‘cello concerto
and <i>The New World Symphony</i> – but it also included a piece by <b></b></span></span></p><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><b>Florence Price
</b></span></span></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 180px; margin-left: -1px; margin-right: -3px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><img alt="OPINIÓN #LasMusas / Florence Price, primera afroamericana interpretada por una gran orquesta Revista Ritmo" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1292" height="180" 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width="180" /></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">(1887-1953) a composer who, I am ashamed to admit, was unknown to me.<span> </span>Before the concert started a female member of
the last desk of the first violins came to centre stage and gave an
enthusiastic puff for Price who was not only a(nother) neglected female
composer, but also a black American.<span> </span>She
was the first black American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer and
the first to have her work played by a major orchestra.<span> </span>And I’d never heard of her.<span> </span>Goes to show.</span></p><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Her music was neglected after her death,
and it is only in recent years that her reputation is being re-discovered – as indeed
were a stash of her unpublished scores found in her abandoned summer house!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Her inclusion in a programme with Dvorak is
apt as she was influenced by his music, especially his use of native melodies,
and the <i>Andante Moderato</i> (her orchestrated version of a movement from her
string quartet) stands comparison with the melodic mastery of Dvorak’s work.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="297" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The string section of the Orquestra Simfònica
del Vallès </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span></span>under the direction of Andrés Salado produced a lyrical rendition that
was sensitive, bordering on the reverent, so that the ‘jazzier’ sections seemed
even more exotic.<span> </span>Price is a composer
worth looking into and there is some discography to support the attempt, as
well as some YouTube and miscellaneous information on the web to make the
experience worthwhile.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(50, 53, 120) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 174px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Anastasia Kobekina Cellist - Home | Facebook" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="174" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDNbZeHYQE45oHnrIO5jC1ocuwn61P7dkJ8w&usqp=CAU" width="261" /> </div><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(50, 53, 120) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 174px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The soloist in the Dvorak ‘cello concerto
was Anastasia Kobekina, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span></span>who while looking thoroughly modern did, in some of her
impassioned playing remind me of Augustus John’s <i>Madame Suggia</i> – though Anastasia
was not wearing such an extravagant dress!<span>
</span>But her playing was exceptional and committed.<span> </span>I particularly liked the ‘dialogue’ between
soloist and the leader of the orchestra in the final movement where there seemed
to be an enjoyable and real understanding between the two of them.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The reception that greeted the end of the
concerto was tumultuous, with the audience sounding more like football game crowd
than the genteel enthusiasm I am used to.<span>
</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Perhaps this sort of programming (and
relatively early start) attracts a wider group of people than usual – a large
section of the audience applauded between movements, which suggests that they
are not seasoned classical music concert goers - and that can only be a good
thing.<span> </span>In the Liceu for an Opera
performance the average age of the audience (at least where I am sitting in the
stalls) is even greater than <i>my</i> retired age!<span>
</span>Anything that gets young people and first timers into cultural events
like this is not only a positive, but an essential aspect of allowing this form
of entertainment to continue into the future.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The soloist was brought back a few times
by the strength of the applause and, to the delight of all, the soloist and the
conductor </span></span></p><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 180px; margin-left: -1px; margin-right: -3px;"><img alt="Andrés Salado, nuevo director de la Orquesta de Extremadura | Beckmesser" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1027" height="180" 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and fingers, sitting, and holding it between his knees.<span> </span>The music was a folksy-medieval sort of piece,
and it went down very well, it was cutesy and brilliant with virtuoso playing
by both, and yet at the same time it was somehow intimate.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>All sections of the orchestra were outstanding
in <i>The New World Symphony</i> that ended the concert, though I felt that when the
full orchestra was playing sometimes the sound was more of a block than
detailed, but that may be more to do with the acoustics of the hall than the
playing of the musicians.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>For me the strings and the woodwind
sections were outstanding, but the taut conducting of Salado produced a finale
that was electrifying.<span> </span>And if I thought
that the reception of the soloist was raucous, it had absolutely nothing on the
audience response at the end of the concert, with whoops, yells, whistles, and people
standing to give an ovation that clearly touched conductor and performers.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>This was an exhilarating start to the
season and, with the car parking sorted and the life found, I look forward with
real confidence to a musical year!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There
is always the temptation with a new bit of technical kit, to expect it to do
more than the previous versions of it that one might have possessed.<span> </span>And there is the expectation too that one
will have the technical ability to push the envelope of comfortable achievement
just a little further with something that is bright and new.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>So with my new watch.<span> </span>In spite of the fact that I need it merely to
tell the time and to count the number of lengths that I do in the pool to
ensure that I get to my daily target of 70 and therefore 1,500m , I always hope
that I can get it to do more.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>My relationship with my mobile phone is
one of restriction.<span> </span>Not, you understand
imposed by anyone outside, but by my own limitations in using the device.<span> </span>I use my phone to read The Guardian and the
various volumes on the Kindle app and do my Spanish lessons on the Duolingo
app.<span> </span>And that is basically it.<span> </span>You stand virtually no chance whatsoever of
getting me to respond to virtually any form of communication, unless I am
actually handling the phone at the time of the message.<span> </span>I almost invariably have my phone set to
silent and so phone messages come and go without my noticing them.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>At one time and with a past version of my
present smart phone, I did have, for a limited period some sort of link between
the phone and my watch so that when a message or telephone call occurred, it
sent some sort of message and/or a vibration to the watch that could (on a good
day) alert me to the fact that someone somewhere had tried to make
contact.<span> </span>This brief period of being
‘linked-in’ did not last and I accepted that watch and phone were devices apart
and never the twain should meet in any digital sense.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>With my ‘new’ watch – which I might also
point out is now ‘so last iteration’ as the next model is already being
reviewed in the more salaciously flagrant hi-tec publications in certain parts
of the world – I feel, yet again, emboldened to try and get some sort of link-up so that I can deflect the opprobrium that comes my way when I fail to
respond to emails, telephone calls, or any other form of electronic messaging.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Although, in theory, a great fan of linked-up
electronic devices, in reality I have always been a separates sort of guy, with
each piece of gleaming expense existing in its own little branded bubble of
usefulness, while never quite achieving the connectedness that has been the
vain aim of justifying all the bits and pieces of historical computing that I
have acquired through the years-</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>But this time (he says yet again) this
time will be different and, behold, there will be an efficiency of through
device computing that will link everything in a professional and useful
way.<span> </span>Well, at least I have got Alexa to
work on the phone.<span> </span>Though, when, by way
of experiment, I asked Alexa how she was (I was ever polite, even to the
inanimate) her reply that she was feeling ‘windy’ as so many people had asked
her about ‘farting’ – was something of a surprise, as was also her unsolicited
offer of doing her ‘rapping on farting’ if I so desired!<span> </span>I did not and turned her off.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>It says something for the way that people
are using the pseudo AI of Alexa that a perfectly civil asking after health
gets such a scatological response!<span> </span>What
sort of depraved ‘conversations’ with the poor woman have been taking place for
an ingénue of AI rapport to be so abused?</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>The watch has now beeped, not to
obliterate the racier utterances of Alexa, but to tell me that some twisted
chess grandmaster is prepared to play naked to show that he is not
cheating.<span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>With news like that one almost turns with
relief to the political situation in the UK where the Conservative Party has
gone ‘all out and obvious’ in pandering to its paymasters and is now openly
boosting the wealth of the obscenely rich at the expense of the obscenely
poor.<span> </span>A sort of refreshing honesty from
a party that has previously tried to dress up its class preferences with mealy
mouthed platitudes to try and ensure that the poor people that they are
fleecing to feed the rich will not notice the Tories’ real intentions.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>As my (UK taxed) pension is paid in pounds
sterling and transferred to me here in Catalonia in euros, every fall in the
value of the pound is not a momentary worry about how much spending money you
are going to have on the next holiday, but is rather more ‘here and now’ in the
worry stakes for someone who relies on the cash being sent over to pay for
basic living costs.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>If you are concerned about the cost of
living, you might ask, why buy a new watch, rather than use one of the many
that you have in reserve?<span> </span>Well, you’ve
got me there.<span> </span>But I might point out that
you are questioning a man who went out and bought a couple of new shirts rather
than ironing one of the many clean but creased ones he had waiting to be
attended to.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>I am not sure, exactly, what that little
anecdote is supposed to illustrate, but it does certainly point towards an
attitude to money where reality is only accepted when it bites.<span> </span>Hard.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Now, off to the first concert in the new
season!<span> </span>Make music as the pounds falls! </span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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anticipation of the first in the concert series located in the Palau de la
Musica in Barcelona this Saturday, I have been trying to remember the last
purely orchestral concert rather than an opera, that I have been to, and it is depressingly long ago.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>I do of course listen to music via CDs
(yes, I am still old fashioned enough to use them) and mostly on line.<span> </span>The on-line music is tricky.<span> </span>I refuse to pay for a streaming service,
because I (painstakingly) added most of my CDs to my music library and I was
more than content to meander through versions of the music that I knew than
make do with some un-provenanced rendition of a famous symphony or so.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Some on-line offerings of music are
somewhat like the web sites of information that may look professional but are
actually made by some 14-year-old student in the rural Mid West for a school
project and are heavily reliant on Wikipedia and other questionable
sources.<span> </span>So, you might want to listen to
Beethoven’s Fifth, and find yourself listening to something that sounds as if
it has been recorded in the studio equivalent of a shoe box, or a version of
the symphony which sounds as though it has been transcribed from wax cylinders!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Opera is particularly prone to musical
mischief as you settle down to watch a YouTube ‘full’ performance and rapidly
realize that you are watching something that is only a step above a poor school
production with sound quality to match!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Which is not to say that a live
performance is always the gold standard of listening.<span> </span>I have any number of performances in my
experience when I would have been much better off listening to a recording.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>When a student I vividly remember going to
an orchestral concert in the Glyn Hall in Neath, in South Wales and sitting in
the cheaper (student discount) seats and being horrified during the first piece
because it was as if there was a sonic barrier between our impoverished selves
and the noise that the orchestra was apparently making – I mean we could
actually see the musician moving hands and mouths, but it really wasn’t getting
through to us.<span> </span>I solved that problem by
marching down the length of the hall for the second piece of music and sitting
in a vacant more expensive seat, and considered myself totally justified because,
after all, I had paid to listen to the music, not watch a musicians’ dumb show!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Another time I was given a seat next to
the double basses and the whole of the musical experience of the concert was
filtered through the deep thrum of those instruments.<span> </span>Not something that I would recommend unless
you are a double bass player yourself, and perhaps not even then!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>The number of times that the people at the
side or in front or behind my seat has shown the consideration of louts, by
eating or talking or going on their mobile phone are many – and don’t get me
started on the noisy breathers!<span> </span>One
performance of two of Nielsen’s symphonies was almost destroyed for me by the
gasping difficulty of one man’s breathing that seemed to require emergency
pulmonary treatment rather than live music.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Of course there were other times when the
experience has been magical: string quartets played on a Greek island with
windows and doors open so that the breeze wafted the full length diaphanous
curtains in a gentle material ballet to accompany the music; a London Prom
where you really felt that the people standing with you cared about the music
being played; The Swansea Brangwen Hall organ blaring out in my first hearing
of <i>The Manfred Symphony;</i> a lunchtime concert in Cardiff City Hall and <i>The Firebird Suite</i>; the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra playing <i>The Turangalila Symphony</i>
in St David’s Hall; a performance of Mahler’s First Symphony when I was seated
directly behind the percussion and felt like an assaulted, but excited part of
the performance!<span> </span>Many more positive
experiences than negative.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>With some pieces of music, my attitude is
more like the attitude I have to the performance of Shakespeare plays.<span> </span>I have seen some Shakespeare plays so many
times (including three difference productions of <i>Twelfth Night</i> in a few months)
that I look at them hoping that there will be something original thought
provoking in the production that I can take away, and add to my appreciation of
the play.<span> </span>Sometimes just a moment, or
piece of staging or phrasing of a particular line or lines can be enough to
justify my being a member of the audience and my spending time there.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>With some music I have my preferences as
far as weighting of instruments and tempi are concerned, but I have found in
many compelling performances that a conductor can persuade me to a new way of
listening.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>The main piece in the concert that I am
going to on Saturday is Dvorak’s <i>New World Symphony,</i> a piece of music whose
‘tune’ is so famous that like the “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow” speech
in <i>Macbeth</i> you can almost (and sometimes quite literally) hear the audience
performing it too!<span> </span>There is also a sigh
of happy recognition of 'something we know' that you only get in a live performance.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>The real problem of live performances is
that we members of the audience are spoiled, in so far as we have probably got
to know the individual pieces of music through recordings – and those
recordings are the results of numerous ‘takes’ and of electronic tweaking after
the event, so that what we hear as the final result never happened in real
time.<span> </span>How can a perfectly balanced and
engineered performance complete with a listeners not sitting in the ‘ideal’
spot, on a chair that is not very comfortable and next to people who noisily
exist at the same time as the music!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>I suppose that the point is that each live
performance is unique for everyone.<span> </span>What
I am hearing is not what you, five rows back and to the side are hearing.<span> </span>It is a perspective that I value and
sometimes it is a revelation.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Many times I have gone to a concert at the
end of a working day because I had already bought the ticket as part of my
subscription.<span> </span>I went almost with a sense
of duty, and the thought that I couldn’t waste the cost of the ticket.<span> </span>And I have been blown away by what I have
heard.<span> </span>All tiredness gone in the delight
of music heard afresh.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>It is always worth hoping for revelation,
and when it does happen, well, it justifies one or two duff performances that
one can put down to experience!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>For this concert, my hopes are high!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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- iStock" class="OztcRd "></span><br /></a><span></span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This
morning, while swimming back down the pool, my left hand inadvertently hit the
side of the pool, not hard enough to hurt myself, but hard enough to find the
sweet spot of my smart watch’s screen and crack the face and take a small but
essential chunk out of the strengthened glass.<span>
</span>To be fair to the timepiece, it is still telling the time, but the touch
sensitive quality of the broken screen is not irreparably lost.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>To someone like myself, a noted
<i>relojophile</i> (I think the combination of Spanish and Greek in that neologism is
more than satisfying) a broken watch is not a disaster, it is far more an
opportunity.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>I could, of course, go to my boxed
collection of older watches and choose one (or twenty!) to attach to my wrist,
and there might even be a few rejected smart watches to choose.<span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="clear: left; float: left; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img alt="WTS] Seiko Railroad Approved Quartz 7N43-8A39 A1 : r/Watchexchange" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="false" data-deferred="1" data-iml="2042" height="180" 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width="180" /></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I could also, as I am at the moment,
revert to and wear my ‘emergency’ watch, a Seiko that almost comically ticks
almost all of the boxes for a perfect watch.<span>
</span>The model is a Seiko ‘Rail Road Approved’ smallish white face, with
Arabic numbers, day/date, sweep second hand, luminous hour and minute hands,
waterproof for swimming, and solar charging.<span>
</span>I leave it out on a sunny shelf and it is constantly ready to head
wristward should anything untoward happen to my smart watch of choice: the
Amazfit GTR.</span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>As I said, I do have choices, many
choices, to replace the broken watch, and the replacement was on sale in Amazon
and other outlets for a more than reasonable prime considering what the watch
can actually do.<span> </span>But, as I also said, I
see destruction as a chance to try and better what I had.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>As with smart watches, so with mobile
phones, we seem to have reached a stage in their development where we are asked
to pay more and more for what I seem to remember from painful A Level economics
classes is “eventually diminishing” returns.<span>
</span>The so-called ‘flagship’ phones of all the major brands (including those
who used to be considered budget but excellent value for money) are absurdly
expensive, and if you go to the extent of getting a foldable phone,
astronomically expensive!<span> </span>And, of all
the much-vaunted attributes of the machine, how many are actually used by the individual
purchaser?<span> </span>Like computers and the
programs that we use on them, we (well, I) barely scrape the surface of what
they can do.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>If I am truthful about my smart watch use,
I need the thing to tell the time with an always-on display and count my
lengths while I swim and the distance I go for my morning bike ride after my
swim.<span> </span>And that’s just about it.<span> </span>My simple demands do not, of course, stop me
from pouring over the almost unending list of things that my watch could do if
I understood how to get it to do it.<span> </span>I find
it difficult enough to get my watch to evaluate my exercise before my swim and
then to switch to counting my lengths – something to do with moisture on the
touch sensitive screen, and it’s always touch and go about whether I can make
the thing work.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Informing me about the receipt of emails
and messages, linking to Alexa, storing music, remotely answering my mobile
phone and all the other things that the watch allegedly finds simplicity
itself, become much more complicated when I get my hands on the thing and the
functioning of all these add-ons becomes much more problematical.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>But, with watches, I am an eternal
optimist.<span> </span>I believe in the incrementally
commercially inexorable movement towards horological perfection and that what I
experienced only imperfectly in one iteration of the watch will become sublime
in a later one.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>I suppose that all of the above is going a
long way round the houses to say that instead of using one or other of my
numerous watches to fill the gap left by my broken (but still time telling)
one, I decided after a Nano second’s hesitation to buy new.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>And not only new, but also falling into
the patently obvious manufacturer’s trap of a so-called ‘limited edition’
version of something I could have got cheaper in its un-limited form.<span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>But, I am ashamed (and yet defiant) to
admit, that I was seduced by a bit of bling (it is gold coloured) and by the
fact that it comes in a much nicer and more sophisticated box than the common
or garden version!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Sometimes I surprise even myself by how
gullible I am when confronted by blatant ego flattering commercialism, but, as
I am sure Truss the Heartless Far Right Zealot would assure me, my purchase is
doing its bit to ensure the ‘trickle down’ of wealth!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>For some strange reason that thought does
not<span> </span>comfort me.<span> </span>At all.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
<i>chiringuitos</i> (the pop-up bars and restaurants on the beach) are being
dismantled: the sign that summer is truly over.<span>
</span>We may get an unobstructed view of the sea again, but, that sea will
gradually take on the appearance of a more northerly stretch of water rather
than the twinkling blueness of the Med.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>The sun however, continues to shine,
though I have now taken to wearing a short jacket when I go for my early
morning swim (defiantly un-zippered) but I do not need it (yet) for the return
home.<span> </span>Day by day, the temperatures get
lower, but not low enough for us to dispense with the fans that have been
godsends through the hot summer months.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>I dislike late autumn and winter because I
feel more comfortable in t-shirts and shorts and I prefer the heat.<span> </span>I do not ‘fear’ the winter, as so many of my
fellow citizens both here in Catalonia and Spain and in my home country of
Wales and the UK.<span> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Prices are rising steadily and in some
cases radically and people must, in their own words and their own languages be
echoing the truism of William Micawber, “<span class="hgkelc"><b><span lang="EN">Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen
and six, result happiness. <span>Annual
income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six</span>,
result misery</span></b></span><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN">.”</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>So many (all!) the politicians in
Westminster are at least comfortable in their financial states (unless they
have, like Mr Micawber been feckless beyond) and they can look forward to the
coming months with something approaching complacency – at least as far as their
own personal circumstances are concerned.<span>
</span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"> They have no conception of the true horror of having no money, or being
in debt and having no realistic way of paying essential bills to keep
themselves fed and warm.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>This winter could see obscene numbers of
people experiencing real ‘misery’, of seeing no way out of a situation that is
financially impossible.<span> </span>And, at the same
time seeing the number of millionaires and billionaires expanding exponentially
as circumstances which are crippling middle and lower earners bring a sense of
real desperation to the working of the body politic.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>The last twelve years of vicious Tory
mismanagement have seen a hollowing out of the functions of a caring state,
with yawning gaps in essential provision failing to be filled by the charitable
and voluntary sector.<span> </span>We have food banks
saying that they are not only running out of food to give to those who are
needy, but also they are going to find it difficult or impossible to continue
their work with the ever escalating costs of power, let alone anything else.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>The announcement of The Fiscal Event of
the Tory government to be foisted on us on Friday, reminds me strongly of
Putin’s cruelly euphemistic description of the bloody War in Ukraine (the largest war in
Europe since the end of the Second World War) as a so-called "special military
operation.<span>" </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>Semantics matter.<span> </span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>For Truss calling the <i>mini</i> or <i>emergency</i> or
<i>timely</i> or <i>desperate</i> budget, a "Fiscal Event" allows the government to do without an up-to-date
report from the Office for Budget Responsibility (a parliamentary committee
with a <i>Conservative</i> majority) which would have given an assessment of the
economic consequences of the proposals outlined in it.<span> </span>As apparently, the Fiscal Event is not a
budget, it allows her to escape scrutiny. Again.<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>Truss is developing something of a
reputation for being what That Woman referred to as “frit” when it comes to
putting herself forward to have her views examined.<span> </span>She evaded a full scale, in-depth interview
during her interminable campaign to get the genteel knuckle dragging Tories of
the South East to vote for her, and she seems to be following that obscurantist
trait in her first days in Number 10.<span>
</span>She has been a stalwart member of the "Hide & Silence" brigade and her
disreputably repressive government seems eager to continue on its suppressive
way, as far as possible out of the glare of <i>any</i> hostile scrutiny.</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>Truss, it cannot be emphasised too much,
has a conflicted mandate.<span> </span>She has no
mandate from the public and she was not selected by a majority of Tory MPs.<span> </span>If Johnson drew his cabinet from the dregs of
what was left after he had purged the government of any ‘reasonable’ one-nation
Conservatives, I struggle to find the word for the strained dregs that Truss
used to form hers!</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="hgkelc"><span lang="EN"><span> </span>Look at the holders of the four great
offices of state and weep!</span></span></span></p><div class="isv-r PNCib MSM1fd BUooTd" data-cb="0" data-cl="0" data-cr="6" data-ct="21" data-hveid="CAEQ2gE" data-ictx="1" data-id="U14_cFwkwUXwTM" data-oh="1000" data-os="-2" data-ow="1000" data-ri="3" data-sc="1" data-tbnid="U14_cFwkwUXwTM" data-tw="225" data-ved="2ahUKEwjZvJPv3KX6AhXEgVwKHUGOCykQMygDegUIARDaAQ" style="height: 222px; width: 177px;"><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 180px; margin-right: -3px;"><img alt="Human Eye Crying Tears Flowing Drawing vector de Stock | Adobe Stock" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1807" height="583" 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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Ideologue</span></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> n. An ideologist, especially a particularly
<b>zealous</b> or <b>doctrinaire</b> supporter of an ideology.</span></span></p><br /><br /><span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(16, 10, 3) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 174px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"><img alt="New UK PM should not treat 'being tough on China' as routine: Global Times editorial - Global Times" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="373" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-qsmJ3pBeEOpFBJVA9CWOk__PVVHVj_ujyw&usqp=CAU" width="621" /></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Truss frightens me in a way that her
recent disgraced and failed predecessors did not.<span> </span>Even the liar and narcissist Johnson was
selfishly pragmatic.<span> </span>But Truss, is cut
from an altogether bleaker and colder material.<span>
</span>She is driven by a belief that “Growth At All Costs” is something she is
willing to be “unpopular” for.<span> </span>Her
central article of faith is that giving those who have, even more, will encourage
them to spread their wealth around so that the poorer in society will ultimately
benefit.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The fact that she appears to have a single,
solitary economist to back her up in her steely, gimlet-eyed concentration,
means nothing.<span> </span>The fact that the
President of The United States went out of his way to Twitter that ‘trickle-down
economics has never worked’ means nothing.<span>
</span>Her ‘higher’ truth is The Truth, and It Will Work.<span> </span>The red meat that she threw to the ravening wolves
on the Conservative far right during her interminable election campaign, was
not her politicking and out manoeuvring Rish¡, it was what she really believed,
and now she is going to make it all happen.<span>
</span>Allegedly.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Leading her cabinet, the Truss-faithful
few of the vitiated lees of the Tory Party, she, like some ranting eschatologist,
will lead her people up the mountain of Growth! Growth! Growth! and await The
Rapture of unicorn economics, where all manner of things will be well, and
growth and prosperity will come to all.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><div class="isv-r PNCib MSM1fd BUooTd" data-cb="0" data-cl="0" data-cr="0" data-ct="0" data-hveid="CAEQ6gE" data-ictx="1" data-id="1d1S7-ESUBA3MM" data-oh="800" data-os="-2" data-ow="1200" data-ri="29" data-sc="1" data-tbnid="1d1S7-ESUBA3MM" data-tw="275" data-ved="2ahUKEwjnuoiOlqT6AhXzg84BHYHWCu0QMygdegUIARDqAQ" style="height: 222px; width: 270px;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(249, 252, 249) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 180px;"><img alt="Dizzie Lizzie: the baffling, shapeshifting rise of the politician poised to become Britain's next prime minister" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="368" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRtSECVHuC9nUiqvgiRbRSmdDHHzQdOFpc09w&usqp=CAU" width="553" /></div><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="c7cjWc mvjhOe"></div></a><a class="VFACy kGQAp sMi44c d0NI4c lNHeqe WGvvNb" data-ved="2ahUKEwjnuoiOlqT6AhXzg84BHYHWCu0Qr4kDegUIARDrAQ" href="https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/dizzie-lizzie-the-baffling-shapeshifting-rise-of-the-politician-poised-to-become-britains-next-prime-minister/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="Dizzie Lizzie: the baffling, shapeshifting rise of the politician poised to become Britain's next prime minister"><span aria-label="Dizzie Lizzie: the baffling, shapeshifting rise of the politician poised to become Britain's next prime minister" class="OztcRd "></span></a><span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>She is, quite clearly, demented, and the
twelve-year Tory catalogue of corrupt disasters will continue, and accelerate –
with the taxpayer, as usual, picking up the Tory tab, and the Labour Party
having to sort out the Conservative Crap</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I can now begin to understand something of the gibbering
horror that Tory voters felt when they</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> considered
that someone like Corbyn (many of whose policies I wholeheartedly supported) might
actually become PM, as opposed to a disgusting chancer like Johnson! </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">But Truss, is something different.<span> </span>Something very different.<span> </span>Be afraid.<span>
</span>Be very afraid.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(216, 62, 50) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 180px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Liz Truss -" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="544" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQVm6tRsM946i-R-2R-jK1xGwPrUvHssdEohA&usqp=CAU" width="544" /></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span><span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 13pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</font></style></p>Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-6208022523163776972022-09-19T17:42:00.001+01:002022-09-20T21:06:06.189+01:00The thought was there!<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(208, 202, 74) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 159px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 11px;"><img alt="Republic spain flag stock illustration. Illustration of flag - 217686677" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="412" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVMuxma_yL1IbYsv8U-CYumhVsrAzBkvMc1Q&usqp=CAU" width="536" /></div></a></span> <br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Yesterday
evening, I hung out the flag of the Spanish Republic from the kitchen window
fronting the street and felt that I was prepared for the events of the morrow.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Today, I watched it.<span> </span>The Funeral I mean.<span> </span>In spite of all my protestations about
totally ignoring it. I watched it.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I tried to tell myself that I was watching
it for the music – not an unreasonable excuse – but, alas, not the right
one.<span> </span>Yes, the music was glorious; the
hymns rousing, the older musical items satisfying and the newer ones
stimulating, especially the last choir contribution.<span> </span>But I watched more than would have been
justified by an interest in music.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="299" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Yes, I could tell myself that I did do my
Duolingo Spanish lessons on my mobile phone during the longueurs (the
archbishop’s mini sermon), and I was (I’m ashamed to admit it) mildly surprised
that the new Prime Minister With No Popular Mandate, did not make a complete
pig’s ear of her contribution.<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span><span></span></span>I may be
hopelessly prejudiced (no, wait a minute, ‘prejudice’ is for an attitude not
based on reason and evidence) against her, but she always looks as though she
is sporting a permanent sneer on her ashy face, and nothing she said in the
scriptures appeared to have any bearing on her actual politics or ‘morality’ as
well – but, even I had to admit that she got through her words – and then was
seen no more.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>It was well done.<span> </span>God knows they have had enough time to
prepare for virtually any eventuality, but it still went almost like
clockwork.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>There is a sort of internal logic for
ceremonial that seems to take away rational thought by the observers, and it
becomes an end in itself, and the more you watch the less you think about the
reasons for doing something in the absurdly elaborate way in which it is
realized.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="clear: left; float: left; height: 180px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="10 questions about Queen Elizabeth II's funeral you were too embarrassed to ask - Vox" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1071" height="180" 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width="270" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span><span></span></span>I loved the way that the coffin was
handled.<span> </span>The Bearers Party, looking like
Chocolate Soldiers, doing those little steps and shuffles to ensure that the
coffin was safely transported and placed.<span>
</span>It its own way it was exquisite – something so mechanically complex for
something so basically simple.<span> </span>It was
Baroque (no, Rococo!) rather than De Stijl! </span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="clear: right; float: right; height: 169px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 6px;"><img alt="Watch Queen Elizabeth's funeral procession to Westminster Abbey" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-iml="104289" height="169" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDS62bpxfCK0IpmfW2ofpH4FnKOHV32Xd1Fw&usqp=CAU" width="299" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span><span></span></span>Like the 142 naval ratings drawing Queen Victoria’s
gun carriage: so many questions!<span> </span>Why
142?<span> </span>Why were they there?<span> </span>Why were they dressed in the way they
were?<span> </span>And their little turns and
sidesteps, perfectly co-ordinated and choreographed a military Busby Berkeley! </span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(160, 58, 51) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; clear: right; float: right; height: 184px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 3px;"><img alt="Queen Elizabeth II's funeral: Live updates" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="184" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4bje3ZvLjS6XYPWb18DV8Zz7QushSgmNC7A&usqp=CAU" width="275" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span></span>And ‘choreography’ is the key word, it all
becomes like a sort of dance, with some participants, like the fitter members
of the armed forces able to do the niftier, complex, <span> </span>numbers, but it also about trying to make
allowances for the whole ensemble that included the old, the older, the infirm,
the foreign, the young, the younger, and many precious (in all senses of the
word) individuals, many of whom were not wearing clothing suitable for easy
movement!</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>It went well, and I am glad that I used
the music as an excuse to allow my ‘precious’ self to enjoy a performance well executed.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Of course, that ‘enjoyment’ has nothing to
do with my attitude to the monarchy and my belief that it has no place in a modern
democracy where the key word should be ‘meritocracy’, not ‘hereditary’ and ‘privilege’.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(154, 154, 160) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; clear: right; float: right; height: 102px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 39px;"><img alt="New research reveals extent of Conservative Party's financial reliance on property sector | Transparency International UK" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="102" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQB-bvqXPxyDk4gCENDZuvRTnPlSPoyPCut_w&usqp=CAU" width="359" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Tomorrow, so called normal life resumes
and politics </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span></span>rears its very ugly Conservative head spewing ill-begotten
policies that will have little immediate effect on the real problems of the
majority of the population in the short term, but given another two years of
the Tory poison, is likely to damage our reputation and standard of living for
generations to come.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Today
was the first day back to the local pool and to celebrate I swam 2K.<span> </span>I must admit this was not entirely my
celebratory intention.<span> </span>I take my cue
from a lady who swims in lane 1 on the opposite side of the pool from me.<span> </span>When she does her spaghetti-float exercise, I
know that she is getting to the end of her pool activity and, when she leaves,
I swim an extra six lengths and that usually brings me up to my accustomed 1.5K
– which is enough.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I’m not sure if she was making up for lost
time over the last fortnight, but she swam on for longer than usual and hence I
did a third more than usual.<span> </span>It just made
the cup of tea and baguette in the café afterwards feel all the more merited.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>As I get up at 6.15 am, it means that I
set off in the darkness and dawn comes up nowadays round about 800m or so and,
as it is getting cooler by the day, it also means that the extendible roof
remains closed and therefore we have to wear swimming caps.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I am not totally convinced about the need
for caps, apart from the obvious advantage of keeping hair (from those that
have any) from floating free – and there is little more disturbingly disgusting
than having a loose strand from someone else’s head wrap itself around hand, face,
or most disgustingly mouth!<span> </span>I did once
ask why they were mandatory and was given some sort of explanation about the
concentration of chemicals in an enclosed pool reacting with hair in some way –
a reaction apparently not to be feared in a pool open to the elements.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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width="241" /></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span></span>After
much internal debate, and writing little notes to myself in my notebook, I have
taken the plunge and bought a season ticket for 14 Saturday afternoon concerts
in the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona.<span>
</span>The building is a Modernista masterpiece, and the central glass bulge is
remarkable – but the thing is, I miss purely orchestral concerts.</span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Years ago, I was a season ticket holder,
but then I migrated to the Liceu, and opera and the clashes of dates (and the
money) meant that I had to make a decision and I opted for Opera.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I have rather less money than I had years
ago, but my thinking was more along the lines of “why the hell not” rather than
financial rectitude, and I also told myself that a Saturday (6.30 pm) series of
concerts would never coincide with Opera, which is never, ever on a Saturday
for my season ticket there.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>And the first of the concerts is an all-Dvorak
programme that I can mentally hum along with.<span>
</span>What’s not to like?</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">It
says something for my state of underwhelmed-ness about the new Amazon Prime
Series <i>The Rings of Power,</i> that I have not bothered to watch the latest
episode, which was released last Friday.<span>
</span>The idea of my ignoring something that plays to all my sci-fi fantasy
weaknesses, does not say a lot for its impact!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I am more even more disappointed because I
read previews by trusted critics like Bradshaw in The Guardian which were so
enthusiastic that I watched the pedestrian opening episode with an avidity that
was soon rapidly dwindling to disinterest, bordering on boredom.<span> </span>I’ve now reached episode three and I am still
not engaged, in the way that the books or films of <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>
or <i>The Hobbit</i> captured my reading and watching dedication.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span><i>The Silmarillion</i> on which the new
series is loosely based, I found unreadable in its book form, and regarded it
as a piece of donnish self-indulgence – as indeed is the series, if you think
about it in terms of the commercial hopes of Amazon who made it!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Yes, of course the look of the series is
spectacular, the landscapes are staggeringly beautiful, and the set piece grandeur
of fantastic civilizations amazing, but then it should look good given how much
cash has been expended on it.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I find little ‘new’ in the series, and the
clunking reveal of ‘random human who turns out to be an unrecognized king” etc
tedious, and a weak re-run (pre-run?) of Aragorn/Strider.<span> </span>I do recognize that the series is a prequel
and that there is a sort of satisfaction in seeing the ancient pre-history of the
more interestingly critical moments in Tolkien’s created world that far better
known, but it does take the sting out of what might happen as we do know how
things eventually turn out, and this series does not have the ‘wow’ factor that
the films had.<span> </span>We have assimilated director
Peter Jackson’s epic visual conception of Tolkien’s world and we now take for
granted visual effects that would once have blown us away.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I will, of course, watch the whole of the
series.<span> </span>And I will maintain my hope that
there will be moments that justify the time I spend watching and the money
burnt to make it!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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have completed my open-air-early-morning-swims.<span>
</span>The fortnight of local pool closure for maintenance is over today, and I
have already checked that the pool will open at the normal times for normal use
from Monday.<span> </span>I have been relatively
lucky with the weather so that I have not had to swim in challenging
circumstances – or cold water, but I still do feel a sense of Mission
Accomplished that I have swum all fourteen days in our community pool.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>One of my lecturers used to swim, every
day of the year, in Swansea Bay.<span> </span>I am
not made of such stern stuff, though I can say that I swam on Christmas Eve off
a beach in Sitges.<span> </span>When I say swam, that
is something of an exaggeration: I immersed myself in the water and immediately
exited the sea.<span> </span>The sunshine that was
streaming down, did not, as I vividly recall seem to have any part in heating
the icy wavelets.<span> </span>There is a fine line
between resolution and stupidity and staying in the water for any longer than I
did would clearly have been an illustration of the latter!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The pool-absence period has jinxed my
writing by changing my routine, and I have only scribbled ‘thoughts’ in my
notebook on a couple of occasions, whereas I always write in it when I am
taking my cup of tea and baguette in the pool café.<span> </span>Have jotted down a few phrases and ideas, but
it remains to be seen if they are actually worth working up into something
real.<span> </span>There again, even ‘failures’ are
interesting, and it is rare that I can’t salvage something from the wreckage of
a poem ‘gone wrong’!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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Opera Season is almost upon us, and I still haven’t decided if I should take
out a ‘Saturday Afternoon Subscription’ to a series of orchestral concerts in
Barcelona.<span> </span>This is an odd hesitation on
my part because I am essentially an orchestral music sort of person, with my
going to Opera being something of an indulgence for me.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>As is usual with any subscription series,
there are some concerts that don’t really appeal, though from past experience,
the concerts with low expectations very often surprise with unexpected
delights.<span> </span>At least that is what I keep
telling myself.<span> </span>And afternoon concerts
mean a Barcelona exit at a reasonable time!<span>
</span>Worth considering.<span> </span>And
going.<span> </span>Perhaps I <i>will</i> buy a
subscription.<span> </span>There you are a decision
made in under one hundred keystrokes!<span> </span>If
only the other things in life were so easy!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Gradually,
but only gradually News is creeping up the screen on my Guardian mobile app, so
that my initial shudder as I am forced to consider (and relish) the length of
the queue to see the coffin of the late Queen is gradually being superseded by
things of somewhat more immediate import, like how we are going to survive the
winter without shedloads of debt.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I realise that Monday will however be a
day swamped by full and exhausting coverage of the Funeral, and I am sure that
I will not be exempt from a full-scale broadcast here in Catalonia.<span> </span>When I fled the UK in the summer of 1981 to
escape the supine coverage of The (first) Marriage of the present King Charles
III, I made the mistake of going to the US of A where, believe it or not, there
was greater coverage of The Marriage in NY than there was in London!<span> </span>I spent my time telling those gushing
Americans who congratulated (!) me on being British and therefore having a
special relationship of with that doomed relationship that I was a Republican –
thought not, I hastened to add a Republican in the American sense!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I sincerely hope that after Monday, things
will get back to some sort of normality where the destructive and vicious policies
(if they are worthy of that epithet) of the Conservative government can be
considered and shown to be the worthless pieces of selfishness that they so
clearly are, to anyone outside the Cult of Neoliberalism!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>If the astonishing dedication of certain
parts of the British population in standing in line for umpteen hours can be
defined as in any way positive, then I suppose I would have to hope that
something of the same dedication is given to the more pressing problems facing the
population that the death of the unelected head of state.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Talking of American Republicans, one
commentator pointed out that the fixation with trying to ban abortion shown by
many on the right demonstrates a concern for the unborn baby right up until it
is actually born, then the anti-abortionists demonstrate not a jot of concern
for the health of mother or baby.<span>
</span>Pro-life seems to be concerned with the unborn, as soon as there is a
live and kicking human being in the world, the concern of those fanatics seems
to fade away.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I only hope that the dedication and
respect that people have clearly shown to a corpse, can be extended to the
living after the Queen has been laid to rest in Windsor.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 174px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: -9px; margin-top: 3px;"><img alt="Biggest ever study of food banks warns use likely to increase | Food banks | The Guardian" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1159" height="329" 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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The number of food banks that a wealthy and
developed country like Great Britain has is a disgrace.<span> </span>Charities that run these food banks have
pointed out that with rising prices they are not going to be able to cope with
rising demand.<span> </span>The Tory government has
systematically de-funded social services, so that the winter of 2022-2023 is
going to be one of deprivation and distress.<span>
</span>I hope that the spirit that drove so many people to give up their time
to wait in a queue will recognize that there is another pressing reason for
them to devote themselves to a higher and living cause.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Support your local food bank or volunteer
if you can!<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>If everyone gave the time that they spent queueing
or gave the equivalent amount that their time was worth in a donation to the
food banks, then I would commend their concern.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</font></style></p>Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-37631001076515600842022-09-16T16:30:00.001+01:002022-09-16T16:30:42.075+01:00What really makes sense nowadays?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(61, 176, 208) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 169px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 6px;"><img alt="The benefits of Swimming on Mental and Physical well being - Torfaen Dolphins - Torfaen Dolphins" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="351" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRgvELI2LVcDaAe7QsdWw418eX0X73zP24bA&usqp=CAU" width="623" /></div></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Twelve
days early morning swimming in the outdoor community pool! <span> </span>Only two days to go before my local indoor
pool reopens after the yearly fortnight maintenance closure.<span> </span>Considering I was contemplating paying to use
the Gavá pool, I’m quids in!<span> </span>But it will
be a relief to get back to my normal routine on Monday of next week</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>In spite of the fact that I have given
myself an extra hour or so in bed, to allow the sun to rise before I immerse
myself in the chilly waters, I can’t say that I have benefited from the
lie-in.<span> </span>My body clock will not be denied,
and I continue to wake up as if my swim was at 7 am, and any bedtime after my
inexorable early rising time, is forced rather than easy and so, in the scheme
of things, doesn’t really count.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Apart from two startled Dutch strangers, I
have swum alone since a week last Monday, and those interlopers were obviously
just proving they had access to everything, as you do when you have just
arrived for your holiday and feel that you must use all the facilities at once
to get value for money!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I would like to report that my lonely
circling of the pool allowed my mind to drift into poetic reveries and that I, immediately
on exiting the pool, rushed to my notebook, and wrote out my exquisite thoughts
before they evaporated like the water on my skin.<span> </span>Alas!<span>
</span>Not so!<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The only time an image suggested itself
was when, this morning, I (grudgingly) swum in the aftermath of a short, quasi,
sun-shower, and the drips from the overarching pine trees produced little,
short-lived bubbles on the surface of the pool.<span>
</span>Even then, when I did get out, writing in my notebook was not the first
thing I did, and you might say that noting that omission is my way of
encouraging myself to get on with it and at least jot down the phrases that
(while swimming at least) seemed to have some poetic legs!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I have also written nothing ‘poetic’ about
the “collective hysteria” (one cousin) that has prompted actions like the
laying of flowers (another cousin) to mark the death of QEII.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 169px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 6px;"><img alt="Llandaff Cathedral • A focus of pilgrimage and spirituality • Visit Cardiff" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1142" height="333" 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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The royal circus has now reached Wales,
and there is a service in Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff and then a meeting in the
Senedd.<span> </span>Welsh First Minister Drakeford
has made it clear that protest by anti-royalists is something that must be
allowed and has suggested that the South Wales Police will be appreciative of
that right.<span> </span>We’ll see how that goes.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Memories of my first and only trip to
Mexico came back to mind when hearing about The Queue – it surely deserves the
capital letter as it has become a defining aspect of The British
Character.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Our arrival in Mexico for holiday after a
very long and excruciatingly uncomfortable sardine-flight was just the prelude
to a series of what I can only describe as humiliations.<span> </span>We had to queue to get inside the airport,
then queue to join a queue for customs, and then further queue to get through the
various obstacles that Mexican bureaucracy provided before we were finally
allowed to enter the country.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Now, from the comfort of my own armchair
in Catalonia, I can watch a similar queueing quandary as the Main Queue for the
lying-in-state has been (allegedly) closed because the maximum length has been
reached, but people undeterred by the eleven-hour wait, have taken it upon
themselves to unofficially queue in a park to wait to join the official queue!
This is tantamount to insanity.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 169px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 6px;"><img alt="May's plan for a Brexit festival flops on social media | CNN" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1088" height="323" 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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I am reminded also of a story I heard
about The Festival of Britain in 1951.<span>
</span>Although the war ended in 1945, rationing would not end until 1954, so
the futuristic architecture, plate glass and colour of The Festival of Britain
was something extraordinary.<span> </span>It was a
very popular exhibition, a statement of determination and optimism in the
somewhat dreary post-war years and intended to be a “Tonic to the Nation!”<span> </span>In total over eight million people visited
the main exhibition site on the South Bank of the Thames, and I have been told
that people were employed to go around the site and break up queues that had
formed spontaneously.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Giving rationing and the scarcity of so
much just after the war, people were used to queueing, and once a queue formed,
it developed its own integrity with the people at the head of the queue
thinking that there must be something worth waiting for because there were
people behind them, and the people behind them assuming the same things given
the people in front!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I would, of course, maintain that both the
queue for the late Queen and also the phantom queues of The Festival of Britain
are alike in having no ‘real’ end destination.<span>
</span>I know that there is the viewing of a coffin on a catafalque in an
ancient hammer-beam roofed hall, and there is always an off-chance of seeing a
prince or two or the changing of the guard to justify the wait, but essentially
the whole thing is a nothing.<span> </span>It is a
celebration of absence, of a distant unknowable entity now gone.<span> </span>It is a fantasy of historicism and of
significance, it is an illusion tyring to pretend to be something real.<span> </span>But it’s not, no matter how many people emote
when they see the symbols and think that they are participating. They are as
deluded as those people queuing for nothing on The South Bank in 1951, and
ironically in 2022 they are back queueing on The South Bank again.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Where are the people to break up this
queue and say, “Move on, there’s nothing to see here!”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">What
would I wait in a three-mile queue for?</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>This is one of the emptiest parlour games
ever invented, because the answer is ‘absolutely nothing’!<span> </span>OK, you can re-work things and say that if it
was a matter of life and death, or that there were untold riches at the end of
the wait for the taking, but for anything else?<span>
</span>No, I can think of nothing.<span> </span>At
least nothing real and achievable!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>And yet, thousands, tens – no, hundreds of
thousands of my fellow countrymen, with a sprinkling of foreigners, are joining
the queue to file past the coffin of a ninety-six-year-old woman.<span> </span>A woman with no real accomplishments to her
name, apart from her longevity and an ability for small talk honed to
perfection over decades of vacuous ‘service’.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(176, 109, 138) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 169px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 6px;"><img alt="Watch: Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state - BBC News" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="333" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOyJeD9OJ-zba5fWxXAWK2LuRHKo4KhT6aEg&usqp=CAU" width="590" /></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span><span></span> </span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">On the other hand, I do understand that
some people feel a real sense of personal loss and that by queueing and paying
their respects they are honouring a debt owed to a lady who devoted herself to
her people,<span> </span>I also understand that
people feel that this moment is an historic one and that they are able to link
themselves to a unique, unrepeatable moment in our national experience by
actually being there.<span> </span>A feeling of
linking oneself to something almost immeasurably greater.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>You can tell that I am going through the
motions and trying to think myself into the position of someone who makes the
decision to queue for perhaps thirty hours for a distanced moment with the
coffined corpse of a dead Queen.<span> </span>And I’m
failing miserably.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 172px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(186, 202, 224) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 169px; margin-left: -5px; margin-right: -6px; margin-top: 2px;"><img alt="Biden and Trump Voters Were Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook – The Markup" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="324" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwV9AIUKIkzKGBoGnnv5SLIkNlvbhgd99iZQ&usqp=CAU" width="576" /></div></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>In the same way I fail to understand the
people who voted for Trump or continue to ‘believe’ the lie of the lost
election; or the people who voted for Johnson and continued to vote for him
long after it was obvious that he was singularly unsuited for any sort of
public service.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I can understand people voting for self-aggrandisement
and voting for the party that seems to offer the best protection for their interests,
no matter how unfair it might be.<span> </span>I
remember I once had a lapel badge that had “VOTE TORY” in the centre, and it
drew quizzical glances because I was not known for my Conservative sympathies!<span> </span>It was only when those surprised people drew
a little closer and saw the writing around the central ‘message’ that things
became clearer: “Young and stupid?<span> </span>Old
and selfish?”<span> </span>A gross simplification I
know, but it does point to lack of education and selfishness at least playing
some part in the way that the great questions of our time have been ‘resolved’!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(224, 77, 70) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 169px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: -8px; margin-top: 6px;"><img alt="Britain's self-harm recession - The New European" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-iml="1896" height="318" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKoHUpZify5YduIiZuh8GZ9MvaGkv0AKUj5w&usqp=CAU" width="564" /></div></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Brexit is the perfect example of how the
same badge could be used and the word “Brexit” substituted for “Tory”!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>But that is not the whole explanation.<span> </span>Decent people voted for Brexit and are still
(in spite of the evidence to the contrary) backing it.<span> </span>I have heard defenders of “the greatest act
of self-harm in our history” passionately asserting that it has worked and that
things are better.<span> </span>And this is not
simply the idiocy of, for example, the Brexit Blinded MP for Dover blaming the
French for taking us at our word and treating us like a ‘third’ country after
we withdrew to become a ‘third’ country – it is more a sort of wilful
determination to make the best of what is having a ‘few teething problems’ but,
as usual, we will pull through: cue, Churchill speeches, rousing music and many
references to the Second World War and the Blitz!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I suppose, when you come down to it, all
forms of policy and government are precarious balancing acts, which only work
because of the faith and belief of the people who are watching and want the act
to work.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Johnson has been the single most
destructive person in recent times to threaten the whole edifice of the Way
Things Are Done by ignoring the “Good Chaps” system of administration, where
leeway is given on the assumption that people will do the right thing, rather
than having to act on a strict system of rules, laws, and regulations to limit
behaviour.<span> </span>The problem is, when you have
a buffoon and narcissist as leader then all those “unwritten” (but powerful)
rules do not exist if they get in his way, and then the whole flummery edifice
comes tumbling down.<span> </span>And even with him
gone the so-called Tory Party <i>de nos jours</i> seems to have deserted any
ethical basis for their action and is blithely following the wrecking strategy
of the former (disgraced) prime minister and using their elected majority to
rewrite or ignore any troubling laws that might get in their way – and they are
supported by?<span> </span>Well, hardly a majority of
the country because they were not elected by a majority after the farce of the
First Past The Post system, we have to regulated democracy into a basic two-party
state – but I am wandering and digressing and allowing my despair about the
present situation in my country to pull my writing into too many directions!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>What I do feel is that this (new prime
minister, new monarch) could be a tipping point, where the tinsel of ceremony which
covers the way that we are governed, begins to be seen as the superficial
window dressing that it is and, as hunger and deprivation begin to hurt swathes
of the population this winter, the people or The People begin to demand that
the government governs for them and not just for the elites.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 183px; margin-top: -1px;"><img alt="File:We Want Justice We Want Change (49970698301).jpg - Wikimedia Commons" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1223" height="455" 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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">“The
Petulant Prince” or “The Cantankerous King”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>It sounds as if it ought to be the title
to one of the fairy stories that Oscar wrote, a seemingly simple tale, told
directly and simply with a poignantly heart-warming moral at the end.<span> <br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>But this is what is laughingly called real
life and though it has a ‘real’ prince, he is not the handsome ingenue all
golden curls and peachy skin, no, this is an ageing man who has endured decades
of being on the side-lines and now can almost feel the impress of the coronation
crown on his head.<span> </span>He’s well past
retirement age and the passions that filled his heir apparent youth, middle age,
and early old age, must now be supressed for the greater good of maintaining
the position of ‘The Firm’ in the public imagination.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>The
image of ‘The Firm’ (a term coined by a man who often unsettled the fantasy of
the importance of the Royal Family himself) is a delicate balancing act to
maintain, and there have had to have been a certain amount of dynastic
acrobatics to keep ‘The Firm’ alive and well.<span>
</span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>Although
The Queen has played her role almost to perfection, in her studied probity,
determined neutrality, and political vacuousness, the same cannot be said for
her children and other members of the wider family. <span> </span>Scandal, corruption, speaking out of turn,
crassness, divorce, fire, and death – the back story of King Charles III is
well worthy of a much saltier series than the reverential TV saga presently working
its way towards the present.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The Transition is a delicate time for any
organization, but much more so for an institution that defies reason, logic,
and democracy, and really needs the political and social version of smoke and
mirrors to justify its existence. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>And what has our Petulant Prince (aka The
Cantankerous King) done to ease the transition from QEII to CIII?<span> </span>Apart from making his every public utterance
sound as if he is auditioning for the Boris Karloff role in something like <i>The
Sombre Crypt</i>, he has shown all too clearly his pettiness.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The YouTube films doing the rounds are concerned
with pens, and the intolerable pressures that such writing implements put on
our new monarch.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The first bout of pen pressure came during
the televised signing of the proclamation of his new position.<span> </span>The proclamation was on a large sheet of
vellum (?) and Charles found that the inkwells were in the way and grimaced and
imperiously tried to wave the thing away with regal hand flips while saying “I
can’t be expected to move the thing!”<span> </span>No
indeed, moving a small piece of desk furniture is obviously a no-no for a man
who has servants to iron shoelaces flat and put toothpaste on his toothbrush!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 180px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="665 imágenes de Leaking pen - Imágenes, fotos y vectores de stock | Shutterstock" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1180" height="333" 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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The signing of the visitors’ book in
Northern Ireland was even worse when, having first written down the wrong date,
he discovered that his pen was leaking.<span>
</span>He did a mini-rampage and swore, “bloody thing!”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>This would all be quite amusing, if such
entitled petulance was not from a man who had just been made head of
state.<span> </span>If he finds it difficult to cope
with a misplaced inkwell and a leaking pen, it really doesn’t say very much for
his future ability to cope with issues that might be of a little more moment!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>But if you could laugh at his various hissy
fits over ink and the way it is applied to surfaces (including his fingers)
there is nothing funny about the story that, while a thanksgiving service for
the Queen was in progress in St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, warnings of redundancy
notices were issued to staff working for the former Prince Charles in Clarence
House.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>While the move from being ‘Prince’ Charles
and the heir to the throne, to being King Charles III would of necessity entail
some movement – physically from Clarence House to Buckingham Palace, and administratively
from Prince to King – the optics of telling staff, some of whom had worked for
the Prince for decades, that their jobs were on the line while a commemorative
service for the Queen was happening and before she had even been buried, was
bad to say the least.<span> </span>Or crass.<span> </span>Or unfeeling.<span>
</span>Or even, un-kingly.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Some people have been quick to defend the
king and make the point that his mother had just died, and he found himself
under great stress, no matter how long he had waited for the moment and how
many plans had been made for a smooth transition.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>And that is the point, plans have been
made for years, every detail has been considered and planned for.<span> </span>The movement of staff, or their replacement,
or amalgamation or whatever must have been planned for, long in advance, so why
the hugger-mugger inept and insensitive speed with which to tell long serving
employees that they were going to be sacked.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>It remains that the public face of the
king is now seen as a that of a petty old man, who demands everything be ‘just
so’ and is enraged when it isn’t.<span> </span>He
could, of course, have turned any slight inconvenience into something of a joke
and passed-off the moment with deft insouciance.<span> </span>But he didn’t.<span> </span>Because he isn’t that sort of man.<span> </span>And, slight though the ink-related issues
might be, the staffing inconsideration is much more worrying.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I think that Charles starts his reign with
an overarching sense of, “it could have been done differently.”</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Perhaps that might just sum him up.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">While
not actually apologising, the commissioner for the Met has issued a statement
emphasising that the police have been reminded that the right to protest exists
and that it is enshrined in law.<span> </span>Is
it?<span> </span>I wonder.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>What are protesters against the unelected
imposition of a head of state like Charles III – not him personally of course
(though there could be valid objections to his assuming the role given his suspect
character) – but to anyone who gets the top job because, solely because, he
happens to be his mother’s eldest son to do?<br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Any attempt by the police to interpret
laws in a way that restricts reasonable freedom of expression is to be
resisted.<span> </span>But how to resist without putting
oneself in the way of considerable danger (both social, political, and legal)
and of being true to the cause that you think is worth speaking out for?</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Some protesters have found a way, by
holding up blank pieces of paper and having a large banner on which nothing is
written.<span> </span>This is a response to the
ill-advised attempt by some hapless policeman to try to arrest someone (in fact
a barrister) in Westminster who had held up a blank sheet of paper and asked what
would have happened if he had written, “Not My King” on it.<span> </span>He was promptly asked for his details which
the barrister refused to give demanding to be told why he was being asked for
them, “Because you said you were going to write stuff on it that may offend
people around the king . . . <span> </span>it may
offend someone.”<span> </span>That sort of response
makes any use of an exclamation mark at the end of that extraordinary
explanation complete redundant – and of course, inadequate.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>“May offend” is an open invitation for its
use being employed to ensure our complete lack of freedom of expression.<span> </span>Yes, at a time of national mourning, it could
be considered crass or bad manners to protest – but being crass and bad
mannered are not criminal offences.<span> </span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> At
this time the police should accommodate protest and not be seen to supress
it.<span> </span>The police are there to protect ordinary
people, they are a non-military force who serve the interests of the general
public, and they should need to be reminded of their status and their duties.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I am the first to admit that the policing
of a public event like the funeral of the Queen, and the gathering of heads of
state concentrating in The Abbey must be a considerable nightmare, and most
people recognize that general safety means that some restriction on freedom of
movement and access must be allowed.<span> </span>But
apart from the family event of the death of a matriarch, it must also be
recognized that the whole concept of the way that this country continues to be
governed is also a discussion that needs to be protected.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>If the police and the government are not
careful then they will have given protesters against the anti-democratic
imposition of a hereditary ruler imposed on them by tradition the simplest of
all protests to show that this is not the way that they wish ruled.<span> </span>All they have to do is hold up
a blank piece of paper.<span> </span>No protest is simpler
to make: no writing or sloganizing necessary; no use of felt tips and paint
brushes, just a simple blankness.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>After the vicious governmental oppression during
and after the 1<sup>st</sup> of October Referendum on Independence in 2017, a
yellow ribbon became a symbol of support (my Christmas tree in 2017 was covered
in them!) and the Spanish government went full paranoid and began banning the
colour yellow wherever they could.<span> </span>So,
if you were wearing a yellow t-shirt you were not allowed to go into a football
match, or enter certain government buildings, in short it became an absurdity,
and the symbol of the yellow ribbon grew and grew.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>If the authorities are not careful, then
the blank sheet of paper could take on a similar significance and become a potent
symbol in its own right.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 181px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: -1px;"><img alt="A blank sheet of paper – Lincoln High School Statesman" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1256" height="351" 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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Were
I unfortunate enough to see Mr Johnson (the disgraced ex-Prime Minister of the
UK) I might opine a comment or twelve, along the lines emphasising his almost
criminal corruption and lying disregard of everyone and everything except for
his worthless self.<span> </span>I would be more than
prepared to explain my assessment to him personally or shout it out as he
walked along.<span> </span>And would I be arrested
for daring to complain about somebody who has taken advantage of the British
people and given such poor value for money as, for example, the new King
Charles III?</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>The stories emerging from the UK of police
action against those who have dared to express opinions contrary to the
unthinking adulation and hagiographical approbation that we are presumably
supposed to be offering uncritically to her late Majesty and his present Royal
Highness are, to put it mildly, worrying.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Some of the comments by those opposing the
continuation of the monarch have, to put it mildly, been somewhat crass.<span> </span>But criminal?<span>
</span>The police are apparently using a new Tory devised bill to extend their
powers and clamp down on fully justified opposition.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>One friend of mine suggested that for
those living in the UK over the period of the funeral and the accession of
Charles III and the sycophantic level of comment from media and The General
Population might now understand for a short period what it is like for people
living in North Korea all the time!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>The death of the Queen and the ceremonial shenanigans
connected with the proclamation of the new king have allowed and continue to
allow the population to take their eye off the main concern of the vast
majority of the population and that is the cost of living crisis and the
degraded level of governmental politics.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>Perhaps by Monday and the funeral over and
done with, the country can go Cold Turkey and wake up to the realities of the
present condition of the country.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span> </span>But I am not confident that this is at all
likely!</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">My
barely restrained frothing at the mouth over what I see as the cringingly
subservient attitude of many of my fellow countrymen to the royal family, to
the past Queen and the present King, are put to shame by some of the well-tempered
and constructive analysis by papers like The Guardian.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>While it is generally clear that most of
these writers regard a hereditary monarch as an aberration in a mature
democracy, a denial of the meritocracy that Britain has paid lip service to for
generations, and a reinforcement of the inequalities that still hinder the
development of the country, they are still able to write with a subtlety and depth
of analysis which brings reason into the argument.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span><span> </span>While I am sure that the republican feelings
in the country are growing year on year, I am also fairly convinced that the
statistics show that a majority of the country would probably support the
continuation of the monarchy if it were ever put to a vote.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>We have to work within the bounds of
reality.<span> </span>Much though I would like to see
the institution of the monarchy abolished, it is unlikely to happen.<span> </span>What is glaring obvious to me is just as
obviously not to a large number of people.<span>
</span>But that is what we have got to work with.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>At this time of National Grief, or however
you define what is going on at the moment with all responses being fuelled by
the unending coverage of the BBC, it is perhaps not the time to call for all
out republicanism!<span> </span>But, at the same
time, this so-called transition period as we move from one long serving monarch
to a new/old king is surely a time for reflection.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>At the moment the political system seems paralyzed
by the concerns for the funeral and succession but as one commentator pointed
out, the poor don’t stop being poor for the days until after the funeral.<span> </span>We need action now.<span> </span>Action on the cost-of-living crisis and some
sort of discussion about the way that we want to see the future of our
political systems develop.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>When Macmillan was asked what the most
difficult problems in government were, he replied, “Events, dear boy, events!”<span> </span>There will always be “events” and there will always
be reasons for inaction and for kicking difficult problems down the road or
into the tall grass of whatever other metaphor you want to use for not doing
something.<span> </span>With people genuinely
concerned about affording food and heat next winter; with a serious war in
Europe; with political division more pronounced each day – they are plenty of
reasons to feel overwhelmed.<span> </span>But I keep
telling myself that the most far-reaching reform of the education system was
developed during the Second World War.<span>
</span>Whatever issues seem overwhelming at the moment, compared with the last
War we are still sitting pretty, and we have more than enough time and space to
consider and debate the future without resorting to panic!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>As guns are fired in salutes; as various
officials read out proclamations; as the stately procession of the coffin of
the Queen makes its progress through the country; as politicians speak to
reassure us of continuity, and as newspapers and the media give worldwide
graphic images of a particular vision of our country, everything appears to be
slipping back into place.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span><i>Plus ça change, plus c’est la même
chose</i>!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"></a></span></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 169px; margin-top: 6px;"><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><img alt="Cold water swimming: Why it's good for your mental and physical health | BBC Science Focus Magazine" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-iml="24383" height="293" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS0co2MW04kWgjNXmSzrpcp9DN8g5l0wU_k6A&usqp=CAU" width="519" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span>On an altogether more mundane note: I have swum earlish-morning in the community pool for a week (or one half) of the period that my regular indoor pool is closed for annual maintainance.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> I can tell that it is getting cooler and the jump into the pool to start my lengths (or circles in this pool) is something of a shock - but not an unbearable one, so I will continue to do it, until the breath is knocked out of my body by my first insertion!</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> My smart watch is set to "Open water swimming" for the pool and seems to take a variable attitude to how far I swim. On the first occasion I felt that I had not done my customary 1,500m, but I was more than prepared to believe my watch rather than my level of breathlessness. Today, the obverse of that occurred and I felt (and believe) that I did far more than my allotted length.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> I miss the ritual of my usual morning swim, where I don't have to wait for a smidgeon of sunshine to make the ordeal a little more bearable! And then there is my tea and baguette in the cafe, that I also miss - but I tell myself that I will be all the more appreciative when I finally return in another seven cold-water days!<br /></span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</font></style></p>Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-5871312342823090492022-09-10T15:08:00.003+01:002022-09-10T15:08:38.087+01:00King Charles III - Act II, The Proclamation<div class="separator"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(153, 156, 153) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 180px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="List of minor characters in the Alice series - Wikipedia" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="539" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSoTlDGvawd-0CsGlPvS7ejAwXzAfo3H0auCw&usqp=CAU" width="440" /></div></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">The
mummery surrounding the succession of the new King continues with the ‘proclamation’
staffed by what appear to be extras from the court of the White Queen in <i>Alice
in Wonderland</i>. <span> </span>The glitteringly archaic heraldic
costumes just add that air of luxurious absurdity to what it, after all, an
absurd custom to match the absurd reality of a seventy year old man given the
throne because he happened to be the first born of a woman whose father was
king because his elder brother had an affair (entirely unreported in the
British newspapers at the time) with an American divorcee, and chose abdication
rather than giving her up.<span> </span>The stuff of
soap operas on daytime television.<span> </span>But,
hey, it’s the way we choose our heads of state in Britain!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I am beginning to wonder if I can keep up
this carping for the whole period of mourning, up to and beyond the
funeral.<span> </span>That was, of course, a
rhetorical question as I have no end of dissatisfaction with the way that things
are happening at the moment.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"></a></span></span></span></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 169px; margin-left: -2px; margin-right: -11px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><img alt="Liz Truss Absolutely out of her Depth, or Stunningly Incompetent? - YouTube" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="894" height="341" 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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The Minority Mandate Prime Minister looks
way out of her depth, politically, socially, and culturally.<span> </span>She is going to be thrust onto the
international stage (admittedly as something of a bit player) in a cast of
characters all of whom have more experience than her at this level.<span> </span>It is as if she has been promoted from spear
carrier to main role and she simply does not have the character or background
to make anything of the dramatic opportunity, which she must see is much more of
a very real threat!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Meanwhile the rest of the world looks on
with amused envy: laughing at the blatant silliness of the ceremonial, but
secretly wishing that their countries could do something like that to add to
the jollity of nations.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I do not dismiss ceremony, it can usefully
add layers of meaning, and be an efficient focus of emotion and awe, I feel
less happy when the ceremonial trappings appear to take on a life of their own
and become the thing that they are supposed to represent, then I am concerned.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The Monarchy is an expensive figurehead
for Britain.<span> </span>Given the way that our
parliamentary democracy works (in spite of the best efforts of Johnson and the
Tories) the Monarch is a cypher.<span> </span>In
theory the Monarch is immensely powerful, but in practice, without the acquiescence
of parliament the Monarch is nothing.<span> </span>A
very, very wealthy nothing, admittedly, but with little command.<span> </span>But the way that we treat this figurehead
with robes, crowns, coaches, servants, soldiers, palaces, castles, particular
forms of address, etc makes the person ‘special’ in a way that no other person in
the country is, no matter how gifted, intelligent, knowledgeable, and rich other
might be.<span> </span>The trappings of the role and
the flummery that goes with it, separates the person from the rest of the
country and gives the Monarch a unique place – irrespective of that individual’s
personal ability, or lack of it.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I recognize that people feel that they are
caught up in an historical moment, a new monarch, the first in 70 years.<span> </span>Although born in the reign of the previous
King I have no recollection of him, and my only early memories are of the late
Queen.<span> </span>When I was a Cub Scout, part of my
oath was, “I promise to do my best, to do my duty to God and the Queen”.<span> </span>QCs, <i>God Save The Queen</i>, <i>Her
Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State</i> on passports, ERII on pillar boxes,
her face on stamps, coins, notes – it is a monumental change as uniforms,
badges, documents, and a way of thinking has to be changed.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>But, as the days of mourning progress and
we work our way to the emotional outpouring of grief that will accompany the magnificence
of the funeral, what we are actually seeing is the ruling class cementing its
advantages, closing ranks to ensure that the <i>status quo</i> is not challenged,
reinforcing the inequality which is exemplified in the very existence of a
Monarch in an advanced democracy and watching and encouraging those who lose
most by this unfair system actively and joyously celebrate their powerlessness!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">Charles
III cannot fail to be an odd king.<span> </span>He is
the oldest heir apparent to finally accede to the throne.<span> </span>He has spent over half a century waiting for
his turn.<span> </span>He has been a controversial figure
and has made his views felt in a plethora of subjects over the years.<span> </span>He has passions and on occasions he has made
his preferences clear and has used his position in the royal family to advance
his agenda.<span> </span>This must all now
change.<span> </span>He is no longer the heir; he is
the Monarch, and he will have to follow the ‘neutrality’ of his mother – or there
will be trouble.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>He made it clear, or at least he suggested
strongly that he has no intention of abdicating and handing the throne on to a
younger generation.<span> </span>Like his mother he
is in the job for life and if he follows her example, he has a couple of
decades on the throne left in him.<span> </span>But
he is coming to the job as an old man, beyond retirement age.<span> </span>He will be dealing with a Government almost
entirely younger than he is, in a country that is overwhelmingly younger than
he is.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>He has a hard job ahead of him and a
lingering fear that the ceremony of accession televised for the first time
today, could also be the last.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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{page:WordSection1;}</font></style>Stephen M Reeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02943925578011656424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34291893.post-5665977412637443812022-09-09T21:14:00.002+01:002022-09-09T21:14:41.690+01:00Royal Excess!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="background: rgb(24, 24, 24) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; height: 194px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: -3px;"><img alt="Vtg. Esco bust - Girl with hands over ears | eBay" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-ils="4" height="502" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcShnD5EuewWfgiqbtS-adW03b2E60RlNw5aDg&usqp=CAU" width="375" /></div></div><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span></span> </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">It
looks as though BBC Radio4 is going to be something of a no-go area for the next
couple of weeks.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The wall-to-wall coverage of the death of
QEII and the subsequent fawning hagiography, where people who barely knew her
regale us with inconsequential anecdotes of the minutiae of royal protocol
allowing them to see, uniquely, the momentary all-too-human interactions of the
real person under the crown. <span> </span>Frankly, they
should have found something better to do than facilitate the beefing up of the repetitive
narrative of a long reign until it becomes an unassailable national myth.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I will be glad when the broadcasters begin
to focus on the logistics of a State Funeral, that will at least give them
something real to concentrate on, rather than scratching around trying to find
something concrete to say about someone who is best known for what bad things she
(as opposed to her dreadful family) hasn’t done rather than achieving something
of moment.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>The high point of nationalistic absurdity came,
courtesy of our (God Help Us!) new Prime Minister who actually said in all
sincerity (in so far as that wooden dummy is able to articulate that quality)
that QEII was, “one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known”!<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Truss does the memory of the late Queen no
service by stating such a ridiculous claim.<span>
</span>Such sycophantic hyperbole tells us more about the vacuity of the
speaker than giving an insight into the character of the Queen.<span> </span>The truly dreadful delivery of Truss’s speech
made it appear as though it had just been thrust into her hands and that she had
to make the best of an impromptu performance as she winged it through the to
the stilted peroration.<span> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Johnson, lurking in full sight on the
back benches, just couldn’t stay away from an occasion to raise his debased
profile, but he must have seethed internally as he saw a golden opportunity for
his particular populist pomposity, thrown away on a ventriloquist’s dummy.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>It is at times like this that I pity John
Crace, The Guardian political sketch writer, who actually has to sit through
and watch the unutterable tedium of politicians scrabbling around for their five
minutes of televisual fame as they mouth yet more platitudes about a person
they hardly knew.<span> </span>John suffers for the
rest of us, and I do look forward to his acerbic take on the sad (in all
senses) spectacle of politicians emoting on a Grand Occasion!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Tomorrow QEII’s coffin will be on the move
and at least we will have a change of scene from damp people laying flowers on
a granite bridge in the Scottish Highlands.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>We were in London during the lying-in-state
of The Queen Mother and the queue to view her coffin, when we passed it on an
open top tour bus, stretched from the south bank over the bridge and into the
distance!<span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Why?<span> </span>This was a woman who was allegedly slighted
by a member of the press umpteen years previously and did not talk to the media
from then on.<span> </span>She was an almost totally
remote figure, who kept herself remote, apart from the hand waving and hat
wearing that is a <i>sine qua non</i> of female royal ‘duty’.<span> </span>And yet, an estimated 200,000 people over
three days queued to see her coffin!<span>
</span>Extraordinary!<span> </span>Why did they do it
and what did they hope to get out of it?</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>I do not for a moment doubt the sincerity
of the grief that many people have expressed, and their sense of loss is palpable,
and I too, am not insensible to the power of symbols – but, for me I look askance
at such public displays of emotion for an unknown, highly privileged,
fabulously rich person who are where they are because of an accident of birth.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><span><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" role="button" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="bRMDJf islir" style="height: 180px; margin-left: -8px; margin-right: -9px;"><img alt="El escritor Salman Rushdie, más de tres décadas temiendo por su vida" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="893" height="383" 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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;">I feel infinitely more concerned for the
well-being of Salman Rushdie who has solid achievements to his name, than I do
for the well-being of any member of the so-called House of Windsor.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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I certainly look forward to the day when their personification of the built-in,
hereditary, inequality in Britain is finally broken.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria",serif;"><span> </span>Like Truss, a Prime Minister ‘elected’ by
a tiny minority of the population, and Charles III who is king and head of
state because his mother has died, both are emphatically Not In My Name!</span></span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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