My
third week out of hospital and my first walks outside the house and my first
trips to the local shops in the car!
It
is a sign of how limiting the thrombosis and embolism are that such ‘easy’
actions I now regard as worthy of note.
Yesterday, with all the confidence of an idiot, I did rather too much
and today I am aware that I did so. I
cannot say, in all truthfulness that I am actually suffering, but I am sitting
down and biding my time before another foray into the lairs of commercialism!
I
have not been idle in these last few weeks and have been working on the notes
that I made during my stay in hospital and have worked them up into a series of
poems that are part of my new chapbook called, “A Point of Blue”.
This
chapbook comprises not only the dozen or so poems directly related to my stay
(including one about the flowers that I was given!) but also half a dozen prose
pieces to accompany them. I have also
included ‘drawings’ that I did on my reMarkable tablet that may be, “little
more than glorified doodles” but they also, “come as near as I am ever going to
get to some form of non-literary meditation”.
High-sounding words! But this
collection is best described as “a wry mixture of prose poetry and ‘drawings’”
where, in spite of the seriousness of the condition, I am still able to get
some humour out of the situation!
The
chapbook is in process of being published and will have an ISBN number and will
be one sale at €5 in the Euro zone and £5 in the UK.
I am
pleased with how this chapbook has turned out and I am looking forward to
comments about the content!
Next
week will be a significant one for me as I intend to go to the opera. The next opera in my season ticket is Romeo and Juliette by Gounod. I have never seen this opera, although I know
one or two of the arias, and I do not intend to let this opportunity slip! I have book an hotel room for a night in
Barcelona and the walk to the Liceu is very short. We will have to see how it goes. The only problem is that I have to inject
myself at 9.00pm and that might be a little disconcerting for the audience if I
do it during the performance!
Meanwhile
the political situation in Spain becomes ever more murky. On the television today there are scenes of
pensioners throughout the country protesting and demonstrating about the
derisory 0.25% increase – well below the rate of inflation, for yet another
year – while the political fall out from the various corruption trials for
members of the right wing minority government of PP continue to shock.
It
is becoming even clearer that the party is systemically corrupt and the frankly
disgusting antics of the leader of Cs as he expresses his shock and distaste
for the party that his group of sluttish politicos helped elect to government,
masks the fact that the dyed in the wool sheer badness of PP was abundantly
clear to even the most politically inept neophyte when his bunch of
opportunistic riffraff voted for them.
More
and more of the people who are in the courts being processed through the
glacially slow judicial system are singing and implicating all the top echelon
of PP. The latest phase of this farce is
the ex-treasurer of PP (all of the treasurers of PP in the history of the party
have been accused of malpractice – and I’m using that word because they have
not yet been sentenced and put in the prison that they richly deserve) has
given evidence in the Valencia parliament about the funding of a past PP
campaign. As the national treasurer he
has asserted that he no knowledge or control over the finances of the regional
PP in Valencia. In other words, he has
thrown the past PP politicos in Valencia under the proverbial bus and washed
his hands of a responsibility that you might, possibly have expected a national
treasurer to have some knowledge about.
Especially as the campaign was such a major part of the national
campaign and all the political leaders of PP were there to soak up the paid-for
adulation!
In
spite of the overwhelming evidence of corruption, I have no real expectation
that any of the major political characters in PP will resign or have judgements
(official judgements that is, in the court of public opinion they are guilty as
sin!) against them.
But,
as always I live in hope and always believe that justice, will, eventually
triumph.
