Hi Everyone
If you are a long time Rubbish reader you might remember that the Senior Partner was born in the Yorkshire mining village of Bentley in Doncaster. As a child both during and after WW2, on Sundays about once a month we would travel to visit her mother. It was an amazing just over two hour journey in that as we passed through what is now the Peak District National Park we would see no more than five other vehicles and one of those would be a lorry collecting milk from the many farms. Then as we approached the steel city of Sheffield we would be met by up to 300 cyclists escaping for the day from the city. As we passed through the city, the devastation and damage caused by German bombing as they tried to destroy steel production, was all through the city centre. I am telling you all this Rubbish as this week we had a day in Sheffield visiting our granddaughter who is there at the University. As we walked through the city centre I struggled to imagine the roads we travelled through all those years ago as so much has been rebuilt and pedestrianised turning a devastated city into a modern, vibrant city. During our time there I found a really interesting book, where on each page there was a photograph of the wartime city with below, a photograph of the same scene today. That brought all my early memories of the city flooding back. By comparison, only a few stray bombs fell on Stoke on Trent as Adolf was not interested in destroying the teapot, cups and saucer factories. I could not help thinking that Adolf may have got it wrong as destroying the teapot factories might have had a more demoralising effect on the British people than destroying the steelworks. Eighty years on it seems ironic that a city nearly destroyed is now a modern thriving city whilst Teapot City which was left almost unscathed is in desperate need of investment.
One of my long time Rubbish readers telephoned me this week. During our conversation, he suggested that, as I approach middle age, I was becoming grumpy. Questioning may be, cynical yes of course, critical absolutely, but surely not grumpy. The grumpiest man of the week surely goes to Donald as he rages against anybody and everybody. It seems that the process of law in this case has been properly followed and that the verdict of the jury who have patiently listened to all the evidence has to be accepted. Then I read that the evidence was "vague and shaky" and that the appeals would go on long after the election in November. Confused.com? Then I read that Cohen, one of the leading witnesses in the trial is described by Boris as a liar. Coming from Boris that really is rich.
A local lady was walking to work last week when she put an envelope into a council waste bin. Unfortunately, her home address was on the envelope so a few days later she got a letter from the Council saying that she had broken the law and was given a £200 fine. Her husband who was still at home probably finishing his Rice Crispies was also fined £200 and they were warned that non payment would result in the fine being increased to £2500. The lady said that she would rather go to prison than pay the fine. That might be their best course of action as this week judges were told to back away from sending people to prison as they are full. Confused? Me too.
Just a Thought :
I like to tell a joke about homemade bombs, but it always blows up in my face.
The line between an angry young man and a grumpy old man is a fine line.
Dot and I always compromise, I admit that I am wrong and she agrees with me.
Brian
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