Just took the dog for a quick walk. The streets are paved with sweet wrappers Not just wrappers either but whole sweets have just been chucked about. It was probably the same idiot kids who were throwing eggs around but it still p**ses me off.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Just seen on the net... let a red balloon go up into the sky to say you support the firemen at the Grenfell tower scene.
Horses have died swallowing balloons, birds have been tied up in the strings and choked, I think the firemen did an admirable job, but letting off balloons, definitely not.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā
I'm not sure it's bleak - just a trend that relies on human being's flocking instinct.. How many people still watch TV as TV? Do you still watch the TV weather or use and app? Where do you get your news from - does some of it come from here? Is the 9 or 10 o'clock news still a big draw - or do people use Social Media? Do you still read a newspaper - and if soĀ what bias did yours have?
But you and I DON'T have independence of mind - we are all totally susceptible to all the influences that surround us. That's why spin doctors earn so much getting the right reaction from the flock that is called the 'people'. Read a bit of 'Thinking fast and thinking slow' (and do the tests that show how your mind works) and realise what creatures of habit we all are.Ā If you don't think you follow like sheep - look back at old photos - and tell me why you liked those fashions? Was it maybe because you were told to like them by everybody else wearing them? Tattoos... what a fashion that is - but why does virtually everyone now want one? Individual will or just following the flock?
That is why is was so fundamental to eliminate people interfering in elections...a few catch phrases can make all the difference. See how many people now repeat on TV when interviewed '...just get it done..' and '...the people are bored with this'. They TELL you what to think.
That has always been the case - but it is cxhanging. You may not use a phone for anything else but making calls.. but that isn't the trend. People consume more information through mobile sources and computerised kit than TV's and newspapers now. And that situation will not revert back.
Quite a lot of 'normal' activities rely on a willingness to conform - a desire to fit in. Airports as they currently are generally arranged would entirely cease to function if people couldn't be relied upon generally to follow unwritten rules. It's not so much a herd mentality as a sort of non specific obedience. Even someone who has never been to an airport will comply with the system - we look for cues and try to fit in unless someone gives us a very strong reason not to.
It's not always a bad thing, but it can be.Ā
I am conscious all the time of being pushed into conformity from all sorts of directions - from banal - what to wear and what to buy - to fundamental - what to think and what to want from life. It is insidious.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
Have never been conventional but not because I'm a rebel.Ā Just had an unconventional family life which can be hard for a child and teenager but yo get over it.
Being curvaceous and not "shop shaped" I have worn home-made clothes since puberty so colours and patterns have depended on what's available in the fabric stores and pattern books.Ā I have no idea what the latest fashions are and haven't for decades.
I don't read a British newspaper cos the only ones I can get here are day old Telegraph and Mail - quel horreur - so I get my news from the Beeb.Ā You don't have to be very bright to distrust social media as a source of news or other info.Ā Ā I do occaionally read a local daily paper when I'm waiting at the bank or doc's or some such but that's blue moon stuff.Ā Ā Haven't got local TV connected.
I find out what's going on round here by chatting to friends and neighbours and the ladies at Patch and Mosaic class.Ā Ā
I don't own a smartphone and rarely use , or even carry, my mobile phone. I neither have , nor have any desire to have a tattoo. Ā I know virtually no " celebrities" who "star" in tv programmes. IĀ use facebook as it's handy to message my children. I have about 30 "friends" on there, non of whom are my work colleagues. I get adverts from FB for alcoholic drinks , even though I don't drink so they haven't quite got the measure of me yet. I haven't bought a single item of clothing in over 3 years, apart from some half price socks in a closing down sale. As a Scot, I was born cynical. I don't believe a word anyone tells me , without evidence to support it. Clearly I'm just odd, and more than happy to remain odd.
I don't suppose I'm very conventional either, and happy to remain that way. I only have a basic phone as i hate phones of all kinds, although I can see the use of them for all sorts of things. I only use it to text, and mainly to let the girls know I'm ok and vice versa, or to ask daughter to bring home milk/bread/tea etc.Ā
Re clothes buying - I resent these clothing for charity bags constantly being put through my door. Just how big a wardrobe do they think I have? I have emailed all of them to tell them to stop,Ā and that I'd need to start buying clothes in order to fill them, and these bags will end up in landfill. . They often shove two or three through the letterbox.Ā They're no use for the bin as they're full of holes. I keep being promised I'll get no more, but of course I do - one appeared the other day
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've got dumpy sack bags though, from snad/gravel deliveries, and we used to have those for our plastic recycling, so I have several of them. I doubt the bags would take more than a bucketful of leaves either- I used to put stuff out and the things just ripped if you put more than a few items in them.Ā
It's the principle of it more than anything. They often don'tĀ collect them eitherĀ
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Posts
It's not always a bad thing, but it can be.Ā
I am conscious all the time of being pushed into conformity from all sorts of directions - from banal - what to wear and what to buy - to fundamental - what to think and what to want from life. It is insidious.
āIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.āĀ
Being curvaceous and not "shop shaped" I have worn home-made clothes since puberty so colours and patterns have depended on what's available in the fabric stores and pattern books.Ā I have no idea what the latest fashions are and haven't for decades.
I don't read a British newspaper cos the only ones I can get here are day old Telegraph and Mail - quel horreur - so I get my news from the Beeb.Ā You don't have to be very bright to distrust social media as a source of news or other info.Ā Ā I do occaionally read a local daily paper when I'm waiting at the bank or doc's or some such but that's blue moon stuff.Ā Ā Haven't got local TV connected.
I find out what's going on round here by chatting to friends and neighbours and the ladies at Patch and Mosaic class.Ā Ā
Ā Ā
I neither have , nor have any desire to have a tattoo.
Ā I know virtually no " celebrities" who "star" in tv programmes.
IĀ use facebook as it's handy to message my children. I have about 30 "friends" on there, non of whom are my work colleagues.
I get adverts from FB for alcoholic drinks , even though I don't drink so they haven't quite got the measure of me yet.
I haven't bought a single item of clothing in over 3 years, apart from some half price socks in a closing down sale.
As a Scot, I was born cynical. I don't believe a word anyone tells me , without evidence to support it.
Clearly I'm just odd, and more than happy to remain odd.
I only have a basic phone as i hate phones of all kinds, although I can see the use of them for all sorts of things. I only use it to text, and mainly to let the girls know I'm ok and vice versa, or to ask daughter to bring home milk/bread/tea etc.Ā
Re clothes buying - I resent these clothing for charity bags constantly being put through my door. Just how big a wardrobe do they think I have? I have emailed all of them to tell them to stop,Ā and that I'd need to start buying clothes in order to fill them, and these bags will end up in landfill. . They often shove two or three through the letterbox.Ā They're no use for the bin as they're full of holes.
I keep being promised I'll get no more, but of course I do - one appeared the other day
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I doubt the bags would take more than a bucketful of leaves either- I used to put stuff out and the things just ripped if you put more than a few items in them.Ā
It's the principle of it more than anything. They often don'tĀ collect them eitherĀ
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...