Pondering and pottering

Is it weird to take pictures of random people’s houses? On my walks and cycles around Shropshire, I’ve found plenty of houses that I want to live in. However, this is one of my faves from my regular walk. It could be a little cottage in rural France and I think that’s why I love it so much. Walking past it on such warm and beautiful evenings, it almost feels like it could be. I saw the owner outside yesterday and wanted to tell him how much I love his beautiful little house but you never know how folk are going to take these things, so I didn’t. I might do next time.

It’s been a productive day work-wise. I find I’m running out of things to say to people outside of work though, as days now merge into each other without anything significant really happening. I bumped into the Vicar and her husband and Molly on my walk this evening and she was saying the same thing. In phone calls to family, they’ve run out of things to say to each other.

I clapped for the carers (correct day) but spotted that Becky didn’t look very cheerful so popped down for a (socially distanced) chat between our houses. She finds the clapping thing a little strange as well as the new hero status they’ve all been given. She has first hand experience of severe underfunding in the NHS and lack of appreciation for a decade now and so it just stings a bit. I know plenty of people don’t like it when the pandemic is made to be political but the truth is that it is political and the NHS is funded through our taxes. While all the recent giving to ‘charities which support the NHS’ is great, my assumption is that this won’t actually go towards, say, a nurses salary. Before the last election I was adamant that I wanted to vote for a political party who would raise taxes to properly fund our NHS. I’d still choose every single day to take a hit in my take-home salary rather than give a few quid to help prop up a severely underfunded NHS in a global pandemic.

Sorry, I do genuinely try to keep my blip a politics free zone and I know that people will disagree with me but I’m just angry.