Gosh, it has been a week of serious thinking for me. So much to reflect on, get angry about, be pleased with and grateful for. My mind has worked overtime and I have spent a lot of time on social media. I am pleased also to have you to chat to...
Just to get me on track, I will remind you that it was 1st May on Friday. That's International Workers Day. We have all been clapping each Thursday for all our special workers. We need to remember them all year round. I did put up my little red flag…just a limp reflection of my inner strong feelings on that day.
Workers all over the world are struggling, as we are; many with fewer opportunities and far poorer. So, why are we buying PPE kits from China, from Turkey and even from Myanmar! Have we forgotten that these countries need this equipment for their own people? Is it the same old story that, 'If you have the money you can get what you want, without thought for justice!'
Once, and within the life time of many of us, the North West was the centre of the world textile industry. We made all the overalls and aprons ever needed. Friedrich Engels, famed for his book The Condition of the Working Class in England, worked in his father's textile mill in Weaste. Our skyline was crowded with mill chimneys... which have been replaced now by high-rise unaffordable apartments. We have given away our skills again to the profit 'god.'
Once again I have gratefully received gifts, including an enormous cake, which I was able to slice up and pass on; also bananas; good potassium there! Top was a discussion I had with two teenagers who sat on my bench as I leaned from my window. They were inspiring in their enthusiasm for life. They truly added real joy this week, to my lone lockdown state...
See previous posts from Alice In Salford Isolationland…
Part Six - click here
Part Five - click here
Part Four – click here
Part Three – click here
Part Two – click here
Part One – click here
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