tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648545.post5820653484895497369..comments2023-10-22T07:42:55.369+00:00Comments on Skip's Acorn Treasury: CountrysideSkiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153208735469088823noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648545.post-19762672835844418052012-01-25T09:51:27.801+00:002012-01-25T09:51:27.801+00:00Since going into the 'Home' my mother'...Since going into the 'Home' my mother's brain has made a return visit and does she give merry hell to anyone who makes a racist remark about her Asian nurses.<br />It's a weird thing to go from having a batty old bag for a mother to someone who has the only functioning brain in a group of 30 batty old bags.JahTehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02007730071564639411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648545.post-57915665993613846272012-01-22T22:52:32.615+00:002012-01-22T22:52:32.615+00:00OK - so you may be getting this post twice. Apolog...OK - so you may be getting this post twice. Apologies if that occurs, it's just that the screen disappeared half way through the verification in my first attempt to comment.<br /><br />In the first instance i'd like to say that i'm not a writer and have some concern that the tone of my comment may not be well conveyed. Indeed i fear that my comment comes with a jovial chuckle at the end.<br /><br />I enjoyed reading your countryside post which contained nothing i don't recognise and which seemed to me to portray truths. However, it made me sad. i love rural living. It is undoubtedly true that the nature of my friendships differs from those i had when i was a city dweller. There my friends and i were like-minded. Here i've formed friends with those with whom i act in common tackling rural poverty in credit unions, combating rural stress and attempting to alleviate mental illness, volunteering in conservation projects. My friends are people with whom i do things, even if we do them for different reasons. If i waited to meet with like-minded people in this rural area i would be very very lonely.<br /><br />I do not think i am unaware of racism here. I'm certainly aware of the pamphlets of weird political groups who have particular views of 'Britishness'. And what makes me angry is that these groups, it seems to me, take opportunities to propogate their views among the disaffected white working class seemingly abandoned by traditional Labour and ripe to be sold a particular construction of 'the problem'. <br /><br />I struggle to comprehend that these groups and their pamphlets don't exist in the cities, such is the extent of their normality here (though they are not without opposition and resistance). Do you think, perhaps, they are a feature of once industrialised (now post industrial?) nothern towns? <br /><br />Anyway, it is as ever, very good to read your work. Thank you.<br /><br />anianihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17577752766205643684noreply@blogger.com