(Not So) Quiet Reflection

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Fairview Heights Late Afternoon
    Have been avoiding everything Anniversary-related - not deliberately, but in a getting-on-with-stuff sort of way - today. More garden and building maintenance stuff. I have absolutely nothing against Remembrance of the heinous conflicts that inform our present; to forget is folly of the grandest and most dangerous order. But, to quote from the Max Hastings piece in today's Times:
    'On May 8, 1945, a young British officer named Christopher Cross wrote home to his parents from Germany:

                "I suppose I should feel elated, but I feel tired and disgusted. What now, I wonder?"'

    The what now? Where do we go from here? Questions that need, and will be asked after our current lockdown situation is over. But it looks like we could be letting ourselves in for more of the same truth-twisting and history-rewriting blame game. The problem now, as far as the Government is concerned, is that people are 'too willing' to stop work and that we have become 'addicted to furlough'. I'll say now that this is as political as this blog will get - I've tried to use my writing here to put a bit of 'air' between us and the situation - but these responses from the chair of the bloody 1922 committee and Rishi Sunak, and the fact that 'Boris Johnson [is] reported as being surprised by the number of people not going to work' - as if he's bloody turned in himself very often since this all started - words fail. We don't really do guns (much) in this country, but cudgels and pitchforks will suffice in the next Peasants' Revolt.
    Normal service will be resumed when I've calmed down. This was meant to be a piece about the meditative qualities of dry-stone walling.
   

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