A new suspect

 "  Fight, flight or FREEZE ! "   

    Freeze is a new one and possibly the most mundane and suffocating.

A life affirming moment

 

I went for a bike ride along the canal to cheer myself up last week. I was on the look out for young swans as I watched last years grow throughout the year. I was eating and looking down at my phone, and when looking up again this was the wonderful sight I saw. They had just silently crept up on me. It was a profound moment that warmed my heart.

There is a war coming...

 Elon Musk cares more about UK citizens than all our politicians. Following the attempted beheading by stanley knife of an unfortunate man attacked by an African immigrant in Northern Ireland, all we want is someone in power to acknowledge there is a problem here, and take action.

Last week a trial of a Sikh who stabbed a white man to death and claimed he had been racially attacked came to ahead. He went to jail for murder after it was found he was the attacker. Police on the scene didnt believe the white guy when he said he had been stabbed and he died on the floor in hand cuffs. The police automatically believed the Sikh when he claimed racism.

Its getting worse and inaction is throwing fuel on the fire. 

God knows what Americans must think of us.

A politician only does the right thing when they absolutely have no other choice. Strange that.

This fire is hungry. If it could, it would devour all I own on this cold windy summer day.

Thought for the day - Fire does not play by the rules. Anything destructive doesn't either.

Strange name ?

Beauty and the beast ?

I came across this today at a retail village. What are they trying to say ?  The white woman is looking submissive and the black one devilish. Black is on top violating white. This is really bad. Advertisers are not even trying to hide it anymore as they get more and more extreme. 

Ive enjoyed previous Kate Spade adverts. The woman becoming a girl again climbing the tree. Another showing how a book might change your day or send you in a new direction, This is basically demonic. I mean look at the black womans eyes.

 

This is the problem

This sort of thing makes me sick inside. Now sheep wander and its not unheard of for them to stray onto railway lines, often with fatal results, but today someone posted several photos of ours doing so on a facebook page. Suddenly everyone and anyone on the page can see whats happening before you even know. Straying on to a viaduct is extreme though. 

I dont like this modern age when the " night has a thousand eyes " as the song says. Always someone watching. Of course its good to have warnings but I still dont like this. It makes me very uneasy. You can suddenly become the center of attention very quickly without even seeing it coming, say if the train had to be delayed. 

Im jumpy these days about just what might happen. The older I get the more potential trouble I see. It seems to be getting worse and one I know that one day nothing will be doable anymore that once was.  Its inevitable. The more you do the more potential for disaster there is, and if youre dealing with animals you constantly wonder what exactly they might do next.

Im going on holiday this weekend for a week and I need it. Im weary.

 

Ive never heard this said anywhere on the news..

What a perfect storm of disaster.

 

Some odd observations

 Ive had a really good afternoon out at Wray scarecrow festival where people build scarecrows to a different theme every year. Its a spring tradition for me to visit, but this year things got very odd indeed. I always call in at a church that has a  second hand book sale to raise funds. There are a very wide range of books and I expect some are donated by the students of the nearby university, as some are rather niche and academic.

Well this year I found two disturbing books. Two books that I was shocked to find in a church, and nobody seemed care, or notice. The first was a book called The History of Torture ! The second was a book of ritual magick adorned with the painting of a topless well endowed Egyptian woman. I couldnt believe what I was seeing. Had someone placed these books as a joke in the church ? 

The area is close to a place known historically for witchcraft called the Trough of Bowland. Some of the scare crows had a pagan vibe to them I think. A few often depict the Green Man whatever the theme is every year.The village of Wray has many houses built in the 1600's so is seriously old. The stature of the houses is odd and I would say they are uniformly built for much smaller people back then. This is the first year ive noticed this though.

We came across a group of people having a picnic by the river. They were dressed up as semi scarecrows. Not enough to be funny, but just enough to be creepy. People can identify as anything nowadays so I didnt stare too much, as they would probably enjoyed it too much. 

Finally, and this disturbed me the most was just how ill young people looked. The teenagers were so pasty and pale. They looked as though they had spent months indoors away from the sun light. Their skin look thin. People aged up their mid 30's looked so faded, and their skin looked thicker and pock marked or more leathery. Face after face showed the same story. The oldest people looked the healthiest and actually had some colour to them. Many of these people were short and squat and unhealthy looking, waddling as they walked.

Today has been disturbing and I feel we are in a very strange reality now. In fact I am now thinking this all sounds like a Lovecraft story. Either I am going mad or something very disturbing is happening.