Why not look in on Lucy this week? She’s at http://lucymelford.blogspot.com/
Shirley Anne
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Another blog for this week, Lucy
Posted by Shirley Anne on February 8, 2012
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This week’s featured blog, Jenny
Posted by Shirley Anne on February 1, 2012
This week I invite my readers to visit Jenny’s blog http://jennyalto.blogspot.com/
Shirley Anne
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Make someone happy
Posted by Shirley Anne on January 30, 2012
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Sounds easy doesn’t it? I want to challenge my readers to make someone happy this week, someone who perhaps isn’t close to you or someone who comes into your life for whatever reason. Some of my readers will be doing this already and probably without thinking about it, others may find it a challenge. Not everybody appreciates what we do for them I know but it shouldn’t stop us trying should it? I personally do not like surprises but I do like being treated well, that is respectably. Sometimes in my working day I get unexpected rewards, for example a bottle of wine over and above my fee. Little gestures like that are pleasant to receive and they do make me happy. It is nice to know that we are appreciated now and then. Making someone happy doesn’t have to be a well thought out event, indeed it is far better when we are spontaneous for then it is likely to be more sincere I feel. Small things go a long way. Be kind and considerate when out in the world and always be ready to help those in difficulty. A lot of people live out their lives aggressively and are often selfish with it too. Some never wish to ‘get involved’ in situations and others are quick to jump in and help. Having the right attitude to life and indeed to others makes for a better person in my estimation. I will go out into the world today and forget what I’ve written here but then I know I do not need to be reminded to be nice to others because it is in my nature to be that way. I know in my heart that I will be ready to make someone happy if the opportunity arises because it makes me feel better too! I am not suggesting to my readers that they are anything else but nice people. I only suggest they might remind themselves that they are. I hope all my readers have a happy and wonderful week and along the way make someone else feel happy too.
Shirley Anne
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The weekend
Posted by Shirley Anne on January 25, 2012
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Continuing about my work and how long I will carry on doing it I find myself even more in demand and thereby reluctant to stop altogether. Many people close to me tell me that I am too obliging but when I get requests such as complete loss of power I find I want to help. This was the case on Saturday. Now Saturdays are my sabbath days of rest but when an emergency situation arises and I have been asked to help out then that is what I will do. My philosophy and the teaching is that the sabbath was made for mankind and not mankind for the sabbath. I was about to enjoy my Saturday afternoon watching television (I was watching the Masters Snooker semi-finals, something I like to watch) when I received a call from a lady whom I’ve worked for many times and she asked if I could help her as her food freezer wasn’t working. Now I do not repair fridges and freezers when once I did years ago but then my employer supplied the necessary equipment for that sort of work. I talked her through the possible reasons for the problem which was most probably a loss of power but she maintained that she hadn’t a clue how to go about that. I arrived at her house fifteen minutes later. Now this lady is currently having her downstairs floors levelled which means all the floorboards being removed and new floor joists installed, quite a big job and she has to live upstairs whilst the work is carried out. That being the case it was most likely that her builder had accidentally switched off her freezer whilst raising the kitchen floor. It took me ten seconds to find the problem. It had been switched off at source! Whilst she is having this work done the builders are also doing some work on the roof and have erected scaffolding at the front of the house. When I arrived I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that scaffolding leaning over by as much as 40 degrees from the vertical having been blown over in the high winds we had been experiencing the night before. It was only a supporting stay which had become embedded in the soil preventing it falling over completely. We telephoned the builder several times but could not get a reply. I had to leave and return home. No sooner I got home I received another call from another lady whom I’ve worked for in the past. She asked if I could go to her daughter’s house as all her electrical circuits were not working. By this time it was late afternoon and already dark. When I arrived about twenty minutes later I discovered a genuine fault. The RCD unit had tripped but wouldn’t reset, thus disconnecting all of the supply. Switching off all circuit breakers didn’t solve the problem so that meant I also had to disconnect the circuits neutral cables too. Still the RCD would not reset which meant that it was faulty and would need replacing. However it was an old type unit and would be better to replace the whole board with a modern version that is easy to repair should anything go wrong. Of course I do not carry such things in my vehicle, no electrician does and as it was too late to purchase one and too late to do the work I had to effect a temporary repair. I by-passed the RCD unit so they could have power over the weekend until I could return on Monday to fit a new board. So that was my Saturday in tatters! I actually had scheduled work to do on Sunday morning, only small jobs this time and only because my clients could not accommodate me during the week. Normally I wouldn’t work on a Sunday as I don’t do on a Saturday. At least I was back home within two hours and had the rest of the day to myself. I did return to replace the distribution board on Monday morning, an up-to date version of the old one which enables the lighting circuits to be isolated from the RCD controlling the power circuits so if it trips the lights won’t be affected. I also discovered a fault in the washing machine which was probably the reason the old RCD kept tripping and eventually giving up altogether. I was told that several times in the past it had caused the RCD to trip. Some people never learn. Her failure to get the washing machine repaired caused her having to pay for a new power board to be fitted and she still has to do something with the washing machine.
Shirley Anne
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Featured link for this week
Posted by Shirley Anne on January 22, 2012
Why not pay Angela a visit sometime this week? She can be found at http://angiebop.wordpress.com/
Shirley Anne
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Not going there
Posted by Shirley Anne on January 20, 2012
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I don’t know if my fellow bloggers on WordPress have the same problem but for those who are on WordPress, have you noticed how long it takes to open the page for a new post? I am often kept waiting before the new post page turns up. During that time I am thinking about the post I am about to write and also getting a little impatient for it to open. Having arrived in such a state for this post I am wondering sometimes if it is all worth the wait. Probably many of my readers might be thinking the same but I hope not. I do try to write about interesting things and for me the most interesting things are to do with my life and I am sure other people’s lives too. We do all live out our lives in a similar way except that we will have differing views, interests and lifestyles but all of them interesting in their own way. So when I write about things it is only from my own standpoint and usually because they apply to me but equally they could apply to anyone’s life and often do. I could write only about specific things, specialising in one subject as many do who write blogs and indeed I do have such a blog myself (http://wwwminkyweaselsmusings.blogspot.com/) but this blog has no such theme and is open to any subject. I think that there is nothing wrong in specialist subject blog themes but they do limit who will read and comment. My other blog has a few readers, not many but I know that they are interested in the subject. This blog however doesn’t specialise and consequently attracts many more readers. I refuse to specialise on any particular subject on this blog but hope visitors will be encouraged to visit my other sites too. I write on my blogs for one reason only and that is to reach out to others. I have nothing to lose but everything to gain from anything I do online and all that I do is merely an extension of what I do in real life. I am grateful for any response both here and in my daily life of course and hope that whatever I write proves interesting to those who make the effort to visit me here or on my other sites.
Shirley Anne
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Is this England?
Posted by Shirley Anne on January 4, 2012
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I remember about 45 years ago when I was driving through Birmingham on my way, together with my parents, taking them to visit my grandma. She was living in Edgebaston at that time. It was a time when there was no such thing as a SatNav so it was a case of map reading and asking for directions as we got nearer or when we lost our way. Even in those days driving through Birmingham was a nightmare especially if driving through the ‘Bull Ring‘. It was easy to take the wrong turnoff the roundabout. I hadn’t been driving for too long and found it quite easy getting lost! We needed to stop and ask the way which we did. We asked several people for directions and none of them were caucasian. They were either ethnic Caribbean, African or Asian people that we came across. I remember saying to my parents, ‘Don’t white people live here any longer’? So even as far back as 45 years it seemed that there were more people other than native caucasian people living in some places in the country. Obviously far more live amongst us now and indeed some towns have practically no Caucasians living in them at all. When driving through Preston last Sunday I noticed the town was filled with people from other ethnic origins, so much so it felt as though we were in another country. Can we still call this the same England as it was long ago? We, like many countries in the world, have become a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic country. If we can all live together in peace and harmony that is wonderful but unfortunately this ideology is hard to achieve due to the prejudices of some people. Multiculturalism has been the cause of many disturbances and unrest within our society as a result. I am not about to preach about religion at this point nor am I advocating racialism but one thing I remember from Scripture is the story of the Israelites and their acquisition of the land that God had promised them after their forty years of wandering in the desert through their disobedience. Before they could take the land the were told by God to drive out all the Peoples that were there else they would be a thorn in their side but they failed to do that and consequently a thorn in their side they became. The descendents of some of those people (the Philistines) still live in the area today. They are the Palestinians. So it isn’t always desirable to live in mixed cultural societies simply because of the differences between us. I get the feeling that this country is slowly being taken from us because we are so passive in not stemming the tide of immigration. Suggestions have been made to lower the immigration rate and indeed laws are planned to be in place this year to do just that but are we closing the barn door after the horse has bolted? The future of this land may not be in danger but on the other hand it could very well be.
Shirley Anne
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Good readership
Posted by Shirley Anne on January 2, 2012
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It was with great trepidation that I started this blog a couple of years ago, well almost three years ago now and at first I drew little attention. As I developed the blog and gained confidence in writing I have been blessed by an ever-increasing readership for which I am so grateful. Not all of my readers make comment but I am happy that they read my pages in the first place. I have tried to vary my content as much as possible and no subject is taboo, for we all must have an opinion on things in the world whether they affect us directly or not. I write spontaneously, that is as I think of a subject I will write about it as I see it. The news has an influence on what I write about as do the subjects of other people’s blogs or situations I might find myself in. Having said that, or should I write, written that, I find that in most situations people are interested in my personal life more than anything else. That to me is most gratifying and I welcome such interest for I have the same attitude to other people, I am interested in them as people more than what they write about other things. I can safely say that I have a good readership, not just in numbers, which is continually growing, but in who responds to me through this media. I hope I do the same when I comment on other blogs, make the recipients happy that I respond to them. The Internet is a wonderful tool for bring people together but it must be used wisely. It is so easy to offend people for as it is written, the pen is mightier than the sword. I hope that as each of us connects in this way that we shall be careful in what we say. I hope this year will prove fruitful in the building of relationships whether in we agree on things or not for we are all different. May I take this opportunity to thank all my readers for the fact they read my meanderings and especially when they comment and thereby make contact with me. Bless you all. I hope I can continue to keep you interested and entertained this coming year. Added to this I do have another, more specialised blog which is solely based upon the Christian faith for those who may be interested. The relevant link is over on the right. There is a further Minkyweasel presence on YouTube and again, the link is over on the right.
Shirley Anne
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Christmas eve
Posted by Shirley Anne on December 24, 2011
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Christmas eve and all is well. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, no-one to see. Quietly indulging in my red wine flicking between the television channels to see if there is anything worth watching, something that hasn’t anything at all to do with Christmas, very difficult at this time of year. I tire of the pressure that is imposed on us all, if we allow it of course. Monday morning and it will all be finished with, forgotten and stored away until next year. Folk will already be looking forward to their New Year celebrations and many will stay ‘in the party spirit’ for the whole intervening week between the two celebrations. Each to their own of course but it isn’t for me. It has been at least three weeks since I visited my pub and it will be another three weeks at least before I make another visit there. Hopefully all will have returned to normality by then. I am not really a party animal but I do like mixing with people and socialising over drinks and perhaps the dinner table. I lead pretty much a quiet life and enjoy the simpler things. As I write this (on Thursday….well I said I wanted a break from blogging) there has been no news regarding the arrival of my first grandchild but I will post something when it happens. I won’t be wishing everyone a happy/merry Christmas/New Year but I do wish everyone to be happy in their lives, to love one another and do unto others as you would have them do unto you. May God bless you all.
Shirley Anne
PS….I got a phone call which got me out of bed in order to reconnect an electrical supply for someone 12 miles away. Somehow I knew that was going to happen, a premonition, a vision if you like but I knew it was going to happen. The strange thing is I get these visions quite often lately. The supply was re-instated and all is well.
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People don’t think
Posted by Shirley Anne on December 7, 2011
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It always seems to happen that I get calls to install or change outdoor light fittings in the winter months. The most frequently asked request is to install security lighting. The reason for that of course us that the dark evenings are with us at this time of year and the risk of burglary is thought to be higher. Although most burglaries occur during daylight hours and many of those are opportunistic people fear that the darkness is an invitation for burglars. It is true that some burglaries happen during the dark hours so security lighting is a deterrent. Why don’t people think about such things when the daylight hours are longer in the summer months? The weather will always dictate whether outside installation takes place of course, no-one wants to be working outside when it is wet and windy or cold and icy, apart from the fact that it could be dangerous. This week I have had a few such requests for outside lighting, some of which I have completed. I remember one year when I was asked to install lighting in wood decking in a garden. It was February, it was very cold and frosty and the job took me four times longer than it should have done but my client insisted I did it no matter what the cost. I had to wear gloves but that made it difficult to handle the components. I had to keep coming back indoors to get warm too. I vowed I would never repeat such a stupid method of working again and I have kept that promise. My motto now is I’m sorry but if the weather is bad the job has to wait else get someone else to do it. I do my best for people but some try it on with me! I don’t get many problems with strange requests at work, I just get some strange people to work for now and then! Speaking of which there was a guy call me on Monday who had a problem with a three light chandelier, one of the holders was loose. Thinking and wondering why he couldn’t have tightened it up himself I realised who it was calling me. He is an elderly Jewish gentleman whose wife is suffering with various health problems and I have done many jobs for them in the past. When I got to their apartment he was standing there with his arms wide open to greet me, something he has taken upon himself to do for my last few visits. I get a hug and a kiss but I would prefer he wasn’t so amorous. I try to keep a professional head upon my shoulders so my response is passive. He is sincere but presumptuous. The offending light fitting was over his wife’s bed and she was still in it! This has happened a few times but they are not bothered about me being there, it’s as though I have become part of the family as it were. The job itself wasn’t that easy to fix, well beyond his capability but I managed in the end. I even fixed a problem with a radiator valve that they had in the bathroom. Whilst I was there I met with a woman who does their house chores and now have the prospect of more work in the future. Earlier in the morning I’d been to another job ostensibly to install a power outlet for an electric fire and to fit the same into the opening in the fireplace which was surrounded by reconstituted granite slabs. Now this guy didn’t even bother to unpack the new fire and see how to fit it. It was designed to either screw straight onto a wall or fit into an opening. It had a flexible cable and plug already fitted as is the norm so all that was required was to fit it in the hole. He could have done that himself, it didn’t require any tools, his three-year old daughter could have done it, except for one thing, the opening, although wide enough, was six millimetres too short in height. He will get someone to grind off the excess. Had he looked at the fire in the first place he would not have needed my services. I fixed a couple of external lights simply by replacing the bulbs! Why don’t people think before they act? It cost him for his omission. I didn’t mind, it made my day a bit easier anyhow and still got paid!
Shirley Anne
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Thinking aloud, why?
Posted by Shirley Anne on November 25, 2011
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I used to be a person who despised watching soap operas on television but in more recent times I find myself watching one or two of them. The most striking thing I notice in these programs is the way they portray how people deal with each other, more specifically how they treat each other. They say that soap operas are not true to life but in fact they are very much true to life. Admittedly much is crammed into the episodes and much is going on between the characters but when we analyse it all we can see that the things that go on are the same things that most of us experience or have experienced in our own lives. I wonder why people treat other people the way they do. Some people get along with almost anyone, others find it difficult to get along with anyone at all. People can be horrible toward some and yet at the same time be nice to others. Why are people horrible toward others and what pleasure do they get out of putting another down? As human beings we can be both nasty and kind, selfish and unselfish and we are selective in which is dealt to whom. What makes us hate one person and like another, be kind to one person and leave another out of it? If we analyse our behaviour we might find that we treat others in a way which is dependent on what we might gain from it. If someone is different from us we are often cautious in dealing with them but all the time we are looking to see what effect they will have upon us, whether beneficial or otherwise. We may not think about these things, they just come naturally. So when I look at soap operas do I see aspects of my own personality being portrayed or do I feel that I act in a completely different way? Do we think we have faults that should be worked upon or do we feel we are not behaving badly? Do we really treat our neighbours as we would have them treat us? Do we really love as we ought or do we select whom we should treat preferentially?
Shirley Anne
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Traditional minds
Posted by Shirley Anne on November 13, 2011
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A deafening blast
A shriek of pain
Mud filled clothes
Relentless rain,
And bodies left
Just where they fell
In this infernal
Man made hell.
All through the night
All through the day
The suffering
Won’t go away,
Our comrades’ dead
Our spirits low,
Now all that’s left to us, is hope.
The War
Copyright Shirley Anne 11 Nov 03
This Sunday is rememberance Sunday, a day when most people ‘honour’ the dead although many services are held on the actual day, 11th November, which this year was on Thursday. Poppies are bought and worn on lapel and blouse. Our soldiers gave their lives that we might live in a free society…..well that is what is claimed. Whilst it is honourable to prevent our country from invasion it isn’t nice that people die doing it. They say that people gave their lives to the cause but in fact they didn’t give their lives at all, their lives were taken from them. Very few would deliberately give their lives freely. Nobody goes to war with the intention of being killed but they do get killed. Whilst it is proper to mark the passing of someone who has died it does nothing to repeat the process year on year. Just what do we mean by ‘honouring the dead’ anyway? I see people standing beside graves and memorials with heads bowed supposedly honouring the dead. What are they actually doing? Well their thoughts may turn to the suffering that was endured or those who were left fatherless or widowed but probably not of the person in the grave who isn’t there anyway, just a pile of bones. So they stand about thinking all sorts of things over a pile of bones. This could be done at home, in church, at work…..anywhere and it would still be meaningless. I agree that we should support soldiers who have fallen on hard times or are left injured or maimed through ‘serving their country’ but I resent the fact that they have to do it in the first place. I may give to the poppy appeal but I won’t wear a poppy to show that I support anything to do with war. People who stand around graves are honouring the evil spirits that put the dead there in the first place. Life goes on and whilst it does then that is the time when we should be honouring people, whilst they are alive, not when they are dead!
Shirley Anne
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Someone is interested…lol
Posted by Shirley Anne on November 12, 2011
Someone is interested in me. No, I mean interested in who I am, what I am all about, or at least curious, all of which are great things and I am very flattered that anyone should take such an interest. Truthfully I am. I was looking at my blog’s statistics, as I do quite regularly and discovered just what folk are browsing on this site. I was surprised to see that many are looking at my history, my journey into womanhood and who I am. 
What is more, folk are also looking at old posts I have posted these last two years, which is even better because there are many interesting things there that I have written about and any forthcoming comments would be very welcome indeed. One thing I do not know is who is looking and what they are specifically looking at. Yes, I know what is being viewed but I don’t know who is looking at what. The statistics might be good but they are not that good! I thank those who wish to remain anonymous for taking such an interest even though I would like it more that they should be open with me. That isn’t important. What is more important is that they are looking. We only have one stab at this life (although I do believe in an after-life) so we should be making the most of it. Reaching out to others has got to be the best way to do that and to live our lives but remember those we reach out to would most probably wish to know of our interest and more about us too. This sounds like a personal request but it isn’t. I simply point out something that we should all be aware of. What is life if lived in isolation? For me that would be a waste of my life. If anyone takes an interest in me I reciprocate. If I take an interest in someone I expect them to reciprocate, one way or another. I just think that is a natural response. I am interested in people and I am glad to see some of them are interested in me! Just in case anyone wants to get in touch, there is an email address over on the left. Let your mouse wander over my avatar and it will be revealed.
Shirley Anne
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Gone to the dogs
Posted by Shirley Anne on October 30, 2011
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This country gets worse every day, high taxation, high cost of living, inadequate government, poor judicial system, insufficient funds for policing, health care and many other contentious things. Our moral standards are eroding day by day. There is violence and fraud everywhere but just as bad are the slovenly habits of a high percentage of the population. Occasionally I see a program on television that exposes the problems we face with discarded rubbish around the country both in and outside of the cities and towns. The countryside doesn’t escape the unlawful deposit of waste by those too lazy and not wishing to pay to be rid of their rubbish. Rivers and canals, roads and byways, buildings and shopping centres, parks and gardens all suffer the onslaught of the phantom illegal dumpsters. Added to this we have graffiti covering walls, animal faeces and urine fouling the environment, cigarette butts, empty beer cans and discarded needles from drug abuse strewn all over the place. The wind blows paper and plastic bags up into the trees which hang there like unwanted decorations. This is slovenliness on a grand scale. I often wonder what the homes of those who treat their environment this way look like. Most of what is done is done in secret but some of it is done blatantly in view of others. There was a time when I used to pull up children I saw throwing rubbish to the ground and asking them to pick it up. I might not be so bold these days for fear of retribution but in certain circumstances I might. There is no excuse for treating our environment like a rubbish dump when the facilities exist for the lawful dumping of our waste and unwanted things. Other countries have problems too, some more than others and I think it is a sign of our times, a lack of moral standards and a disrespect for anything good. There is a constant battle going on in society trying to keep it all under control and I wonder if that battle is being won. I makes me think why so many people want to live here. It seems the benefits outweigh the faults for those seeking citizenship, whether legally or not. Personally I think this country has gone to the dogs.
Shirley Anne
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Isolated in a sea of people
Posted by Shirley Anne on October 29, 2011
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It is possible to be lonely in a crowd of people as I am sure most would agree. If you were to take a census of lonely people out on the streets in your town or city I am sure you would discover that there are many folk roaming about whose only contact with others is when they are out shopping. I went out into the street to bring in the emptied paper/metal container for recycling waste. As I opened the gate I saw a young girl, a teenager who lives in a house opposite but one door up. She was doing exactly the same as I was. ‘Hello’, she quipped. ‘Hi there’, I replied and I picked up the container and closed the gate. I assumed she simply carried on with what she was doing just like myself. Now her family have been living there longer than I have been in my house, that is now 23 years but I for one have never spoken with anyone who lives there. I have spoken with a next-door neighbours many times, especially the woman but the other next-door neighbour I have not spoken with at all. He lives alone and pretty much keeps himself to himself getting visits from family and friends occasionally. The neighbours directly across the street from my house have changed a few times since we moved in and the current occupiers have the house up for sale. I have never spoken with them either even though they have been there about two years. I wave to them in acknowledgement when they wave to me, usually as they are driving off somewhere but that is all. The only other folk I have spoken with is their other next-door neighbour, an old guy who often greets me with a smile or a wave. He was the guy who came across to me whilst I was struggling with a paving slab outside my house about eighteen months ago and helped me move it saying ‘A woman shouldn’t be doing this kind of work’. Bless him. The point I am making is that many of us never have much contact with our neighbours at all. We live amongst them but have isolated ourselves. I suppose the right thing to do is to invite our neighbours to the house for barbecues and informal gatherings in order to get to know them but how many of us do that? We lose the spirit of community when we isolate ourselves I think. The usual excuse is that we have no time in our busy schedules to include our neighbours but I’ll wager that isn’t really true. Once every few months isn’t a lot to ask and it might be that we also get to visit with them and become friends. Talking about it is one thing but doing it another I suppose.
Shirley Anne
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