By No-one's Rhetoric

Cherry

By Ewan

Thu, 07 Oct 2021
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We walked, yesterday,

under blue skies,

in uplands,

in sunlight

brought to us

by no-one’s rhetoric

or promises.

 

It was cold, yes.

We left a house

still unheated

-it’s October,

barely autumn,

I am almost

a Northerner.

 

Three old ladies,

dressed in long coats

and headscarves,

with wind-rouged cheeks,

stopped to fuss

Dog, and their faces

beamed like the sun.

 

I wondered if

they’d keep their coats

and scarves on,

when they got home.

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Comments

Submitted by Di_Hard on

That's clever. Is worrying how they are saying gas might double

 

Submitted by Ewan on

3 older ladies and I worried about them all day.
The trouble is, the cost will go up most for those who can afford it least; those buying the energy cards over the counter at the local One Stop shop.
We all rushed so hard to get our cheap energy provided by start-up companies with no real assets, one company was being run out of a spare bedroom in a Manchester flat!
I've been with the 2nd largest of the independents since returning to the UK, and the news has reported them as "considering alternative financing" . I went to them because of their commitment to green energy, to be honest. My wife and I can afford to pay more for our energy and we will, but, as usual, another catastrophe arrives because of politicians' complete and utter inability to plan more than one idea ahead.

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Submitted by Di_Hard on

I am very worried about the consequences of paying for furlough. There have been several cutbacks on not very expensive to provide NHS services. Not immediately life threatening, but hugely life quality impacting, and must be particularly so for older people. To ring up the Health centre for something which helped you keep going, to be told is no longer available unless you go private is scary when shopping and energy are going up so fast