World HQ A bright cold
10.36
World HQ.
A bright, cold morning. Stuff waits to be addressed.
After 2 hours, the inbox is down to 79.
23.11 DGM HQ.
Arriving via London to our landlord, butcher & proprietor of the
village store, still working at 22.45. This is the life of the village
store, an endangered species. Dependent upon a Post Office counter for
survival, the UK government’s implicit policy is to close village POs
as uneconomic. The amount of paperwork, stuff & regulations from
Brussels, proliferates. As an adjoining small business, I can testify
to the pressing & oppressive weight of stuff-stuff. A village
without a store is not quite a village.
Current outside temperature is –4.5 C.
In London: visiting a gallery opening for Carol McNicol. The tube from
Chiswick to the Barbican took 75 minutes tube there & 90 minutes
for the return back – there were Piccadilly line delays in both
directions. I have used public transport in London for 2 days running.
Life for ordinary people, those who are dependent upon public services,
is hard.
