Didn’t post yesterday as not much to report except going for the first time to Lidl. My verdict is for some things really good value, for others taste is ghastly and poor quality compared to the big supermarkets. Good cheese, watery insipid trifle, great herrings in sauce and the soup was vile.
Today my sister called. She has a tithe cottage on the duke of buccleuch estate given to her because my dad worked 50 years. The estate are clearly in financial trouble and have made many farmhands redundant and are selling 20 cottages including hers. Just given three months notice and no support or help. My sister is 62 and her husband 69, who is chronically ill. I advised her to go public but she was clearly very distraught. We are both sick of this country and no longer want to live here. It is not a country we recognise but like something in a terminal decline. This is giving me the impetus to get well and back to work. Clearly I don’t care much about me but I do about my family.
Also spoke to my friend who has cancer who is going down the alternative and conventional medicine route now. I am slightlyworried for her as it sounds as though it may have spread to the liver. I hope for her sake it hasn’t.
Honestly, troubles everywhere.
