I don’t often reblog posts but I love this blog! Most of the blogs I follow are linked to France or written by women of a similar age to me. This isn’t the case with this blog but it is written so beautifully and with such humour.
I think this post is definitely worth a read!
A few weeks ago, society appeared to be divided into two camps. There were those who took the Coronavirus seriously, did as they were told, stayed in and didn’t excessively stock up on lavatory paper. This group consisted of ’the majority of people’.
Then, there was a second group, consisting of a combination of young adults who took to having house, street and beach parties (when the weather was fair) combined with a handful of the more elderly and dare I say it, faintly belligerent generation. (This latter group of septuagenarians and octogenarians claiming that if the war hadn’t got them, then neither would this piddly germ and frankly if they wanted to take their daily fifteen mile drive to collect The Telegraph, then they jolly well would). Within this group of ‘those who would not obey’, both parties blamed each other, not only for the spread of the virus…
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Yes Ms FancyingFrance
I loved it.
Mmm wonder which ‘camp’ you fall into?
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Assuming you read the ‘whole’ post (!) I would say I’m in the ‘Everyone else’ group, as opposed to the ‘Mary Poppins’ variety. The comments on the original post are interesting, too!!
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Thanks so much for this June – it really is beautifully written.
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I’m no Mary Poppins, so guess I’m also a member of the ‘everyone else’ group. The group that infuriate me are the neighbours who regularly have family visit, when I’m doing it properly and missing mine like crazy.
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Yes, I know what you mean. I’m lucky enough to have youngest son with us but still missing eldest son and my sister. It must be very difficult with grandchildren.
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Especially the youngest ones who don’t understand at all.
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