Being a religious person I am convinced all the prayers going up are the reason for the torrential downpours that started soon after the mid-Feb publication date on the piece from the Daily Echo
WooHoo, no more hosepipe bans for a while. Here.
Now in the US, that is another sad and worrisome story-I know people there who are stocking their pantries and freezers now against the inevitable price rises and shortages. Drought is something a lot of us have experienced in the US in our lifetimes so are used to conserving water anyway, but the situation there is really, really bad. Prayers, good vibes, positive thoughts, what ever you call it, send it up for the drought-stricken US, and would be very much appreciated by farmers trying to cope with the drought just now.
I don't know if this is considered on topic or not, but it's interesting that uncontrolled immigration is continually used lately no matter what the issue. I've been noticing it over the past year especially, and it's just especially worrisome to think that in a resource deprivation situation people might have been successfully memed into thinking of incomers as the real reason behind why little Sarah must wear her school uniform more than once before a trip through the clothes washer, not run the tap whilst brushing, and not waste drinking water on a splash pool during our BBQ summers.
Kinda reminds me of the way OAPs are being blamed for a lot of the current cuts and shortages too. It's as though people are being conditioned to see certain segments of the population as the root of all problems, and truthfully that's a bit disconcerting. Next are we going to be told if it weren't for all those pesty OAPs and immigrants eating all the food, prices wouldn't be so high and everyone else could eat?
I'm in my mid-fifties and an immigrant (US to UK). I'm keeping my head down just in case...and for the times I do have to get out and about, I'm seriously considering a tee-shirt proudly proclaiming my grandparents are buried here in the UK. Heck, my mum is too, I wonder if it would seem disrespectful to have that bit added to the T? I like to think she'd understand.
Seriously, once the people in the Scottish town I live in found out I have closer family ties here in Scotland than I do in the US, the welcome did get a
whole lot warmer. The expat group I met with in Dundee says I don't qualify for membership due to just how close the ties are, lol, but they keep me on for the chocolate chip cookies.
We have some other middle-aged and OAP aged members in the group and we've been talking about how uncomfortable it is to read the news lately because everything seems oriented towards making us the burden. We call it the double-whammy, older AND immigrants, wowsa!
I've been offline for a while and it is really strange to come back to the forum and find this thread when Saturday our group was talking for over two hours about this very topic!
