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• I hope your arm is slowly getting better. The piece taken from D Bell's book is so piercing in its truth. It makes for very sad reading.
  Gwen.

  • Thanks Gwen. Doing much better.

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• What a terrible consequence from a heretofore innocuous rocking chair. I think you are wise to try to figure out critical race theory from the actual theorists as well as from the ensuing discussions. At the moment it is a dog whistle in the U.S.

  • Thanks, Elizabeth -
    You are right in terms of the CRT now under fire from those who would cheerfully return to the days of segregation. Like most things, the meaning shifts over time and what begins as one thing becomes another.

• I agree waiting rooms are fascinating places, lots to watch and listen to! Hope you start to feel more comfortable soon though. . .

  • Thanks, Jane. Onwards and upwards everyday!

• "Like won't "take" no matter how much I try,
  And I know not what to comment except goodby
  (until next time).

• Wishing you a speedy recovery.
  Two hours wouldn't have even got you an ambulance in the UK. Then the wait in the ambulance queue before being treated in a hospital corridor. What would Nye have thought?
  Bizarrely, I read Ipcress File recently.

  • Nye would have been appalled.
    My experience was that no space was left unfilled with those triaged and waiting. But , overworked and overcrowded, it was not disorderly or chaotic. And with one three-hour exception, basically reasonable. And all hunam life was there in all its messy disarray. I could see why doctor friends chose to specialise in emergency medicine.
    Thanks for the good wishes, Keith.

• Oh my goodness, this is no way to take on the holidays or any days really - with only one good arm. I could picture the accident, the ER and the nightmares associated with rehab. All I can say is bless your heart, and I am so very sorry for the struggles. If I could, I would send Pretty to help you, but alas, I can't spare her!!
  "half victims, half accomplices, just like everyone else." Best quote of the 2023 year.
  Good for you for Critical Race Theory work.
  Keep in touch with your one good hand.

  • Thanks Sheila.

• Sorry to hear about the accident - hope you are not too uncomfortable. It sounds like an example of Terry Pratchett’s “malignancy of inanimate objects”. Perfectly ordinary things (in this case a sock, a rocking chair and a bookcase) which conspire to attack unwary humans…. The only way to avoid the problem is to sit quietly and not try to do anything - which is what we’re doing as we have both just tested positive for covid. Merry Christmas! Tx

  • Thanks Teena. Both testing positive for Christmas! Now that is some ambitious Bah! Humbug!
    Wishing you both a speedy recovery and you and all the assorted creatures the best possible Chistmas.

• Oh Josie, I'm sorry to hear about your mishap. Just in time for the festive season, too. I hope you mend quickly. Sending lots of positive thoughts and virtual hugs. 🤗 xx

  • Kind of you Paula. Thank you, Fortunately, I can still read.

• An excellent quote from Orwell. In all the hoohah about him lately (Anna Funder's book Wifedom) one forgets what a good writer he could be. I've always had a liking for those postcards.
  As for racism in the US .. It can't get any worse than the words of the aspiring president reported in the media here yesterhttps://gertloveday.wordpress.comday.

  • Big Orwell fan here. And yes, what a writer. And his choice of subjects from the quotidian to the momentous. Flawed? Of course.
    American politics -like everywhere - is stuffed with absurdity bordering on the unspeakable.