A nice little day overall. A few visitors came round today – things are gathering pace for Mrs Pitts’ birthday – all these people bringing stuff for Friday. Today saw the arrival of Emma too and the beginning of a busy week.
Kit has been ok today. She has hidden away from the visitors as she is a timid little thing, but has taken to sitting on the window sill to look outside now. We have a harness to allow her outside – mainly because of the number of cats that have gone missing in the time we have lived here – at least two cats are no longer with us – and we wouldn’t want that to happen to Kit.
Our first couple of raised beds for the garden arrived along with a few other items. Some of the weekend will be spent putting those together. Below are our potato planters.
I completed six weeks of topic lesson planning today as well.
Finally, there was a gap in our caching calendar, and so we went to find GC3Q6YR in the freezing cold of late evening.
In other news today Margaret Thatcher died. I don’t have many feelings on the matter, but people my age and slightly older have treated the news with a ridiculous lack of respect. She was still a mother and grandmother – and even though I’m sure they know the nation’s mixed feelings towards her, they should be allowed to mourn.
The things she put into place – privatisation of many industries that were previously run by government agencies, raised £48 billion for this country – but the economy needed that change, things had to be privatised because there was no money to keep them going. The subsequent collapse of industries such as mining and steel working just goes to show how fragile those industries were without support. But if they weren’t viable, they had to go. Whoever was in her position at the time would have had to do the same because of the changing world – other countries doing the same thing in a more efficient, and crucially, cheaper way.
It’s a situation that feels very similar to today, but this government isn’t dealing with a similar situation in the right way. Retrospectively, she had to do what she did to put this country in a stronger position and much of our prosperity in the 1990s stems from that time in my view.
She will be remembered as the country’s longest serving peace time Prime Minister as well as this country’s first female PM. Her overall legacy cannot be judged now when the effect of her actions 30 years ago still lingers in people’s memories.
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8th April 2013 @ 11:38 pm
Your observation of how some people reacted to thatchers demise reminded me of when Nixon died. Americans if a certain age deplored him and i cried when he died. People were galled that i was upset but i saw a man who had to cheat, and who sent memos to his children because he couldn’t relate to them as a father. And who cried like a baby when his wife died.he was all the bad things but he was still a human being. I can relate to your feelings about thatcher.
9th April 2013 @ 7:49 am
Thanks again Moira.