NIMBY

Jam for Tea

A View from the C-Side

TCouldn’t cross the road to go and tutor the Landlord’s son at 5pm. A car a second. One white SZC  bus passed with one man in orange inside for Martlesham Park and Ride but it didn’t stop in Theberton as has been promised. My pupil had to write a letter to the Editor for Edexcel English Language saying “City Life is Better than Country Life.” Transport connections in the country are inadequate. Everyone loves a holiday but does no one really not realise that these trees are our life source, that these thick troughs of ploughed fertile fields grow our food? (Use rhetorical questions; impress the examiner). Where do people think cabbages, carrots, onions, lettuces, leeks, asparagus, fish, crab, lobster, chicken, free range pork comes from? Is Ed Miliband so complete an idiot that he can’t see the destruction he is causing to the well-being of everyone in the UK? (Use irony not insult). Dear Ed, Celebrate people’s strengths, listen to people who know what they are talking about, believe in people (Rule of three).That way you will achieve growth.

Back home I sneeze loudly and in succession. When I say, “Excuse me,” the Spanish Global Studies student says, “Don’t worry; the prisoners want to be free.” 

The cheery, informed Health Assistant at Leiston Surgery today said no-one had imagined the scale of the thing. 

I can barely plan a deck chair sunset vigil let alone a forest marching from Theberton to Saxmundham.

I sliced into my finger yesterday carving free range Suffolk ham with a new sharp knife given by the students. Now I can identify in a small way with what the trees are feeling.

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