Sunday 1 January 2017
Monday 15 June 2015
Noise
What is this situation that so many of us experience that causes us to uproot ourselves and our families or should that prove too much we suffer with?
Noise! This is one of the many reasons that many people give for moving to a new home. Not becuase they have outgrown their current abode. Not becuase they fancied a change. Simply to get away from something.
So many of people run. Run away from some lovely homes, lovely neighbourhoods, from lovely friendships we have formed. Simply to get away from something.
What does the local authority do about noise? Depends on where you live and if you own your own home. For some reason noise made by a leaseholder is more bearable. I do hope that brings consolation to those that are experiencing noise right now. Excuse my heavy sarcasm, but I was amazed that who creates the noise is a deciding factor in what is done and what can be done.
You would have thought that noise was noise, right? Wrong! We are all created equal but the noise we make is far from it! In fact, I have an example that makes me laugh, not LOL kind of laughing but laughing at the sound of encroaching madness.
You see, someone I know creates so much noise that it can be heard from the other side of the road. The local authority heard them acknowledge that they were making a lot of noise. According to the local authority this is acceptable. However, I am the one who is then labelled sensitive. Would you be sensitive to a noise that envelopes your head so you have to go outside just to hear your own thoughts? If you answered that yes to that then join me on the sensitive side!
Not an easy place to be, labelled by a local authority that is meant to me impartial when it comes to such things. Not an easy place to be when the local authority give the noise maker/someone carte blanche to make as much noise as they please.
Perhaps I should uproot and move?
Noise! This is one of the many reasons that many people give for moving to a new home. Not becuase they have outgrown their current abode. Not becuase they fancied a change. Simply to get away from something.
So many of people run. Run away from some lovely homes, lovely neighbourhoods, from lovely friendships we have formed. Simply to get away from something.
What does the local authority do about noise? Depends on where you live and if you own your own home. For some reason noise made by a leaseholder is more bearable. I do hope that brings consolation to those that are experiencing noise right now. Excuse my heavy sarcasm, but I was amazed that who creates the noise is a deciding factor in what is done and what can be done.
You would have thought that noise was noise, right? Wrong! We are all created equal but the noise we make is far from it! In fact, I have an example that makes me laugh, not LOL kind of laughing but laughing at the sound of encroaching madness.
You see, someone I know creates so much noise that it can be heard from the other side of the road. The local authority heard them acknowledge that they were making a lot of noise. According to the local authority this is acceptable. However, I am the one who is then labelled sensitive. Would you be sensitive to a noise that envelopes your head so you have to go outside just to hear your own thoughts? If you answered that yes to that then join me on the sensitive side!
Not an easy place to be, labelled by a local authority that is meant to me impartial when it comes to such things. Not an easy place to be when the local authority give the noise maker/someone carte blanche to make as much noise as they please.
Perhaps I should uproot and move?
Thursday 26 December 2013
Aging
Boxing Day is nearly over and I am just taking a few moments to read (fascinating book called Quiet)and listen to some early music (Ockenhiem).
This Christmas has been one I will never want to repeat, I love the company however I do not and cannot understand them. We share the language but I cannot understand them when they speak. We share a similar upbringing so we have some colloquiums in common. But this is not really about what we do or do not have in common but about what my brain will or will not process
I first realised this phenomenon some time ago when a woman with a high pitch voice spoke to me. I was in reception and so it was not unusual behaviour for people to come up and speak to me. However although I knew she was talking to me, I knew she was speaking words, I could not hear the individual words, I could not hear any of her words. And I just looked at her. Was I going deaf? Surely not, because then I would have similar experiences with others approaching reception - right? Wrong! Just woman with high squeaky voice as I called her thereafter. I have noticed this occurring with this high pitched "I'm really calling a dog" kind of voice and I cannot account for why others can hear them OK and I cannot..... but then the person I am spending the season with will put on this voice for some reason - maybe they feel it is endearing although I quickly tell them to stop at once as I cannot hear a word they are saying!
As they are elderly I do repeat this to them frequently. Is this the start of the memory going, failing and then gone? Or is this just the start of my worrying for nothing? I do hope it is the latter as the former would be rather too cruel to bear or to watch. Spending just the Christmas was difficult enough but if this was the start of something more serious it would mean each visit would become an even greater challenge for all concerned.
How does one age? I was travelling to Gatwick, as you do, and on the journey there an old man got on the public transport and I helped him up with his bag full of shopping. I told him he was early for all that. He disagreed and said if he left it till later the place would be heaving with people acting like savages. I gave a chuckle at this as I do tend to describe people as savages now. The way they treat others is appalling. The old man turned to me and said if I knew getting old was gonna be like this I wouldn't have bothered. I giggled out loud of course (best way) but in looking at him I felt that he was not only joking with me. I said "Don't be silly!" and his response back to me was I don't want to be here. I kept on laughing and said something cute and fluffy and feminine as I felt that this called for girly pink fluff. But he was serious. He went onto explain that he was shopping for his father who is not able to get out much now that he's old. I swallowed down on the savagery of a country that allows for the concept of being elderly and yet caring for the elderly.
I'm spending Christmas with someone who cannot remember from moment but can remember from many moons ago. And here was a man with full memory and didn't care for what it recalled.
Aging.
This Christmas has been one I will never want to repeat, I love the company however I do not and cannot understand them. We share the language but I cannot understand them when they speak. We share a similar upbringing so we have some colloquiums in common. But this is not really about what we do or do not have in common but about what my brain will or will not process
I first realised this phenomenon some time ago when a woman with a high pitch voice spoke to me. I was in reception and so it was not unusual behaviour for people to come up and speak to me. However although I knew she was talking to me, I knew she was speaking words, I could not hear the individual words, I could not hear any of her words. And I just looked at her. Was I going deaf? Surely not, because then I would have similar experiences with others approaching reception - right? Wrong! Just woman with high squeaky voice as I called her thereafter. I have noticed this occurring with this high pitched "I'm really calling a dog" kind of voice and I cannot account for why others can hear them OK and I cannot..... but then the person I am spending the season with will put on this voice for some reason - maybe they feel it is endearing although I quickly tell them to stop at once as I cannot hear a word they are saying!
As they are elderly I do repeat this to them frequently. Is this the start of the memory going, failing and then gone? Or is this just the start of my worrying for nothing? I do hope it is the latter as the former would be rather too cruel to bear or to watch. Spending just the Christmas was difficult enough but if this was the start of something more serious it would mean each visit would become an even greater challenge for all concerned.
How does one age? I was travelling to Gatwick, as you do, and on the journey there an old man got on the public transport and I helped him up with his bag full of shopping. I told him he was early for all that. He disagreed and said if he left it till later the place would be heaving with people acting like savages. I gave a chuckle at this as I do tend to describe people as savages now. The way they treat others is appalling. The old man turned to me and said if I knew getting old was gonna be like this I wouldn't have bothered. I giggled out loud of course (best way) but in looking at him I felt that he was not only joking with me. I said "Don't be silly!" and his response back to me was I don't want to be here. I kept on laughing and said something cute and fluffy and feminine as I felt that this called for girly pink fluff. But he was serious. He went onto explain that he was shopping for his father who is not able to get out much now that he's old. I swallowed down on the savagery of a country that allows for the concept of being elderly and yet caring for the elderly.
I'm spending Christmas with someone who cannot remember from moment but can remember from many moons ago. And here was a man with full memory and didn't care for what it recalled.
Aging.
Saturday 12 October 2013
What Went Wrong?
Around 1923, the most powerful men of the day ruled the world of money:
These men were "movers and shakers," the kind many people envy and wish to be like. Yet something went terribly wrong with these men's lives.
Twenty-five years later:
How's your inner man? And in twenty-five years from now?
- Charles Schwab, president of the largest steel company in America.
- Samuel Insull, president of the largest utility company.
- Howard Hopson, president of the largest gas company.
- Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange.
- Albert Fall, Secretary of Interior in President Harding's cabinet.
- Jesse Livermore, the great "bear" on Wall Street.
- Ivan Krueger, head of the world's greatest monopoly.
- Leon Fraser, president of the Bank of International Settlements
These men were "movers and shakers," the kind many people envy and wish to be like. Yet something went terribly wrong with these men's lives.
Twenty-five years later:
- Charles Schwab, left behind an insolvent estate with debts and obligations totalling 1.7 million.
- Samuel Insull, died of a heart attack in a Paris subway station with 20 cents in his pocket.
- Howard Hopson, died in a sanitarium
- Richard Whitney had just been released from Sing-Sing prison.
- Albert Fall died at home, broke.
- Jesse Livermore committed suicide a week after Thanksgiving in 1940.
- Ivan Krueger committed suicide.
- Leon Fraser committed suicide.
How's your inner man? And in twenty-five years from now?
Wednesday 9 October 2013
London Evening Standard 9th October 2013 - The Liars Edition
Why have I called it that?
From the front page onwards its full of news of "liars".
Well I never!
However, read on and you soon see that he lied about some not all. Its just that when he lied he lied BIG time and many around him suspected as such (but then don't your so called colleagues usually say that about you when your gone??) And now the man is in hiding. But astonishing is the fact he worked in some great law firms.
Skip further along the Evening Standard and you come across yet more gems.
I suppose I must have thought the Kardashians HAD parents but never entertained the thought beyond that.. why would I (or anyone else really?)
So, here they are Kardashian parents saying they have been living a lie for about a year to keep up appearances. For who? For the program? The public? For their children? And why? Why not just do the most unusual thing and keep something private.
This kind of lying hurt people like you and me. Conmen were selling fake insurance mostly to young motorists. As many as 20, 000 people could have bought these fake policies. Its is reported that people faced having cars seized if they are found driving under a fake insurance policy.
And finally I spotted this article:
It would appear that 2 Labour ministers who lost their place in Parliament after the expenses scandal are back on the scene - both with eyes fixed on the Brent south seat. Ignoring the Brent South seat I focused on the expenses scandal.
The candidates are:
Dawn Butler was brought down by claims for a whirlpool and for a second home when she had a home close to Westminster. She was exonerated. OK, so far, so good. And no lie found here. I wish her well in 2015 general election.
Tony McNulty was brought down by claiming for a home his parents lived. He claimed innocent. He paid £13,837. No word of being exonerated. Hmmmmmm......
I guess if I had dug a little deeper I would find more but its late and I'm tired. I wonder what tomorrow will bring??
From the front page onwards its full of news of "liars".
Lying Barrister Forced to Quit
Exposed: Top City Lawyer with Bogus CV
Well I never!
However, read on and you soon see that he lied about some not all. Its just that when he lied he lied BIG time and many around him suspected as such (but then don't your so called colleagues usually say that about you when your gone??) And now the man is in hiding. But astonishing is the fact he worked in some great law firms.
Skip further along the Evening Standard and you come across yet more gems.
Kardashian Parents stop keeping up appearances
I suppose I must have thought the Kardashians HAD parents but never entertained the thought beyond that.. why would I (or anyone else really?)
So, here they are Kardashian parents saying they have been living a lie for about a year to keep up appearances. For who? For the program? The public? For their children? And why? Why not just do the most unusual thing and keep something private.
27 Arrests in Raids of Fake Car Insurance
This kind of lying hurt people like you and me. Conmen were selling fake insurance mostly to young motorists. As many as 20, 000 people could have bought these fake policies. Its is reported that people faced having cars seized if they are found driving under a fake insurance policy.
And finally I spotted this article:
Ex-ministers in fight for Labour target seat
It would appear that 2 Labour ministers who lost their place in Parliament after the expenses scandal are back on the scene - both with eyes fixed on the Brent south seat. Ignoring the Brent South seat I focused on the expenses scandal.
The candidates are:
Dawn Butler was brought down by claims for a whirlpool and for a second home when she had a home close to Westminster. She was exonerated. OK, so far, so good. And no lie found here. I wish her well in 2015 general election.
Tony McNulty was brought down by claiming for a home his parents lived. He claimed innocent. He paid £13,837. No word of being exonerated. Hmmmmmm......
I guess if I had dug a little deeper I would find more but its late and I'm tired. I wonder what tomorrow will bring??
Inside Broadmoor
This was on TV just yesterday (Monday, 7th October 2013) and the comments that people made about those with schizophrenia was so sad I had to end my contribution to the discussion. Have we really reached 2013 and people still think that chaining people to a chair or bed, pumping people full of drugs until they are senseless, and locking them up forever is the best treatment?
And to add to this, today I saw a campaign on Change.org -
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/thesunnewspaper
Yes, we are in 2013 and mental illness is being sensationalised in the media, still misrepresented and still feared by many. [Sigh]. Why?
I don't have answers just more questions. Like how do I treat those that I meet who tell me about their struggles with mental health issues? How do I respond? Am I open to hearing their stories? Or do I visibly back off and away? Do I name-call?
I guess, this entire issue confronts us and challenges us to think about our own behaviours and attitudes. And I am thinking on it... are you?
And to add to this, today I saw a campaign on Change.org -
https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/thesunnewspaper
Yes, we are in 2013 and mental illness is being sensationalised in the media, still misrepresented and still feared by many. [Sigh]. Why?
I don't have answers just more questions. Like how do I treat those that I meet who tell me about their struggles with mental health issues? How do I respond? Am I open to hearing their stories? Or do I visibly back off and away? Do I name-call?
I guess, this entire issue confronts us and challenges us to think about our own behaviours and attitudes. And I am thinking on it... are you?
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