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Post by cato on May 22, 2020 15:28:16 GMT
I suspect most of humanity still hasn't realised how utterly dreadful the impact of Covid 19 is going to be. The cure is possibly going to take us a decade to get out of and more may die from untreated illnesses , suicide etc than from the virus itself.
With that cheery introduction out of the way I wish to list a few items I have enjoyed in the last few months of lock down.
Birdsong.
Marian blue skies.
Old movie reruns. I watched Educating Rita a few nights ago. It's fun looking at Dublin in 1983 which is now another world.
Half empty buses.
Reading old unread Spectator magazines and realising how good the writing is. The Speccie has just produced its 10,000th issue.
Life slowing down and not having to feel guilty about it or make excuses to get out of meetings.
The daily shopping expedition.
Playing with cats .
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Post by hilary on May 30, 2020 22:43:07 GMT
For the last two Saturdays I've spent the afternoons in graveyards. Today I was in Deans Grange and it was the most beautiful, peaceful place. It was a lovely sunny day but I think the best thing about it for me was the sense of reality, common sense and truth. (After all the craziness outside).
My grandfather's first wife died at 23 and his second wife, my grandmother, died twenty years later in her 40s in 1944. He died six months later leaving a young family. They don't have a headstone and we didn't go to visit the grave as children so I had to find the grave.
The burial records are online and very easy (and free) to use. Shanganagh burials also online. There are lots of interesting headstones - some very important looking but the sense of pride and love of family is what I was seeing today!
There were hardly any people there. Maybe people don't realise the graveyards are open. I can highly recommend it!
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Post by cato on May 31, 2020 20:12:24 GMT
Graveyard visiting is an occasional hobby of mine too . You can learn a lot about popular tastes and human loss and grief by wandering around graves. I am always moved by the grave of a person from some far off land in the middle of the Murphy's and Kelly's. In my local graveyard the first grave has a swastika. Before anyone contacts RTE the crooked cross still is a lucky symbol in some Eastern religions.
Hilary mentions graveyards being open. Until recently you needed to live within 2km of one to access it and some zealous do gooders locked their local graveyards down, no doubt they meant well but denying access to the graves of loved ones is cruel and unnecessary.
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Post by hilary on Jun 1, 2020 22:24:56 GMT
I'd have been happy to argue my case if stopped by the Gardaí on a number of grounds! I wasn't stopped though. So not a very guilty pleasure in that sense.
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Post by cato on Jun 2, 2020 16:51:43 GMT
I'd have been happy to argue my case if stopped by the Gardaí on a number of grounds! I wasn't stopped though. So not a very guilty pleasure in that sense. People are quick enough to condemn the Gardai when they get things wrong but their policing over the last two months by and large has been sensitive and applied fairly. I make an exception for the crazy and illegal Black Lives Matter March in Dublin yesterday. And more are planned. I have noticed various left wing groups generally get away Scot free if they organise sit downs in busy streets . I am going to post elsewhere on yesterday's march |
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Post by Tomas on Jun 5, 2020 21:31:27 GMT
Guilty "Covid pleasure" has definitely been to learn a little more about the blatant immoral and contradictory policies within the Liberal and Leftist management in general lately. (Major sins in every camp but no pleasure to confess in finding cause for *flaw studies* among Conservatives...)
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Post by Tomas on Jun 7, 2020 3:57:23 GMT
Possible Innocent Covid pains: 1) discovering the whole mess may be due to lousy hygiene at the marketplace rather than any evil strategies in the first place (mere chance), 2) discovering that the small signs of conversion among the peoples may well be eaten up and quenched by politics and big business as usual (mere corporatism).
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Post by cato on Jun 25, 2020 8:25:35 GMT
A terrible side affect of Covid is that Gay pride has been cancelled this year throughout the world.
Rumours the Lord God had decided enough was enough will no doubt be contradicted by church authorities.
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