Monday 17th March 2025 - Lies, Fears, A Solution? plus Hope and Host

I’ve been thinking back and reading my blogs from five years ago.  In 2020 Covid-19 became a nightmare for the human race, with Governments putting fear into huge numbers of the worlds’ population.  My blogs reminded me of travelling by train to Bucks, in early March 2020, to find suitable care for my mother, who by her own admission, was no longer able or safe to remain in her home.  She had already decided which residential home she wanted to move into but a room would not be available for about three weeks so I found her respite care for the period in between.  All the while I was in Bucks, lockdown was threatened and I wondered if I would get back home by train before the services shut down.  As it was, the trains were operating for my return journey but by then people were starting to wear masks; which was discovered at a later date, to be a total waste of time.  Lockdown followed, with Covid termed as a pandemic all of which, most surely must have left each and every one of us with memories and many individuals and businesses still suffering and recovering from what ensued.  It’s taking time but gradually, the lies we were fed and fears instilled in us are being quashed with truths and facts. I would like to think, we will never be told such dreadful untruths and be coaxed into beliefs and actions, in this way again.  However, only yesterday, I spotted something Covid related, which should be stopped but continues.   

Many thanks to villager Derek for forwarding me the latest email, he received from Coastal Management.  This was in response to his suggestion that gabions may help with regard to the cliff slip, below the Sea Marge.  The email stated, ‘Gabion baskets are possibly a solution but it is too early at this stage to make that decision.’ Yes, this a positive response but why is it taking so long for Coastal Management to make a decision and for villagers to see some positive action?  There have been smaller slumps in this area for years now but instead of taking action earlier, the Council are now faced with a major problem and a more costly one too.

It's always nice to learn something new.  Yesterday evening, we watched Mindful Narrowboat’s latest vlog on YouTube.  Vanessa is currently travelling on canals in the Leeds region and in her vlog, she was enthusing over some large clumps of snowdrops which she told us, are called a hope of snowdrops.  How apt is this, as snowdrops provide our first sign of spring and from then on, we hope better weather is not far off.   As the snowdrops in the village are starting to fade, the bright yellow daffodils are taking their place.  Today’s photo is of a host of daffodils at the junction of Carr Lane with the Mundesley Road.  You will have noticed my using host as the collective name for daffodils, just as William Wordsworth used in his poem, I wandered Lonely as a Cloud.