First of the Month – Time for Reflection

Saturday 1st August

Amazing how the months slip away.  It is August already, quite frightening when you stop and reflect.  And strangely whenever another month is ripped from the calendar I do stop and reflect for a moment.  It is sometimes hard to even recall what has happened during the previous thirty days or so, and what is to come in the next thirty.  We seem so busy, busier than ever in many ways that there is precious little time to look back at the news even.  And ever since the election politics has appeared to be in some sort of limbo anyway, the only tiny bit of interest is the Labour Leadership election – just who will be handed the poisoned chalice?  The Lib-Dems got on with theirs early, and Tim Farron is now the leader of a tiny rump of M.P.s.  One wonders if they will ever be a force again in politics, yet is only five years ago and they were all powerful kingmakers. Now, despite voting Tory, the country thinks “More Fool Them” for going into the Coalition.”

We have had an incredibly hot July here in Eymet, but in the last two or three days it has cooled down.  It looks like getting hot again next week, but in a strange way you do get used to the constant heat.  It bothers you less, you get used to sleeping on top of the bedclothes, you take at least two showers a day, and then when the temperature slips down to 20 or so everyone is complaining about how cold it is.  Life goes on and the months slip past so quickly.  I have been retired for three months now, or almost, because I still have the one customer, which only requires any real work a few days a month.  It is sometimes hard to recall how I filled my days.  With stress mostly I think.  Anyway, August is upon us, and soon it will be Autumn.  It is high summer and a time for reflection, but only for a moment.  Leave the past behind, the future is unknowable and live in the ever-present present.  Have a good month….