Miscellaneous

[poliphilo]

The weather has changed- I can feel it in me bones. Yes, I really can these days; it's like flu without the head-cold.

I was looking at my LJ for 2008. Back then I could post a review of an obscure late story by Kipling- and get nearly 30 comments- 50+ if you count my replies. Them days is dead and gone.

My mother's carers come from all over; the one we see most of is from the Philippines. The drivers who deliver our parcels (who work for Amazon, Argos etc) are even more cosmopolitan: they're from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe. This is what immigration looks like. Without immigrants our society would seize up.

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[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Same here. Ray just saw a doctor (Chinese), we have builders working on our altan (Lithuanian), a new grocer opened in town (Afghani) and a lovely pizza restaurant near-by (Kurdish). And this is a village (Swedish definition) of 4,500.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's impressive. Villages round here are affluent and monocultural- though the towns (Tonbridge for instance) are fairly diverse.