The Conservatives are making gains in the current elections. What does this say about voter attitudes to the PMs relationship to moral values, reliability, trust, loyalty, credibility with others, integrity and personal financial responsibility. It says that many voters have too many worries bought about by similar government attitudes to them to care and are convinced by the current promises of a magical journey to broad sunlit uplands and unbounded joy perhaps only really achievable in the afterlife? 

 North Hill - in tracks of tanks

 

In days now gone the tanks did roar

Preparing for another shore

To land, to fight a German foe

It really was so long ago.

 

The tracks did bite the moorland grass

And concrete covered tracks and seeds

In Nissans built amongst the trees

The soldiers slept and dreamt of deeds

 

To fight, to die, to challenge, win

Some think it was a mortal sin

But now it’s peace and EUs gone

And  you can hear the moorland song

 

Big Guns did fire and bullets whined

Now cattle roam and springtime skies

Rise over hills and beacons tall

But we should not forget them all

 

They gave their time and some all they had

Remember this when next time you sit

Or roam and hike on North Hills side

Of tanks and tracks and other bits

 

Of holes and bumps, the hidden places

Maybe occasional imagined faces

Of all the things this place could tell

From peaceful moor to bloody hell!

 

Ron Blundell

May 2021

 

 

 East Lyn

 

In clefts of rocks a mighty roar

Echoes round the bend

The dipper dives to seek his prey,

And sounds and smells contrive to send

Sound pictures great and small

 

Of big divides and smaller glens

Of Moses trees and oaken leaves

Of badger, stag and Jenny wren

Of heron tall and small brown trout

Nature doesn’t always shout it out

 

It’s up to us to seek them there

To look and listen sniff and smell

In observation and to tell

Of tiny things that we have seen

And lovely places we have been.

 

Ron Blundell

May 2021