02-03-2022, 05:09 PM
I was already bracing myself for a hefty rise. The current situation is likely to make the situation worse but I think we have to swallow that. The effects of Covid had already greatly changed and curtailed my plans and the fall-out from current crisis will only exacerbate the situation. (Unfortunate expression: let’s hope there’s no fall-out in the original meaning of the word.) At least we have our homes and are not living in the cellar.
I think we will go back to how things were when I was a child. We lived in a reasonable property. The only rooms that were heated were the kitchen by the range cooker which also gave us hot water and the living room and so in winter we lived in two rooms. I did my school homework and my early excursions with a soldering iron on the kitchen table. In the depths of winter I hated getting out of bed and envied the dog who slept under the kitchen table. Sometimes we decamped to the front room at Christmas and it was a novelty to be in different surroundings and see the fire blazing away in there instead.
Looking back we have lived very cheaply in recent years and have been fortunate to experience the greatest time of plenty and luxury since humans emerged out of the swamp. My grandparents were born in the 1870s and of course are very long gone. The height of modern tech for both couples was ownership of a ‘wireless’. I often wonder what they would make of the luxuries of modern life we have taken for granted.
I think we will go back to how things were when I was a child. We lived in a reasonable property. The only rooms that were heated were the kitchen by the range cooker which also gave us hot water and the living room and so in winter we lived in two rooms. I did my school homework and my early excursions with a soldering iron on the kitchen table. In the depths of winter I hated getting out of bed and envied the dog who slept under the kitchen table. Sometimes we decamped to the front room at Christmas and it was a novelty to be in different surroundings and see the fire blazing away in there instead.
Looking back we have lived very cheaply in recent years and have been fortunate to experience the greatest time of plenty and luxury since humans emerged out of the swamp. My grandparents were born in the 1870s and of course are very long gone. The height of modern tech for both couples was ownership of a ‘wireless’. I often wonder what they would make of the luxuries of modern life we have taken for granted.
Nick
