I went to
see my cardiologist this morning for my annual check up. I had made my
appointment a year ago at the end of my last check up. Short of collapsing in
the street with a heart attack one is advised to fix the date a year in advance.
A very
pleasant woman, she asked if I minded an intern being present. A young girl who
didn’t look much out of her teens.
I forgot
about the hour and a half in the waiting room. Whilst I was there I noticed the
other five people present; two other men and three women. I also noted that all
of the men were wearing highly polished proper shoes. The women were also
wearing good quality shoes. I’m so used to seeing people wearing “des baskets”
on their feet it was a pleasant surprise. I've even seen people wearing "des baskets' to funerals. I think they used to be called ‘plimsols’
when I was at school. I doubt that anyone born after the war knows what that
means. We wore them for gymnastics. I imagine there is quite a decent class of
people at my cardiologists, albeit of a certain age.
In the mean
time the world goes on in France. For French politics I think we may now apply
an American word. MAD. Mad as in a “Mad Hatter” but also in the American sense
of Mutually Assured Destruction. That's where all the parties are headed. Well perhaps one will survive and that will really mean the destruction of the 5th Republic if nothing else.
A case of
police brutality at a politically sensitive time leading to the usual riots in
the down and out suburban immigrant estates.
An
explosion at a nuclear plant this morning, which even if not nuclear will open a whole knew
kettle of fish. I woder what the English living near Hinkley Point will think about it. One shouldn't have to worry about such things in rural Somerset.
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