Haven't felt too well today, the weather is so unsettling. There's thunder and lightning for hours, then unbelievably heavy, crashing rain. It is all so NOISY. I think Bubbles was unsettled too, pacing about, not quite knowing what to do with herself, which is rather how I felt.
So I've just been mostly reading and watching television. I might have mentioned before I am into a series of novels which take place on the south coast in the last war. As I have also mentioned before, I spent most of the war - four and a half years of it - in my Grandma's air raid shelter, so these novels are giving me an interesting insight into the social history of the time.
Also I hadn't realised the extent of the bombing on the south coast. As well as dog fights between the RAF and the incoming Luftwaffe, German planes returning across the Channel used to drop their 'excess' bombs on the South Downs to lighten their load; that is why there are so many bomb craters over the South Downs. Even more curiously, why didn't the Germans drop them all on our cities - did they drop a few, then think they had done enough damage??
An interesting segment on a tv programme was given to the 'Word Police' because there is so much now, isn't there, on political correctness.
No one now is 'fat'. They are 'ample'. And it is not pc to tell someone they have 'lost weight'. It implies they were previously fat - or ample.
Manmade is 'synthetic'. And it is not pc to say 'man power' but I don't know what the alternative is.
We no longer have 'master' bedrooms, and 'ex cons' are now 'returning citizens'. Also because it is not right to own other living creatures, pet owners are now 'pet guardians'.
And I've saved the most absurd till last. A career woman raising a child is a 'domestic engineer'.
Who knew!!!
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