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Future Values

I hope in the future professions such as nursing social carers transport staff cleaners shop workers postal workers refuse collectors utility workers and any others that provide essential services will be seen as respected professions and not as just a job to go into if you are not an academic achiever.


Too often our young people are encouraged to go to university and leave unable to find work. Would it not be better to improve salaries and have the public appreciate that these roles are equally as important as any other in the smooth running of society.


Created By on 23/04/2020

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28th Apr 2020 17:13:02 (Last activity: 2nd May 2020 22:22:17)
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Response from PurpleHat made on 28th Apr 2020 23:10:41
Wise words indeed Lionel, but I fear Wisdom only grows with hard Experience Maybe this is one of those times. So glad to see you still safe and posting!
Response from PurpleHat made on 29th Apr 2020 11:08:14
As a child in wartime I went out into the fields with my mother, fruit picking and hop-picking in Kent and East Sussex to earn a few extra pounds to supplement the allowance we had from the RAF when my father was drafted into the services, which was £3. 2/6 a week (including 10/6 for me) as I remember.I loved those times. We were pea-picking on D-Day!
My heart has always been in the country and all things natural, and it hurts to see how few insects, butterflies and creatures I see today compared with those times.
Crop rotation kept the land healthy and productive. My father kept an allotment which he tended on his leave times, and Mum and I kept while he was away. We never went short of fresh veg.
You have nothing to apologise for, I have seen the land in the east and elsewhere with all hedges destroyed to allow the passage of huge agricultural machines and the soil deprived with the overuse of chemicals and bare of wildlife. It has been allowed to go too far, and we need to respect the earth again or perish. More plagues and disasters will follow i have no doubt if the lessons we are being taught now are not applied.
I grew up on odd-shaped veg and unwashed potatoes and lettuces that had a flavour unlike mass-produced ones.
Response from PurpleHat made on 30th Apr 2020 17:02:44
Happily there are no huge farms around me, the land will not support crops, only sheep, a few cattle, and the free-ranging ponies on the moor, though they are not so plentiful now the market for horses has dropped away. More's the pity!.

. The fields are ancient meadow mostly, only fertilized for a cut of hay, Rattle,Colts-foot, clover and the like, the odd orchid, but a joy to see when in flower. I have seen orange-tip butterflies this week and Peacocks mostly. It lifts my heart.

Given a chance,Nature rebuilds .I salute those who choose to give her a helping hand.
Too many Factory Farms are run as money-making investments for Funds and by managers it seems.
Sadly it appears to be Experts who only ever studied in College or University that run everything now,and not for the better. I share your hopes that things may change.

I'd like to have had your Gran's recipe for Rob! I've not heard that before! I have made Elderberry wine, in the past we used to make a lot of Country wines and Ginger Beer for the children, Not lately though. I must think about it if I can find any Demijohns! Cheers.
Response from PurpleHat made on 2nd May 2020 22:22:17
Thank for that! the elderflower will be in blossom soon, The old Magnolia is going over and dropping on the grass and the crab apple etc has come out in the last 24 hours.

Late Onset Hay-fever! Tell me about it! I always thought I had a summer cold, but it turns out to be just that Lasts about 6 weeks. Pills make me feel worse, so I just keep with the Olbas Oil inhalant.

My Management specimen was a chap whose main recommendation was a Rowing Blue from Cambridge who was employed to run the Dept.. My comments on his efficiency shall remain unwritten.

I left soon after to take up the position of full time trainee farm manager's wife and general dog's body on a tobacco farm in Rhodesia. One of my jobs was to take sick parade of the farm workers and families every morning Thank Goodness for my Girl Guide First Aid Badges!!! A long time ago now when I was young! We came back to the UK after 4 years when things went bad out there and there was no foreseeable future. I loved the land and was sad to leave, but not the apartheid or the snakes! I am not afraid of spiders any more, ours don't bite!
MollyUK
24th Apr 2020 08:55:20
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A good move would be to encourage companies to offer apprenticeships again. Real apprenticeships, I mean, not the phoney ones we have now. Four days a week learning the various parts of their job, plus one day-release at college to learn the theories. My husband remembers his dad saying, "Get a trade in your fingers, THEN you can think about doing what you want to do." It worked - he did an engineering apprenticeship (with the all-important college day release) and ended up working as a lecturer in engineering science. Not bad for the son of a brickie's mate! Young people don't seem to have the same standard of opportunity these days, never mind "going to uni" which doesn't seem to do many of them a lot of good. Vocational education eventually keeps a country running.
PurpleHat
23rd Apr 2020 23:29:24
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Where does one start? Any one who does a decent day's work, producing, providing a service, making our daily lives smoother, cleaner, and more trouble free in any way and in the process earning a living, deserves respect and to be appreciated and treated accordingly. We all have differing abilities which are of equal value to mankind and not to recognise this is pure snobbishness whether from either Duke or Dustman.

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