David's blog

Not a good day today, pain in the hip is back my telly has broken the weekend has been screwed by some moronic politician and its been raining most of the day   The pubs have to shut due to the fact that people spend time in them I am not sure what sort of regime operates like that, this is really strange as the virus is low here and obviously being in the pub has no impact on the spread of the thing or it would go up. The volume works on the tv but there is no picture for some reason it has been threatening to do this for a while now I guess I could have got it fixed but god knows how long I would have to wait and the volume on it is shit anyway so I decided to splash out on a new one.   I had better beware of spending money as the money I get might be cut next year to pay for all this.

  The weather is better today though not a lot else I went shopping this morning and the town w as quiet as it is these days due to some restrictions.  They are talking about having more restrictions in Wales even though the virus is practically non existent in this county, so obviously I and a lot of people won't be very happy if they do but it seems there are lot of idiots out there who are flouting the rules and making it difficult for everyone else in the process I watched the football this evening and it was difficult to get a decent signal really I will have to find another source for sunday.

It has been a rotten day weather wise and it makes it harder to put up with the pandemic restrictions everything is closed and now the weather closes you in the house too now. There is no sport to go and see outside only on the tv with no crowds, sport is not suppose to be played in empty stadiums well not professional sport anyway. They say there is a vaccine on the way and it will he here by april well I hope so.  I will go to the pub later and see someone who I have no seen for a few weeks but so much has happened a lockdown was introduced the anoouncement of the vaccine thing and english lockdown has started too.   When this is all done life will become 'boring' when or if it goes back to the way things were but it maybe not I suppose we shall see.  It would be hard to describe to someone who had not experienced this pandemic, what it is or was like. I saw a programme on tv earlier and it chronicled the start of the pandemic in Britain it feels so long ago now 

  Whilst ou walking today  I thought of the saying focus on the journey and not on the destination I first heard it in dressing room in taekwondo class it is 20 years ago apparently it feels like yesterday though I have no idea where the time has gone but 20 years seems to have flown by which is a bit disconcerting really, another 20 years and I won't be here probably I heard the saying last night on program about disability and can you be happy if you have one, many people would say no hence the 'poor him' crap that disabled people have to put with the pity I guess the loss is evident or perceived to be there something is missing well its only missing if they were there in the first place.

I had a visit from the gas man this morning it was the first time someone has been in this house for about 9 months besides my sister, he was here to check the boiler. Him coming here made it awkward for me to go and get a parcel from the next town though maybe the weather was a biggerr deterent.  I did venture out in the afternoon and got a bit of my coat stuck in the local drug dealer's house and it has made a hole which I am annnoyed about, the material is not very thick though granted. My hip is sore to it seems worse today even though I thought swimming would help I have done some stretches which hopefully might help.  

Well its the going swimming routine again today of the trying to find a decent spot to swim in hopefully it should not be too difficult its not a very nice day to be going out but I suppose at least its not cold.  I am expecting a parcel apparently but it seems like I will not be in unless it comes in the next hour or so. I am getting a visitor tomorrow it will be a the first tie time in a long while except for my sister, they are coming to have a look at the boiler as they do every year I guess its priority due to safety.  

A week has gone by so quickly it will be a week tomorrow this firebreak thing came to an end the shops are now open though due to lockdown next door and the weather I guess there were not that many people around and some showed their contempt for the measures by keeping their doors clesed or it maybe be in sympathy with the measures next door. The wind and rain are around today as it was yesterday as is my sore hip so I will not  venture out too far today I guess. hopefully I will get a chance to get out for a small stroll to try to get rid of the lemon drizle cake I made yesterday. One of the best inventions regarding the internet is online banking I reckon it is so conveniet but it seems the older generation who may a lot more money are a bit reticent to partake in it I hope I never reach that stage of not being able to take up new things however hard it is.   My bank account is over two hundred miles away and so its not that convenient to go and talk to the bank the branches are als

  It is another sore hip day all I can put it down to is the weather as nothing else seems to be the obvious cause of it , it comes and goes for no apparent reason. the weather today is very autumanla the wind and ran crap which causght me a bit unawares this afternoon, and I got my feet wet, this might mean I might get a cold as sure am not going to catch one any othre way due to the  oandemic measures, this pandameic thing still leaves me bemused in relation to how it happened and the lockdown thing that came smashing into my world in th middle of March and the compounding of my isolation its been a year like no other and hopefully things will improve next year.   I usually get a cold at xmas I doubt very mich I will get one this year as I don't get near people often enough these days

I was told an article I had written in the summer would be in the local paper today and it it was and this is a bit of an achievement as I had not written anything in Welsh since I was at school. The article was about Summerhill school which was here in this village from 1940-45 it was based at Bryn Llewelyn down the road.  I guess I will have to find something else to write about now I am not sure what though at the moment.  

  I developed a hip pain a while ago I went to the doctor he sent me for an xray he said I had arthritis but also sent me to an orthopeadic clinc aswell. In the clinic he said I did have arthritis but it wasnt what was troubling me he said I had a problem with the piriformis muscle . Due to this pandemic I have not been able to go and see the physio so he sent me some exercises when I do them they sometimes make me worse this pain comes and goes but never but I am not able to get rid of it completely it does not stop me from doing things really its just annoying I don't think the exercises do anything but I am not able to go and see anyone about it due to this pandemic lark. I probably should have made an appointment to go swimming this week but its a bit of palaver so I have not bothered they say you can do it online but I am fucked if I knwo how to do it I will have to sort myself out I guess and do it eventually There is usually a fair in the village on the 13 of this month but

I see that they have banned smacking kids in Scotland which is a good thing they should ban it everywhere.  The ban is a kind of acknowledgement that it is wrong to hit kids not that its needed we know its wrong, but the ban sort of brings it out in the open and it can be talked about and hopefully people can be educated about more humain ways of dealing with childre.   Beating children damages them physically and mentally it makes them afraid it also brutalises them and can cause life long problems its basically abuse. They say that smacking is not abuse but its the fact that the line has been crossed and undisciplined adults the irony of it, will not stop at just a small smack and it can lead to abuse which the child can do nothing about well if they can't now at least someone else can now which may save a life or not ruin a life. I think it might be happening Wales soon thankfully.  I was beaten by both parents I could not defend myself as I was a child but I was a bit more vuln

Donald Trump is finally gone a horrible man i finally kicked out, I am not American but have had to listen to his crap on the news for the last 4 years which have felt like 40.  He is not going to go as quiet as we would like but he will eventually go. It is a nice day today weather wise and I went to Lidl to do some shopping I did not want anything well I did not think I wanted anything but I managed to get a lot of stuff in the basket it will save me having to go tomorrow I suppose but then I have to find something else to do which as its going to be a nice day weather wise should not be too hard to do.   This is the last weekend of the firebreak thing when the traffic has been quitet and shops not selling food have been shut in Lidl they had turned the 'non' essential stuff round they had not covered them this not essential thing was a load of bollox but I can what they were trying do but they had not thought it through properly obviously. There has been hardly anyone around

 II have been wantng to go walking up a path in the next town but I am not able to find it as I can't read mmaps too well. I went to look for thepath but could not find it the last tiem I went to look for it .  Sotoday I went and had another go to find this path, this time I thought I would ask ssomeone but it being a lockdo wn there was no one around  butttttt today there was someone around luckily who gave me the directios I was no sure I could follow them vut off I went and I managed to follow them and found the route

  Its hard not to wonder what kind of place this society will be to live in after all this is over whenever that is.  On Monday restictions in Wales are over and I can go back to the pub and back swimming, while England has a month of these restictions I don't envy the people two weeks has been bad enough due to the mental health strain of the isolation I am not sure I could manage 4 weeeks There some benefits, the peace and quiet for one I guess and I am saving money  but it is the peace and quiet that is the best thing I suppose the absence of traffic noise I am not too sure if I will be able to deal with the noise coming back I seem to adjust ok last time.  After the last lockdown I thought I would never experience a traffic free environment again but it has happened I have been walking on the main road pretty often in the last couple of weeks and its been great having the road to myself and I still have 4 days maybe more as the English are in lockdown from tonight I feel sorry

It is the American president election today its hard to believe four years has gone already I predicted Trump would have been shot before the end of his year in office but that did not happen, I don't think he will get another 4 years due to the way he has handled the pandemic for one thing and his treatment of refugees. I heard yesterday the bus company who serves this place is stopping but there is another one taking over which is ok I guess and that the service will change.  The service that is running now has been a bit awkward during the pandemic at times I guess it is related to everyone being a bit on edge. Well the oddness of this year goes on as Wales comes out of its little firebreak England will go into it which is a difficult one as obviously people from England will want to come to Wales to escape the restricions it is a bit a shambles really and smacks of poor communication and working together its all a bit childish on everyones part one blaming the other.

 It seems that the independence of Wales is becoming more prominent, that's what it looks like as the movement Yes Cymru has increased its membership some of the increase in the last few days is due to the controversy regarding the furlough scheme but it seems that the north of England was treated the same. I see this furlough scheme thing as just another injustice of being ruled by another country and that is the crux of my belief in Welsh independence, I think Wales should rule itself so it could regarded as a sovreign state and things could be done to improve it then. I guess I want to live in country that is regarded as a free country not a vessel state of England so its a selfish thing really many might think that Britain is that state for me, its only Britain to England when it suits. The is a border, do people who are a few feet from each other feel different.  Do people who cross the border to live start to see independence as a thing for Wales? I can remember being aware o