On the breakfast news today there was a feature on vandalism and theft of heritage sites. They showed an old farm that had been set ablaze, some 200 year old paving stones that had been nicked ("to break up for a rockery") and a large fortification from one of the World Wars that had been graffiti'd inside. The worst was a Roman settlement that had been ruined by people driving through it in their 4x4s. Probably on the way to picking their kids up from school.
Its a heartbreaking state of affairs, but it occured to me that maybe a lot of people just don't feel a connection with the past, or value it in anyway. After all, todays society is all about now, now, now, and faster, faster, FASTER! There is so much history in this country that it is almost overwhelming, and what do you see when you look to the future? The country being a shadow of its former self, slowly sinking down into obscurity. No jobs, no joy, living in a police state, being fed by nanny robots. The country is cluttered up by relics, reminders of halcyon days.
The main headline on the local news, which is basically a series of comedic interludes, was that the oldest police horse in Manchester has retired. That's the major news for the whole of the north-west of England. No wonder Londoners think everyone else is provincial. Nothing to worry about for us northies though, apart from where the next cheese is coming from.
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