It began with a question which suddenly occurred to me: whether there are vague parallels between the recent riots in the UK and Kristallnacht in 1938 Germany. I began to identify the similarities and differences, the differences including the reaction of our government which was quite the opposite of Hitler’s National Socialists. But then, Hitler’s National Socialists promoted the exercise in the first place and didn’t win in the end anyway. Is that relevant perhaps?
But then, as usual, all the musings and questions and considerations fragmented and faded into the mists of distractions and more pressing priorities, and the long post didn’t get made. This is becoming a trend. And maybe I’m imagining demons where there aren’t any.
I’m also beginning to suspect that my blog might be being monitored, apparently from Singapore. Why would anybody do that? The blog doesn’t function as a social media platform and I’m no sort of influencer. In fact, I’m not any sort of anything. And yet I can’t think of any other explanation for the strange pattern of visits Blogger stats says I’m receiving. Probably more imaginary demons, I expect, but if two men in black suits turn up at my door (and they’re not Mormon missionaries), I’ll let you know (assuming I don’t disappear altogether. And I’ll probably let you know if they are Mormon missionaries.)
It’s a scary old world sometimes, isn’t it? I could write a long post about my countless and fruitless attempts to find out what’s happening about my annual CT scans which are a month overdue already. It seems that nobody in the CT/MRI department at the Royal Derby Hospital is picking the phone up these days. And when I rang the switchboard number to see whether I could access the department that way, my call went straight to Mental Health Services. Scary.
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