How to be part of – without having to pay membership fees.

As one grows older the need to communicate with ones peers does not diminish – so what is the solution?

To have a holiday from being you.

This is good for your health (caughs and colds excepted) and is a good way of maintaining contact and learning what is going on in your community.

To this end i make it a must to select a cafee or meeting place and do just that once a week.

Unfortunately to this end i have been rather sucessful

The Following Morning

So i have developed a program. Mainly serious items that i have been slowly working on for a long time and they are all connected – no not in the sense that “i made them” no there is a common thread which goes far beyond that – it is about people, how they are and how society is and has always been.

We live in a marvelous world. What we have around us is pure magic, no other way of describing it.

What are we?

Who are we?

Why do we exist?

Simple, to experience, then we die. All living things do the same so why should we consider ourselves different in any way?

We all live in our different worlds – some appear grim, others happy, charming, involved, successful. But underneath we are all the same. Some choose to have an open world, open to all new experiences – others a closed world where everything is carefully regulated/ordered – no strange things/people allowed. This is a bit sad for all of us as a successful society is one full of inclusions – one where things that benefit everyone can be done.

The Norwegian society/way of life is pretty good on the whole. i have never met a more relaxed or inclusive social life, but as all there are problems. Staying with the good, wherever you go there are people who are prepared to go out of their way to help/make things work. Sometimes it may be just helping to push the car, others its far more.

Forgetting the cash card but having cash – no problem, just wait and ask. Local shopkeeper asked if i wanted a boat – free, quite a big one too. It sits in my park behind me as i write – firewood, no problem if the chainsaw is working – and more. If you wait the good nature of the people around always shines through – BUT

The biggest but is the breaking of the law in support of something – what deeply concerns me is the way the police and the local authorities collude in this. Illegal burning – this area was plagued by the burning of farm waste, (household as well) This was caused by a firm which was supposed to collect but didnt, and the authorities did nothing apart from turning a blind eye to burning, and i have heard even suggesting it.

This led to farmers burning everything – fires burning for days and a horrible stink of plastic in the air. (distribution of pcbs, dioxins and worse)

I called the firebrigade out to a fire leaving a column of black smoke some 30 meters by 8 – they said they couldnt see it – when they finally admitted they tried to put it out, that was the end of it except for the heavy bullying i got for months afterwards (now sorted)

Now its the destruction of baby seagulls under the guise of clearing flat roofs – its illegal under any circumstances but the police deny responsibility as does the council – the higher authorities will as always reply with “its not our responsibility”. ยจ

Its fine to help friends but not fine to break the law – the police do not own the law either, their job is to enforce it.

As an environmental activist it disgusts me that people have so little regard for life, care so little for it too – they say “whats it got to do with me?” Its got everything to do with you. The reason why the uks tap water is so disgusting is that the activists were not supported enough – the reason why there is so much pollution is that the big companies were not afraid to pollute because there were few consequences and when the issues came to light, they just shrugged their shoulders and said “whats it got to do with me?

In my youth i got into all sorts of trouble for making a fuss over something that was not right — i still do. I even have people (who should know better) ringing me up to tell me that – i say my job is to make life better for everyone and worse for you.