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Well, the painting worked out okay, I got the fumes out of my room before sleeping in there. And No, nothing in the local news on TV about the Cafe. So, all is good. I would have worried needlessly, and probably made myself ill in the process.
Tomorrow, it is church… Everything has been moved around, so I have no idea where I’ll be sitting… I know most people there by name now, so conversation will still happen, and that is nice for me.
I went to the local recycling centre yesterday… It is amazing what people throw away. I’ve had stuff in worse condition in my home! Like going to carboot sales… Stuff we actually had similar of, and got rid of, years ago! Is it clean? Who knows, it is second hand after all. The only places to wash hands are the toilet cubicles made of plastic, that rarely, if ever have water and soap. To be truthful, you count yourself lucky to find toilet paper after the first hour or so… And yet, they don’t get banned… Hundreds of people, using the loos, touching the sale items, the money, the ice cream cornets…
What about ring-pull opening cans of food and drink… Are they ever really clean? Of course they aren’t, and we’ve had ring-pull cans for maybe 50 plus years now. So that one miniscule speck on something is not necessarily a danger, even when we are able to actually see it. So, in ordinary life, the sooner we get back to just being reasonably clean, the better for us and the planet.
Okay… What about camping holidays… In tents, or caravan sites where we had to use what were weirdly termed as ablutions… Not everyone washed their hands… Or even washed, cos they were ‘on holiday’. And pubs, with the sample peanuts on the bar… A medical survey was carried out in the 1900’s where traces of urine were found on the peanuts in the bowl, I don’t know if people got ill, but a lot would have developed thirst from the salt on them. So they sold more liquids!
A great sales tactic… I need to sleep now, it has been an exhausting couple of days…
God bless you for reading,
Wannabe