Silent Feeders

If there is anybody left who is not fed up with my banging on about the letter TELLING me, that I need a Doctor note to sign of on my events this year because I am over 75, then please don’t stop reading because I am planning shortly to give the moaning a rest and be more general about being trodden on. 

Yes, of course I COULD get a doctor to do that for me without too much trouble. The question is, do we stand by our principles or do we cave in when a very large group try to make you do something that is really not right. Not legal either I believe, to use discrimination of any kind against any group, minority or not. Some people have said that it’s such a little thing, why not just do it? Well because that would make it ok, and its not. 

To refuse to renew my membership , due at the end of May, would be damaging to me. I would not be able to qualify to gain a place on the GBR team for National, European, and World Championships. I would not have insurance cover for my triathlon activities (not that I have ever made a claim in 26 years).

 

That is the price I would pay for giving in to something I think is wrong. Maybe I am just sulking, which has also been said. 

Moths

Silent but deadly little things wouldn’t you say

They look harmless enough fluttering about at play

Tiny little flecks of beige wings like paper

When you clap at them they break up like vapour

Uninvited guests that move in when your back is turned

This is a lesson that only through time is learned

They hide in your closets and not by your leave

No rent is paid and they eat up half a sleeve

Of that nice woollen coat you kept so long for best

Might as well come back now and chew through the rest

Moths are the reincarnation of bad friends we’ve had so long

Don’t realise the damage until long after they are gone