If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other in The View from the Terrace

Hubby has gone to the folk club this evening. It is one of my not well days and I didn’t feel up to it so I stayed home. I have just been watching East Enders on the laptop. The TV still isn’t getting any BBC channels. After Storm Hannah at the weekend we couldn’t get any channels at all but Hubby went up the ladder and moved the aerial and now we can get everything but BBC again. Roll on Friday when the new TV arrives.

I have discovered that the BBC iplayer has an archive section where you can find programmes from the 50s and 60s. Yesterday I watched one of the Face to Face programmes with John Freeman interviewing Carl Gustave Jung. It was fascinating. I didn’t follow this series when it was originally on as I would only have been in my early teens but I did watch one programme, an interview with Adam Faith in 1960. He was my idol at that time and I remember watching the programme with Mum and Dad. In fact I recorded it on my tape recorder. When that interview was over and the music was playing Dad said ‘Very good’, and it came out on the recording. Dad died two years later and I listened over and over again to his voice for several years. So it wasn’t surprising that when I heard the final music after the interview with Jung I heard Dad’s voice in my head and then memories came flooding back. I was in that living room in Shrewsbury again with Mum and Dad. I even remember where I was sitting and for the rest of the evening I kept thinking of Dad and feeling sad. It’s 57 years since he died, it’s strange how a piece of music can bring all of those feelings back. I’m planning to watch some more of those interviews. They have ones with Martin Luther King, Bertrand Russell and Stirling Moss among others. I hope I don’t get those feelings of sadness again though.

The recent storms have played havoc with the garden. I re potted some of the plants twice as they kept falling off the patio table. The goat willow tree at the bottom of the garden has partly uprooted and is now leaning over and resting on the hedge. We are going to see if we can save it. Sunday was sunny and much calmer and I managed to spend some time out there planting a few more spring flowers. The forsythia is in full bloom and the magnolia is looking beautiful. I did take photos but my laptop is playing up and refusing to download anything from my camera and I can’t work out how to upload photos to Image Shack from my phone. I have posted them on Facebook.

I found the quote I used for the title on You Tube a few days ago among the comments for a song. It is from Mother Theresa and it felt so appropriate after the terrible happenings in New Zealand. I have heard so often that religion causes all of the problems in the world. I don’t agree, I think religion is one of the excuses we use to divide ourselves into us and them. It can also be race, even social class. We seem to have a need to divide ourselves into groups when we should be uniting on our common journey. In truth we are all simply members of the human race and we all belong to each other.

Last updated March 20, 2019