Every so often a plastic bag comes through our letterbox bearing the logo of Oxfam or Save the Children or Cancer Research or some other fundraising organisation, asking us to fill it up with unwanted but still usable stuff and leave it outside the door for collection on a specified day. As a rule I remember this on the collection day when it’s already too late to sort out stuff for them. But yesterday I remembered in time and went through various drawers, reducing the amount of clutter just a little.
It’s quite hard to get rid of stuff. There’s always that nagging feeling that once you have dispatched some item to the charity shop then the very next day you will find a valid reason for keeping it.
Anyway, today I put my bag of stuff out to be collected but forgot to gather some books that nobody in the family will ever read again and take them with me when I went to Tesco. One of the Tesco window ledges is full of donated books, which customers can take, leaving a small donation. A nice bit of recycling!
I made myself get up early to cycle to the market … and then spent far too long looking for my keys. I had tossed them into a bag yesterday and they had annoyingly hidden themselves in a small interior pocket, a pocket of just the right size to hold a mobile phone … several years and models of phones ago!
So much for good intentions!
But I got on my way eventually and found the Donkey Line bridle path remarkably dry despite the heavy at the end of last week. The pathway was partly blocked at one point by a huge broken branch hanging down from a tree, no doubt the consequence of the weekend’s bad weather.
I stopped from time to time to snap photos of autumn colours in the trees.
In the USA national guard troops have been sent into Chicago, despite attempts by the mayor to prevent this from happening. Mr Trump says they are needed to maintain order in the Windy City. There’s a certain similarity between the photo of troops marching into city…
… and this cartoon, which could well be a picture of the future in a number of countries!
And, to finish on a positive note here’s photo of the world’s highest bridge, the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in Southern China.
A thing of beauty as well as a feat of engineering. It took four years to make it. Perhaps projects like the high speed rail links here need some advice from China.
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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