24th - 1955 More than 70 British roads were blocked by snow during the 'Big Freeze.'
Instead of counting your days, make your days count.
These sayings are so helpful, not, sometimes life is about counting days and others about days that count . I am not sure which is me at the mo - I think trying to make the days count.
25th - 1972 British miners voted to end their crippling 7-week strike.
I remember this time so clearly. As a very young, but already gaining Socialist ideals this felt like a terrible defeat. It felt like things were going to change forever. Somethings needed to - some Unions were using their power as badly as politicians but it was sad to see honest working men defeated, families broken and the understanding the whole communities would change forever. And it did change politics forever, I think this was the point when money, power, corruption all that is bad in our country took over. When banks didn't care about customers anymore, when money became king. It meant Margaret Thatcher could happen. Not good, not good.
We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
Unfortunately this is so true - in both a wider and a personal context. I think it should also say 'and so we suffer the consequences from our inability to learn from history.'
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That last one is so true. We seem fixated on progression of Science and technology. Everything has to be bigger, better, faster, but very few people seem bothered about bettering our attitudes towards others, ourselves and our environment.
We just repeat the same mistakes over and over again, ignoring the past. The mistakes just get bigger as the advances in technology and science give us more effective ways to hurt each other.
Wow, I sound so up my own bum!
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