What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
In respect of my heritage, history has always fascinated me, and now it annoys me in equal measures.
What fascinates me as it always has, since back in my childhood days, is that I love to know how people worked, lived and managed to survive in a period of time when just one random off the cuff comment could have you accused of many a crime. God forbid if you said anything about the establishment as you’d probably be missing your head before too long.
And the annoying part is that we are in a society where groups of individuals are wanting to cancel everything. People are wanting to wipe out history because they disagree with what happened. That’s history folks! The fact that we don’t (in general, good society, anyway) go around inflicting on the populace accusations of “Witchcraft” “Heresy” and whatever, means we have learned something from that history. We generally don’t make the mistakes of the past as we have become better people and learned from that horrific history that pre dates us all.
I can’t get enough of history, it’s potentially my favourite subject and I will gladly overdose on it in either book or film format. I just love it.
I don’t feel the urge to go and lop off someone’s head, or to take part in hanging, drawing and quartering anyone (not today anyway….) and that’s because we have all learnt, and moved on from those terrible times. We learn from the mistakes of the past, and to wipe out history leaves us in the unenviable position of not knowing the difference between right and wrong, we might as well all go and bury our heads in the sand and just imagine it never happened.
I have news for you Sherlock, it did happen, and as long as we learn, develop and make better then we are being taught by our historical misdemeanours, hopefully to never venture back to those dark old days.
Cancelling solves nothing. In the words of the Jamaican activist- Marcus Garvey,
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”
And he isn’t wrong, I used to have a tee shirt with that on it in my teenage years..
History, it shapes our futures. Don’t cancel it.
Have a superb day…
Foxes Den 
Another history lover here. Seems like cancelling history is because some people are uncomfortable or it doesn’t fit with beliefs.
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Exactly 👍
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I am a history lover as well- and I cannot imagine what is possessing the powers that be to detract from what little stinted history they actually teach us instead of broadening the publics horizons by telling a true and accurate history- that is available to the seeker- but never taught.
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Exactly Violet, hope you are well 🙏
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i also love the history of Great Britain. namely, their absolute command of the seas. it’s a fascinating aspect of your history to look at!
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how’s the house stuff going? Mike
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Hi Mike, thanks for asking. It’s that period of non activity that gives the solicitors time to add up how much we owe 😂
Seriously, it’s all the letters and checks going on. Everything our end is done as such, we are awaiting activity from lower down the chain where there doesn’t seem to be much activity. It’s why I’ve been absent lately, packing and patching up seems to be my life at the moment, I can’t complain….but I do have the occasional whinge. Hope you are well 👍
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i hear you :) i’m glad it’s proceeding and i hope that the tail end of the process goes fast. it’s good knowing that the gears of progress are creaking along. do be safe and take care! and of course, we’ll be awaiting your next project!
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Thank you Mike, I’ve got two new suppliers of old gear and some fantastic little projects lined up, but it all has to wait until we are settled in. Can’t wait to get back to it all, but priorities lie elsewhere as you’d expect. Thank you for taking the time to chat, it’s very much appreciated 🙏
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