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June 29, 2004
Cheese and nanny-government........
Although Church Mouse has been around for more than a few years, she has a very forward-looking attitude about life and how to live it well, which does not include being told what to do. As mentioned previously by The Monk, she does have a particular predilection for cheese, having been bribed with extra to jump into the breach, here. This topic of cheese [and other food] was triggered by an article in the D-T requesting the public's view on food, diets, and government! Of course, the government won't pay a blind bit of attention to anything the public says, but it's nice that someone has actually asked.
One must admit that is a strange mixture of words at first glance, but, with the current government so overly fond of messing about in every nook and cranny of everyone's life, those words have been thrown together as just one more topic which would justify those bossy-boots at No. 10 and WhiteHall and all other functionary locations sticking their noses in AND imposing yet another set of their rules. CM wonders why they believe that should be, for she does not see any evidence at all that they are possessed and siezed of such superior powers as to justify their right to rule our lives.
Many tourists come to visit CM's Abbey, so she hears many things from people who come from all over the world. She did hear a wonderfully blunt comment, once, from an American that seems most apropos, here: Who died and left you boss? Perhaps we should all be asking that question of every politician of every cant at all times. Maybe, just maybe, we can take back our lives. They are ours, after all, given at birth and supposedly ours to do with the best we can, not commanded by others who have usurped that right.
Posted by The Gray Monk at June 29, 2004 11:33 AM