Revelations of possible distaste
Recently, I returned
to my usual walking route, and it was interesting to observe the things that
have changed around my city. Hoardings, fencing, and boards erected around erstwhile
building sites that usually took over pavements and sometimes the whole lane of
a street have come down to reveal architectural carbuncles of barely occupied
apartment blocks with signs offering the ground floors for commercial activity.
Two supermarkets have
opened, even a college needing the tape to be cut by some dignitary seeks some
social activity in the not-too-distant future. Elsewhere, roads have been
cordoned off or blocked for reconstruction or repairs, too many to the detriment
of pedestrians as me and worst still for those with mobility requirements. As temporary
traffic lights have been installed for vehicular traffic with no option or consideration
for pedestrians as our crossing are now out of use requiring detours to
somewhere without rerouting.
Rats in the city
Walking up a slightly
secluded road, in just 10 footsteps I saw 3 rats, which is scary. They can only
be thriving because there is a food source nearby, this is a harbinger of a rat
infestation if it is not already a menace in that area.
From last Thursday,
when all pandemic restrictions were lifted in England, people have relaxed as
if the pandemic is over. Whilst I am glad, we still wear face masks in church as
I do in all places for my own safety, it is amusing that a prime minister who
has no capacity for exercising personal responsibility now requires us to act
with civic and personal responsibility if we ever contract COVID-19. The rat’s
arse of man.
More striking in all
my observations is the fate of a corner shop that had served a Salford
community for 34 years in an old building on Chapel Street. It has been
demolished and I am unsure of what would take its place. The appearance behind
the hoardings suggests a park, it might well be another unremarkable and
exorbitant edifice seeking forlorn occupancy, who knows? Another case of rats
gnawing on our heritage. We live in interesting times.
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