The Captains garden, yesterday - glorious but with a cold wind.
Had a couple of visits from a young man whose job it is to up date the electric meters hereabouts with new computers. Effectively, his job is to make himself and his comrades redundant. He was not happy about this, nor about the work ethic nowadays which is punishing. Had an interesting talk (he worked throughout, of course -) about the disappearance of human work and the rise of digital life. People in France are very pessimistic, he said. He has two little children and no idea what their future will be. He didn't like the parties of the left nor of the right - and anyway, no-one does anything whatever they say in elections. The Gilles Jeunes are a busted flush.
Interestingly, he didn't understand why France won't allow the wearing of the burkha when in England and America its OK; whatever happened to Liberty?? But the principles of laicisation were solid, he thought. Equality in all.
Fabulous country to live in :)
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