ten

Sunday, recovery from the holidays complete now. The pictures are
fine.
The technical camera works.
fine
First thought
Slept

all night.

Now

Sunny, and colder than south of the Alps.
They stop the icy winds from the north before they reach Italy

A few cars under way in the street outside.

Nothing new.
No news.

Memories now
work tomorrow
back to the recriminations, "where where you" when "we" needed "you".

But never mind.
After twenty five years on the job

nothing is personal
discrimination
normal
everywhere.




remember the colleague, a master mechanic,
talks on the aside:
questioned

"you employed a black girl?"
so what?
he declares that he would never have expected that.
oh!.




and he was the friendly man from next door.


It is only in comics that we can see for sure what people are thinking.
text bubbles enclosed in dotted lines








A young woman on a bicycle
stopped by a policeman
Asked for a purchase reciept
as proof that the bicycle had not been stolen.
That was the first time ever that wildo had heard of such a thing.
In Ireland, England, France and Germany.

Memories of work, and the things learnt there about discrimination.

ten bells toll.
Sunday