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scientists and our government are working hard to make us even happier

by sonja berlin-jones

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about

On Monday I again walked to Salisbury. If yr in the south you might remember it as the one day of the last 6 weeks when it wasn't raining all the time. There was even a lot of sunshine. The wet got to my boots and the dreaded thing happened - I sat on a bench in Michelmersh churchyard, which is less than halfway to Salisbury, and found that the upper on my right boot had pretty much come detached from the sole. They were only connected at the toe and at the heel.

Luckily the laces were always too long and I wrapped the surplus lacing round and round the boot, going under the sole via the instep, hoping it was high enough off the ground that the rocky road paths wouldn't wear away the lace too quickly.

Astonishingly it worked. I walked for another 6 hours and reached Salisbury and I was filthy and went to a charity shop and bought some cheap naff tat shoes and threw my boots away and went to the cafe above Dinghams and then to the station and then home.

Along the way I saw my cousin. She was very happy. She's a bit (lot) away with the fairies and that is the best place to be. She is the only person I know who is as annoyingly cheerful as me. Perhaps happiness is genetic after all. More and more I think it largely is.

The only low point in her chat was when she talked about that screeching alarm that "they" are going to send to our (your) (someone's) mobile phone - just as a test - and then in future they'll be able to alert everyone when the local river is about to engulf them, which here in Southampton happens about once every never. But of course the real reason is cos the government thinks that Putin might really bomb us.

So when their phones make a noise - only then will they think about saving their life. Bugger saving it - bugger all savings. Let's spend it. Spend it right now. Today. Everyday when I've been in a job, I've walked out of it. Every table I've sat round and yawned at, I've walked away from. Only the long walks and being alone and being with my favourite ex girlfriend and climbing the mountain where my wife's ashes are scattered (I know - but it wasn't such a cliche back then) and reading all day on my favourite sofa and possibly making something like music - these are the things I will do after I hear the neighbours' phone shrieking about the incoming missile and they are the things I am doing before it.

(most of this was recorded yesterday, a couple of the shorter tracks have appeared already elsewhere, photo London 2023 by Vanessa Oliver)

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released March 30, 2023

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