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Stay safe everybody.
Throughout history, pandemics and epidemics have ravaged the world. Always humanity has survived and come out the other side.
Keep as safe as you can, don't do anything silly and humanity will come out of this one too.
All over the world, scientists are working for a cure. Eventually they will find one.
Keep the faith.
Love
Helen Susan.

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alan20 · M

Near where I live ( in Tyrone ) there are two mountains - Bessie Belle and Mary Grey , named after two Scottish lasses. Their families sent them here to escape the Plague, poor cutties. I've climbed the first.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 Did they escape the plague?

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift Do you think us morbids would have named our mountains after them if they had? 💚

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 Good point. To travel hopefully, as RLS said, is better than to arrive and these ladies at least had the hope, and arrived at the same predestination.

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift That particular journey I wouldn't wish to embark on but I have to accept being born I am inevitably on it. The best we can hope for is a pain-free exit from the stagecoach. Is it in order for me to wish you a Happy Valentine's Day? I have cousins in Scotland : Motherwell, to be exact.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 Thank you for the Happy Valentine's Day - and the same back to you! I have never been to Motherwell- but my man is from Ayr, not so very far away.

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift Never been to Ayr. I've a brother who lives in Dundee. Perhaps I can quote you a favourite line of mine, penned by Shaw ( I think ). It's hardly appropriate but its nice :- Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. Actually, I think it was Yeats. I'm a poet of the piano, not words.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 Dundee I know very well indeed. We lived there for a while; my man worked at the rig-breaking and I was in the uni library.

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift My brother is a professor at Dundee University, but I'd better not identify him. I'm thinking of a story for you but I'll have to wait till I get the time.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 A professor - far above my level!

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift Oh he's not a stuck-up intellectual ; we're both very cynical about that lot ! The story I'm hoping to write might explain something of my background.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 Some of the professors were very down to earth. Others lived in a wee world apart from reality.

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift My brother's appointment caused quite a furore as he is very left- wing and has written several books which pulled no punches. Apparently he was popular with the students.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 What is his subject?

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift Politics

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 Not my favourite subject - and a hard one to teach.

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift I agree! I'm left-wing but not as committed as he, though I think he's mellowing. How he can be bothered writing the history of political parties he disagrees with is beyond me.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 My politics are very simple - maybe even simplistic! I think writing the history of political parties would be tedious so the best of luck to him.

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift I'm hoping for a Labour government in two years ; Brexit was a disaster.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 Brexit was an example of the unprincipled fooling the uneducated and xenophobic.

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift Exactly, the demolition of an ideal for selfish gain. It intrigued me how they used to claim Churchill as their champion. I once read the whole of his History of the English Speaking Peoples and I recall him advocating an economic union as the only way of ending war in Europe.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 Churchill was fully in support of the Common Market - he was an internationalist all the way.

alan20 · M

@helensusanswift Inspiring the country to stand up to fascism was his finest achievement. I once visited a place where he regularly visited to paint, with a crate of booze in his car. Drink driving laws must have been lax. I'm not sure but I think it might have been in Crete.

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@alan20 He was an egoistical, depressive, self centred immature man with a terrible grasp of military strategy and an over-inflated idea of his own intelligence - and a genius who held freedom in the palm of his hand.