Had a walk along the beachfront this evening. It was a beautiful night, the SHG was only at about half strength, and I felt good. Then, I noticed the green plastic bags. Since I was last at the beach, plastic bags have appeared around new plants in the dunes, hundreds of green ones held up with sticks, for about a hundred metres along the dunes in both directions. Talk about visual pollution. They look awful, and they’ll be there for years. Just leave the dunes to fend for themselves. They’ve managed for the past 10,000 years. Do-gooders and their egos.
Then, on the way back to my car, I passed that homeless lady. She’d finished her ablutions and was pushing her trolley to who knows where. She caught my eye, so I nodded at her and smiled. Are you supposed to do that with homeless people? Anyway, she sort of acknowledged me, then quickly looked away and carried on. I’m beginning to resent her. It’s making me feel guilty, even though I haven’t done anything. Hmm, maybe that’s the problem.