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Think Global 🌎 Act Local

Joey JonesLeave a comment

How would you design the city of the future?

Okay, I get it. We need to attract wealthy overseas visitors into London. We want them staying at likes of Claridges or Lanesboro.Spending money down Bond or Dover Street. We are happy for them to eat at The Ritz or Ledbury and visit the Royal Ballet and Opera. Having done that, they can tour the rest of the UK.

So let’s just leave the cities as they are for now.

HS2, that whitest of White Elephants, as of April this year, has already cost £40.5 billion.

Imagine if that money had been put into local services? Closed stations and lines opened up. Rejuvenated. Good public transport for those in Sticksville. Allowing folk to get around their own parts of the country with ease and comfort.

Regular markets with fresh produce now easily travelled to and small business benefiting from the footfall.

With ‘Made in Britain’ once again on the forefront of our minds, encouraged and rewarded and craftsmanship recognised  and respected…Britain could be great.

Hats off to William Morris for fighting the Industrial Revolution!

Write on

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What do you enjoy most about writing?

A few weeks back WP congratulated me on 16 years with them. I had no idea. Blogs have come and gone over the years, most of them deleted. Tomorrow though I will have reached a 200 day streak. So it looks like I may be here to stay this time. I thank you all who have joined me. I’m meeting some cool people here. Like minded souls trying to make sense of this world. Our world, as we see it.

As long as I can remember I have loved reading and writing. ( Sadly, at present reading books is taking a back seat) My first real story was when I was about 10..of course there is a story behind that too, which I will keep for another day.

But as Mae ( you maybe subscribed to her) has already said this morning it’s finding that one space, that’s yours. Free airspace not clouded by others. She’s right, with the stars aligned; time, space, place, a steady pace of life where writing just slips on in there like the most natural thing in the world.Allowing those thoughts and ideas to surface. No holds barred. Letting them out, leaving a less cluttered area in my head.

Im a bit dismayed many are using so much AI for their blogs ( I don’t fear AI at all. Quite the contrary I’m slightly in awe of it) It just feels we may be losing authenticity. Losing the voices with their own stories to tell. Heavens only knows how journalists the world over must feel as they see their craft disappear.

But that’s simply my humble opinion. There’s no stopping AI now.

Each morning I throw open the windows, doors and dusty cupboards in my head and see what can be made of our Daily Prompt..as natural as breathing.