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Out of bounds – CONTRASTS OF A CITY
I took both these photos in Berlin last year (the courageous young man is my dad). If I could take the weather with me and were a little younger… I think I might want to give it another chance in my life. Don’t know if it’s the age or just the effects of living for too long on an island that’s too small for comfort sometimes… but I really miss my hometown, and with it all the possibilities it has.
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The law is an ass – at least in Gharb!
A policeman starts his duty in Gharb early in the morning and probably thinks he’s struck gold, finding cars parked on yellow lines. Even more so because there’s a hire car among them… what’s new, hux? So hubby, who parked that jeep – and pleads guilty as charged, but parking, too, is an ass in this village – finds that he received a parking fine at 06:15 a.m.
But – and this is why law really is an ass in this place – others got scot-free, like this vehicle which doesn’t just infringe on the yellow lines but also presents a serious obstacle to those using the alley exactly opposite it…
And I might add that this sort of discrimination is a regular, despicable practice in Gharb. (You might recall earlier blog posts of mine about this sad subject.) The icing on the cake: when hubby confronted the policeman with the allegation that he’d fined him because it was a hire-car, this supposed guard of law and order threatened him not to interfere with this work, “tindahhalx f’xogholi”. Lovely, isn’t it? On two occasions I asked policemen for help when I was not able to access our garage because of vehicles blocking the way, and both times I was made to feel as though it was me who’d broken the law. Law?! Hallini…
