On one of my frequent walks around the village I recently spotted a stack of generators outside our church. They were rather large although not too noisy, and were humming away at the side of the church out of sight of parishioners arriving at the front. Also the hands of the clock in the bell tower were showing not the poetical ten to three, but ten minutes past one instead. It was half past eight.
I assumed there must be some kind of problem with the electrics inside the medieval church, and I asked one of the good poppy-knitters about the generators as she came towards me down the main street this morning. She trilled how wonderful it was now to have a faster broadband and be able to obtain a good signal on her mobile phone without having to hang out of her bedroom window.
I must have looked rather puzzled at her reply, as she went on to explain that there was now a mast installed out of sight inside the bell tower which ran off the generators, which not only improved villagers’ broadbands and phone signals, but also augmented the church’s finances into the bargain. Hmm …who knew the church was so cash-strapped?
I had previously not had any problem with broadband or with phone signals, but recently, since the generators had been installed, have often had to put up with an interrupted broadband instead. Several times every day our Internet crashes, although it seems that speaking to Mrs Poppy Knitter, her broadband is now faster than ever.
Another hmm… do I want a radiation-emitting mast within a short distance of my home? I’ve already fought my cancer battle, and do not fancy going through it all again. Sad to say it appears that the mast is here to stay, whether we like it or not.
Oh… and the church clock? Mrs PK said that ‘somebody had serviced the clock and now it doesn’t work at all’! Only in Suffolk…
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Stevie Turner said:
Thanks for linking up.
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jenanita01 said:
Where are all the laws to protect us from these known hazards?
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jwebster2 said:
The problem is that for our own convenience we ignore ‘known hazards’ or ‘potential hazards’ because we like the benefits the Hazards bring. After all, everybody reading this page has done so on a computer in spite of the risks
http://emwatch.com/computer-radiation-may-damage-your-health/
it may be that working on a computer is more dangerous than using a mobile phone?
But then I remember people saying that spending too long in front of a Cathode Ray tube TV screen was dangerous as well.
(It probably is but only because being a couch potato is a health risk 🙂 )
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Stevie Turner said:
Some might say even breathing is risky these days…
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jwebster2 said:
have you noticed that only those who breath suffer from illness or accidents? 😉
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jenanita01 said:
It would seem that everything is bad for us, so we should ignore all the warnings and just enjoy what little comfort we can glean…
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Stevie Turner said:
Where money is concerned they tend to go out of the window…
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jenanita01 said:
Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Stevie Turner said:
Thanks for the re-blog!
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robbiesinspiration said:
How interesting that you are from Suffolk. My Mom is from Bungay, Suffolk and we have just written a book about her childhood. I agree with you that the magnetic fields and radiation given off by cell phone towers is dangerous to human health.
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Stevie Turner said:
Yes it is. We villagers never had a say in this at all.
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