YUH STOP CRYIN’ YET? I feel ’blige to ax dis question, ’cause I know you – an’ all dem ethuh “Thatcherites” – us-ed to regard Margaret Thatcher as someone dat c’n do wrong! Evuhbody din t’ink so doh, but….. dah’s life, some love yuh, ethuhs cyhan stan’ yuh guts!
She gine down in hist’ry, not only as de firs’ female Prime Minister in Britain, but also as a very strong-will woman dat t’ought she decisions was always de right ones! Strikin’ unions – some o’ she bigges’ opponents – could vouch fuh dat when she finally bring dem to duh knees after a year-long strike, Irish freedom fighters ‘pon hunger strike in jail, dyin’ finally from starvation ‘cause she refuse to gi’e in. Two good examples o’ how tough she was! An’ wuh ‘bout de way she handle de apartheid problem? She los’ me when she label Mandela an’ ’e party as “terroris’s!
She was true to she nickname – Iron Lady! Backin’ down from problems wasn’ she style, ’cause she din regard de job as a “popularity contes’” to win votes! To some, she was a saint, fuh ethuhs, a sinner!
I onderstan’ de Queen an’ Prince Philip plan to atten’ de funeral tomorrow, an’ I suppose nuff mo’ “big-ups” gine be dey! You gine? We got a Condolence Book at de local British High Commission!
I sure dat in spite o’ de tears, yuh still int’rested in hearin’ li’l news! Well, sence de Elections, evuht’ing like it gone “flat”! De silence is deafenin’! It seem as ef de “Sleepin’ Giant” gone back doin’ wuh we get ‘ccustom to, an’ de res’, well…………!
Dah “nightly parade” ’pon TV we had to put up wid, befo’ elections, seem to disappear, easy-so! Whey all de “marchers” gone? Only God knows!
Yuh see de odd one at night, but dah’s all! I was beginnin’ to t’ink my TV mussee blow a fuse an’ de pictures dat should be showin’, drop out, so de ethuh night, I start one wile bangin’ ‘pon de box to see ef duh would come back on! It was only when Philomena ax ef I gine off, dat I realize it din de TV, de “parade” really over!
Central Bank figures comin’ out las’ week show de economy movin’, but in de wrong direction – unemployment risin’, tourisses droppin’ (whey dat Master Plan, Minister?) an’ generally, t’ings en lookin’ so hot! Anyway, de Governor say dat when we compare we problems to wuh happenin’ in ethuh places – Cyprus, fuh one – “our reality
is a positive one”! Now, Miss T’ing, hummuch consolation dah is to me? I don’ know whey Cyprus is, I en know whey to fin’ it ‘pon de map, an’ en got de slightes’ int’res in findin’ it, anyway! So whey dah lef’ me? Wishin’ an’ hopin’ an’ prayin’?
I trus’ de guvment en gine got cause to turn to “Ole Faifful NIS” fuh mo’ assistance! Y’know dah like a “bottomless pit”! Philomena show muh a article a Mr Peter Boos write in de paper recently, ’bout de “concerns” o’ dah Scheme, an’ it got muh nerviss sence I read it! I hey now wonderin’ wuh gine happen to my gran’trildrun when duh reach de age to draw out wuh duh now wukkin’ so hard to put in! Lef’ holdin’ a “big rock”? I advisin’ dem to start puttin’ ‘way some pennies – ef dah possible in dese times – in case high win’s durin’ de nex’ few years catspraddle dah Fun’ an’ it disappear!
Well, de onlies’ t’ing is to do wuh my Pastor say – trus’ God an’ tek one day at a time!
Tek care o’ yuhself
Yuh frien’ Babsie
