[Doug]

In the time we’re living in no one should be really alone or be in fear of going unnoticed, especially if your getting on a bit, suffer from ill health or just not someone who mix’s very much. Unfortunately is this day and age people are always afraid of being classed has being nosey or patronising by keeping an eye on or in touch with estranged family or older infirm neighbours.

On the news tonight was a story of a lady who has died after falling between furniture and being unable to get herself up again. This tragedy happened not two far from where I live and just behind a family member’s house. It is sad and disturbing that you can go unnoticed. We face a sever winter this year, more than in recent years. Perhaps we can make an effort ourselves to keep an eye open and ask if someone as gone unnoticed, rather than do noting. It might not be important to us at the time, but to someone it might be an alarm call, to others it might be the very difference between life and death……