[Margaret Pilkington]

Blazey, you don't find this situation sad purely because of the life you have lived......as you say, you have been brought up in the time when it isn't unusual for folk to 'walk on by'........unlike a lot of us older members. We remember a time when people did what they could to help a fellow human being in trouble.......and they were hard times too, just after the war. This 'helping nature' was the glue that held society together and were what distinguished true communities....so while you know nothing different, you cannot be sad for what has gone because it wasn't in your era......but I am saddened because it WAS in my era.