Another of my bright and colourful nature designs, as a handy totebag 🙂
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Another of my bright and colourful nature designs, as a handy totebag 🙂
(c) K Wicks
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What do you think of when you think of The Hive? Insects? A collective? Or maybe you go for the out there one and think of Resident Evil? I’ll explain how all those angles are correct and relevant.
We are often likened to insects. Our social structure and hierarchy involving a queen, which does seem a rather odd thing when they say men rule the world. Strange that they overlooked those women and others in power. Or did they? But it does appear that our societal structure is being pushed towards a very formal and ordered future. Why individualism and joy are hated quite so much, I don’t actually know other than they must be a threat to the overall system. Like a bug, or a glitch, that if left unchecked rages out of control and spreads, eventually crashing the system. I suspect they view us as the virus, capable of infecting their neat plan of us being drones and workers for their ‘ant farm’.
How far-fetched you might say, and indeed it may be. But I will be as far-fetched as needed from now on as things are escalating at a rather alarming pace. The squeeze they are putting on people from many angles is sinister, unyielding and relentless. And it is all manufactured by the powers that be. The real-life horrors being revealed daily to expose the corruption can’t keep up with the sheer volume of people, places, amounts, motives, conflicts of interest and other things being chucked at the senses daily. Accidental or not, they have made a complete shitshow out of society, and it may have always been on that path with this outcome as the desired result. It now makes a bit more sense why they may have wanted to flood the country with undocumented people from anywhere, because it destabilises the local communities who would ordinarily pull together and help each other through the tough times.
But they don’t want that. They want kindness gone, empathy gone, isolation being a theme, separated from your fellow man by way of fear and suspicion. Then they will bring in punishments for helping others without authorisation. Once everyone is hooked up to their social credit system, with monitored ‘money’ and authorised spend, they will know if you buy more, or something different. They will try any which way to stop people being able to fight for themselves and each other. So, what of the others in this country, the ones who are not from here but by whatever circumstances, find themselves here in the last few years. Some speculate that they will be moved to Canada and there is a general people relocation program occurring. Of which I do agree to a point, as I believe it is much easier to condition and reform, if you displace groups of people and remove/destroy their history, heritage and traditions. My idealistic mind would like to think that wherever people are from, if they find themselves here and needs must, they will fight with us. And that is me being fanciful and maybe watching too many movies where the back-up army appear as if from nowhere to join the ranks, giving the numbers needed to do what is needed.
But what if we could get some social cohesion, of understanding that we are all people and unless differences are put to one side and the similarities in us embraced for basic living, we may not be people any longer. And maybe we already aren’t, as we are currently viewed and treated as a commodity, as chattel, as property. But it would seem that we are a volatile and potentially dangerous commodity, that must be placated and controlled, so we can be ‘of use’. We are at the hands of opportunists. And if we put complete unknowns to one side, they are just people. Crazy, unhinged, disturbed people who happen to be in charge, because we continue to let them – voted for or not, if someone is no longer fit for the role, they must go. And if the role is no longer fit for purpose, then it must go too. They make no sense, lie all the time, steal from the pot, write laws to suit them as they go and people just accept that, it’s outrageous and it’s downright criminal.
They do seem rather hung up on creating augmented humans as well, and sucking us all into their weird meta-verse, so we can have ‘virtual’ lives, rather than real ones. Where we can be drones for their data, but not consuming much of the real resources that they would like to have all for themselves. They are a bit stuck though, as they haven’t quite perfected the machinery from scratch to do away with us completely, and robots aren’t quite good enough and have to be programmed still (as far as we know). So, what to do with us. There will be a time to fill before it is ready and operational, so they use that time to try and prepare us, to get people on board from the beginning so they won’t notice, add more people as you go, creasing out the glitches that arise – and by glitches, I mean people realising what is happening, people trying to unplug, or avoid it. Their goal is to “enhance human capabilities beyond the individual”. So, linking us all up to a central point? Turning us into something only functioning for the greater good rather than for the good of ourselves first? And that greater good is a standard set by people who don’t want humans being humans, and they do not like freedom of choice or individual thought, so I suspect they don’t actually know what the great good is for humanity. They want greater good for them, at the expense of us. And that is perhaps how we ended up being The Hive from resident evil. We worked above ground completely unaware of what they were up to beneath our feet. It never sat well with me that they claimed to have eradicated all these terrible things (viruses), yet kept them, safely in their possession, until needed. And possibly that is how those things really came to be, engineered for control from the start. They are creating a heartless, monitored, sterile society around us and if people don’t notice that and decide they want better, then towards it we will march…

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The tension is building
It almost has taste
While all around us
They’re laying to waste
All that is good
And what came before
Taking and taking
But still wanting more
More of your life
Your time and your thought
They want people fearful
To be scared and distraught
But not all the folk
Are playing their game
Not everyone folded
And took on the shame
Instead, they held firm
And went with their heart
Seeing a darkness
Creep in from the start
Whatever is coming
It seems we can’t hide
So as it gets closer
We each must decide
Just where it is
That we want this to go
There’s no time to dither
And say you don’t know
~
Because if you don’t decide, they will

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Turns out the oat cookie recipe works with orange, just a bit more flour and oats needed to compensate for the orange juice – i’ll update and post the recipe later in case anyone wants to give them a go. Also decided to get some cherries and make cherry turnovers, as they are a favourite. I haven’t had a cherry turnover since the ‘Nobody likes a mouldy turnover‘ incident with the local bakery.
But it inspired me to start baking more at home, so it turned out to be a good thing.




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That line could apply to so much right now, but I’m going to focus on the cost of living, as that really does appear to be a serious pressing issue that is being forced through. It’s coming to boiling point with the stupid, idiotic and downright childish policies that have been hurried into place. Almost as if they think if they keep chucking stuff at people, they will be so busy scrabbling around to find their feet, they won’t notice. It needs everybody to just stop for a moment. To really think and then act, not react.
It seems, whether this is true or not, that we are meant to have a social contract with the government and councils.
“Council tax is the local tax which helps councils pay for the services they provide“.
Here is one of the taxes we are conditioned that we have to pay, but to me it reads as though they are a business providing a service, and getting reimbursed for it. Why do we then have no say in what the services are, or how they are delivered? Or whether we want to pay for them or not? I’m sure there are many people who would happily pay for their local areas to be maintained, but not by way of the local council first. The amount of wastage at all levels of council and government is shocking, and has been for decades. We all know.
But this last two years has seen catastrophic level of thievery and misappropriation of public funds. To me it is gross misconduct and a breach of the social contract that we have. Making it null and void. But aside from technicalities of law and the fact they write the law to protect themselves and so they can keep their greedy fingers in the pot, there are real people who will face real hardship from their fly by night decisions and laughable ‘leadership’. They care not for the normal everyday folk; they have made that much clear. It’s heart-breaking when you see how much of a pension some people are trying to live on, while at the same time handouts being given left, right and centre to people who have not contributed or worked hard at all sometimes. And in that I mean both people at home and from abroad. We are an island with a limited land mass and resources, being distributed in the most corrupt fashion, it is simply not sustainable or realistic to think it can go on and everything keep going up. Food, taxes, heating, fuel, travel etc. All at a time when we should all have enough, for everyone and to share and help others who may be in need of assistance. Because we see where it goes, we see land and money being hoarded on a level Ebeneezer Scrooge would be proud of. But really, I ask myself why.
Why do they want to make life so hard and terrible for people? Was it not bad enough that we are born into servitude and have to face a life of being herded, directed and dictated to, and pushed to where they want you to be? Now they have to put extra strain on the constantly adapting landscape, because fear and worry have all sorts of consequences, as they, and us, well know. But the extra strain and financial worry they are knowingly heaping on people for what only appears to be profit, is downright cruel. Engineering social issues and benefitting from them for the longest time, yet still managing to blame the people for it. I can only hope that as each day passes and more corruption is exposed, some good and change will come of it.

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I haven’t got in much reading at all over the last couple of years, but I noticed this one on social media with this description from a recent reader –
“If you love a creepy haunted house where the ghosts aren’t half as terrifying or tragic as the living people inside it, this is a must read.”
That sounded just the sort of thing I would actually like to read, so rather than think about it and forget. Ordered it straight away, started reading on the day it arrived and finished by the next day! Good pace and plot, with everything else balancing perfectly in between. A most enjoyable read 🙂

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A bit of bright and colourful nature, for another grey day. Spring is coming, just needs to hurry up…







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