The season is a time for
memory. We watched the old
Ealing comedy, Whisky
Galore! which held up remarkably well if you did not mind the
stereotypes. It was relaxing with some
real, as opposed to forced, laughs.
One character, not
mentioned in the link was the local doctor, played by James Robertson Justice a
Scottish authority figure with a commanding presence. Not only did it seem strange for a small
island to have its own doctor it was clear that this was a different world.
In his visits to those
quite ill he was happy to recommend the smoking of pipe tobacco and the
drinking of a few shots of whisky. Given
that this was before antibiotics came into general use it was a lot more
sensible than you might assume.
Despite what those times
were like there were moments when it seemed to be a better world to live in.
Have a nice day.
"Despite what those times were like there were moments when it seemed to be a better world to live in."
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean. If only we'd managed to keep the best bits of that world and avoid the worst bits of this. Oh well.
Merry Christmas.
A very long time ago I worked for quite a number of registered blind and partially sighted, mainly elderly people. After a year I realised that many, who had other disabilities too, had just the one thing in common - they drank a very small amount of whisky (they sometimes called it 'hows your father' which puzzled me initially) at some time - not always evening, but once every day. All were quite mobile, many were in their eighties, some over 90, many smoked a little still - but all were so much better in every way than those who did not do this
ReplyDeleteI have copied them ever since with small quanitities of a huge range of single malts.