Changes

[callmemadam]

I walked up the road this morning to post a card. A lot of my friends and relations are celebrating golden wedding anniversaries this year; how did that happen? I went into the shop for cash and found they had eggs, flour and other items it seems the supermarkets can no longer supply. A few new rules but no one wearing a mask; just carefully circling around others.

Our village shop was recently taken over by Chinese people and I think it’s much better now. You get a beaming welcome and the whole place is spotless. They’ve even tidied up the garden and frontage of the cottage which goes with the shop. I confidently predict that within thirty years or less, the majority of doctors and lawyers in this country will be people of Asian origin, who will also dominate the England cricket team. We may even have had our first British Asian Prime Minister, possibly Dishi Rishi, as he is known.

There’s no mystery about this; they are aspirational and work very hard.

Comments

[gwendraith]

I think you might be right. I like Asian people very much. My experience of them is positive; they are extremely polite, helpful and generally have a happy disposition. As you say they have a good work ethic, the entire family muck in. Your village shop sounds a lovely welcoming place, I wonder what led the family to choose a village in deepest England for their business?

[callmemadam]

I would welcome these changes myself.

I know nothing about the family except that they already had a child at a local prep school, so presumably they've been in this area for a while.