4th September, 2024: El Lay.
It’s officially Wednesday … which frankly …
Means I’ve got the day free, having finished rendering a lot of videos!
I might just have to watch some TV in between everything else!
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As I’ve started writing this … ?
I’ve got the Today programme, Radio Four’s early morning current affairs programme, on in the background.
Do you remember hearing the news about the Grenfell Tower fire, back in 2017?
I certainly do: seeing the images of a burning tower block was one of the most shocking things I think I’d ever seen in my life.
Even now, it’s distressing to see.
What was shocking for me … ?
Was the fact I had a (thankfully) distant connection to it.
I worked for Pinnacle, at the time: the company handled out of hours emergency repair calls for various social landlords, including Kensington and Chelsea Council, the owners of Grenfell Tower*.
I knew the young woman who was on duty, that night: who handled the horde of emergency housing requests that started coming in.
Quite how Hayley coped, I don’t know.
But she ended up with Pinnacle’s equivalent of being mentioned in dispatches.
I can only hope that got her a pay rise, if nothing else.
At any rate, it was a shocking thing to see: this sort of thing is not supposed to happen in a civilised country.
If at all!
The reasons I mention all this … ?
Is relatively simple.
I can only hope that — given the deaths, injuries and trauma the fire caused — lessons can be learned, and future fires prevented.
We could do without another Grenfell.
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