I visited Waterstones yesterday. Nothing new. Oftentimes its filled with overseas students who take the chairs and tables to sit there all morning to do their studies...meaning less space for us ordinary folk. Today however,I went in to be confronted with 12 ME gentlemen all being taught English by one(or was it two)Spanish Italian tutors. The men were all under 28 I would guess,and all very reasonably dressed. They appeared to be Afghani(or around that area). The lesson overtook my reading abilities and stressed my intolerance of having some space...and quiet. I have accepted theseadays that libraries are playgrounds and jobseekers workplaces alongside those seeking social support,housing queries...but it did seem a bit much to have open teaching sessions for refugees(?)in Waterstones café.
Still,mustn't grumble for fear of being admonished by outriders of thought policing.
As is my error I let my mind muse and wondered how it was that outside I saw the local indigenous homeless lying in doorways. Yet these young foreign men were being tutored gratis in well dressed clothing. Of course,this was speculative thought and with its observation,I guess,racist and xenophobic. I still cant hep but wonder where we gonna put everybody that's coming here. Place seems to be getting ever more overcrowded. Build more rat accommodation and roads I suppose. I cant says I like it but have often been admonished by others who say theres plenty left space in England to build lottsa stuff: roads,more rail,tiny houses,warehouses,industrial estates...you get the picture