listening to the local news.................................

don't know if it's widely known... but lots of Portuguese people working here in Norfolk/Cambs now....getting lots of the usual flak.... 3 of them went into the 40 foot drain in a car and drowned........ they'd been picking vegetables.... others gut chickens......... jobs no bugger else wants..... they just announced one of the dead was a grandmother sending her money home to put her grandson through college..............................................................not ashamed to say I'm crying as I watch and listen to this....................God....... surely we ALL want the best for our own......... she came to a strange land where the yobs call you Porkies...pretend there's a bad smell when you walk by...... and she was a gran sending money home to give him a start in life..... you can imagine what picking veg is like here in February.........and that they got the minimum wage.....and the horror of driving into a freezing Fenland drain.....................................Christ we don't know the half of it...is there a poem there ?? left behind the sun ....strange food ...language....frozen fingers...weather damp and grey.... racist abuse.......... hope so