Another Brick in the Wall

This is our little part of the Berlin Wall. As you can see from the pound coin, it’s not any great size but we only have it because one of Mrs C’s work colleagues was in Berlin the week the wall came down. Unfortunately, as he was flying with only hand luggage, we all had to settle for just a small piece of history.
Strange to think now that the wall has been down longer than it had been up. Put up hurriedly when I was one year old, it was something I think we were all aware of growing up in the sixties and seventies. As communism began to crumble during the eighties, it’s demise was perhaps inevitable but it was still a momentous moment when those first symbolic pieces were smashed off the top.
Pink Floyd famously sang “we don’t need no education” in the song that gives the title to today’s piece. A bit of a mixed message as the sentiment appears to be that education is not necessary, but the double negative contradicts this (we do NOT need NO education - therefore we do need education). Still, this seems completely in line with current Government thinking. Schools were supposed to go back at the beginning of June. Parents and teachers throw their hands up in horror and say it’s not safe. OK say the government - schools closed until September. Parents and teachers throw their hands up in horror and say we are ruining the children’s education. And in Wales, schools have gone back today for three weeks but their shops are not yet open and you can’t travel more than five miles from home. Very mixed messages indeed and one can only hope things will become more harmonised in September.