RAMBLING’S AND RANTING’S - WHERE ARE WE?

 

What a strange world we now inhabit, a world in which people are seemingly incapable of going ten minutes without speaking to someone on their mobile phone and yet have probably gone ten years without speaking to a stranger in the street.

 

A world in which we go everywhere in the car but can’t actually get to where we want to go without a computer telling us where and when to turn.

What a ludicrous situation it is when a person has to use Satellite navigation, bouncing signals off various orbiting satellites, just to travel from Woking to Godalming a distance of eight miles as the crow flies.

 

This failure to navigate our way around this green and pleasant land has been blamed in equal measure on a woman’s inability to read a map and a man’s reluctance to ask for directions but to my mind this problem is all down to road signs.

There are just too many signs there are Blue ones, Green ones, White ones and the Brown ones telling us what places of interest we should visit all of which distract our attention away from the sign that will actually tell you where you want to go.

 

When the Second World War started, and Britain was under imminent threat of invasion many road signs were either removed or painted over in order to confuse German paratroopers.

I am convinced that some of the signposts were put back in the wrong place and a great many were never put back at all and are still stacked in a heap in an old barn in somewhere in Dorset.

Even so we should be able to find our own way from A to B.

 

It’s not just on the land where we have problems either even on the high seas we struggle, but why after all we are a proud island race and all of us are steeped in our great sea faring heritage.

When Britannia was ruler of the waves our gallant seamen circumnavigated the globe using only the Sun and the stars and wrote their own charts as they went.

Now sailors have a global positioning system or GPS too pinpoint their exact position.

Satellites and computers control ships from Super Tankers to small fishing boats.

However even with all this technology they still manage to crash into each other or run aground but when it comes to apportioning blame its always human error