musings...

It's amazing how quickly I get a bit fed up with working on Saturdays. Not having two days off in a row makes the working week a lot harder, and I always get towards June and berate myself for not having taken advantage of my Winter work schedule when I had it.
Today is a busy one, as well, due to the joys of half-term. We're back at full capacity again and the site is ringing with the sounds of childish laughter and excited screams. That's okay, but the lack of parenting displayed by a lot of our visitors does start to grate on me a little bit, especially when I'm the one responsible for health and safety issues. When did it become okay for under-10s to just run around any open space unsupervised? Including indoor spaces like restaurants and amusement arcades? I know, as well as anyone, that little ones can be very energetic and I'm not saying we should tie them to a chair and keep them static like they're in a Victorian family photo, but didn't we used to teach our children to respect those around them, rather than treating anyone nearby as an inconvenient obstacle in their personal playground? I'm not saying we should go back to the days when kids would be whacked for the slightest indiscretion, but there's nothing wrong with a slightly raised voice remonstrating with a child in an effort to keep them and others safe, surely? If someone is letting their 6-year-old sprint at high speed with their head down and they hurt themselves by running straight into a bollard I don't see why the fault should lay 100% with our company. But I do fear that it does, and that fear is bubbling away at me constantly as I watch badly-behaved young 'uns do all manner of unacceptable things without a hint of a watchful eye from a parent.

By now, I imagine you're thinking, "Did you really restart blogging just so you could be moany? Maybe we were better off with the silences..."

RC 24-5-25