Love from, Florence Grace

Sorry today's blog post is so late ! I've had such a busy day and haven't had time to properly write something up, so thought I'd just give you a little chit chatty blog tonight!  This evening, I met up with my good friend Ross . I went to primary school with Ross, lived next door to him for a little bit and we used to regularly go to see films at the cinema together. When he went to uni in September, we stopped seeing each other as much, so when we saw each other today we had plenty to catch up on! Whilst talking about our time at primary school, about who we did and didn't speak too, we realised it had been ten years since we had seen any of these people, which was such a scary thought! This, however, lead on to another, even scarier thought... Ross and I have been friends for a whopping fifteen years !!! That's three quarters of our lives! I couldn't believe it, I have genuinely not been friends with anyone else for as long as that. Aside...

My parent's raised me to be a very polite child, as they did with both of my sisters too. We always say please and thank you, we walk single file on the paths and step off of curbs to let people pass, we hold open doors and we wait patiently in queues. But all of this is just common sense isn't it? Well, you would like to think so, wouldn't you. However, over the last few years I have noticed a dramatic increase in the lack  of manners that people seem to possess. All too frequently I find myself holding open a door without a simple 'thanks', or moving out of someone's way only to have a stream of 7,582 people storm past me whilst I stand patiently waiting for the moment that I can continue on with my own journey. To be frank, I'm quite fed up of it now. Can it be that so many other people in the world were not raised so well by their parents, and were not taught these basic, simple manners? Or is it that they have simply been lost along the way? Whate...