Swine flu in Burwell
It's official: three cases of swine flu have been diagnosed in Burwell and the local primary school has been closed.
I've just walked down to the bank and noticed some children playing on the village green but, as this news article indicates, noticed a lot of the locals looking at them incredulously as though all children in the village should currently be unseen and unheard.
In a curious way it reminded me of the story of Eyam in Derbyshire - near to where my sister and parents now live - when Plague hit the village between 1665-6. One thing we don't share with the Peak District in the Fens are of course the peaks, though some would say outbreaks like this are the very troughs of our existence?
I've just walked down to the bank and noticed some children playing on the village green but, as this news article indicates, noticed a lot of the locals looking at them incredulously as though all children in the village should currently be unseen and unheard.
In a curious way it reminded me of the story of Eyam in Derbyshire - near to where my sister and parents now live - when Plague hit the village between 1665-6. One thing we don't share with the Peak District in the Fens are of course the peaks, though some would say outbreaks like this are the very troughs of our existence?
Labels: Burwell, Cambridgeshire Fens, Derbyshire, Eyam, Fenland, Peak District, plague, swine flu, The Fens
posted by Fencreative | 12:42 PM
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