Oh it is happening - I am becoming a member of the 'middling folk'. For those of you not sure what this means I take the meaning as that put forward in the middle ages - that is those in the middle comfortable with their life - not peasants but certainly not nobility. I prefer this term to the more pejorative 'middle class' although I have some sympathy with the Marxist analysis. Enough of this sociological analysis - why have I come to this conclusion?
Well it struck me this morning as I sat in the restaurant at Calke Abbey - a National Trust member enjoying the day with other like minded individuals. I am a member of many of the 'middling folk' groups - the afore mentioned National Trust, one of England's finest institutions, RSPB, RHS, & RPS. Perhaps I have lost the drive of youth to be different, although I am different in so many ways, or perhaps it is just that I have reached that time in my life where I enjoy walking through the countryside, enjoying the simple things.
Now we 'middling folks' have our own haunts - one of the best I know is the International Bird Fair in August. Here we turn out and celibate all things middling. (God I have just reread this and I sound a real old fart - perhaps the best definition of 'middling folk' going.) It is amazing what a walk through the countryside can do to your perspective. We middling folk also have real power as we tend to vote in elections and so have a great amount of influence on the political classes - also note that the groups I am a member of are some of the best financed lobby groups going - you mess with the middling folk at your peril.
Simon Marchini LRPS
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