Jubilee by Alfred N.Muggins Part 1

2/6/22

     What does it mean? In the bible it meant the cancellation of debts (rents?), the reapportioning of lands to hold (land reform?), a chance to start again, and to begin with a fresh page (as a writer Alfred knew well that freedom!). Could it be that the prisons would be opened and even the wrongdoers would be given a chance to start afresh? Perhaps the ancient Hebrews had some good ideas? He would of course have to do further research sometime. But you, his readers could do that research too?

     The Roman Catholic Church celebrated Jubilee from time to time (every 25 years?), based on such ideas. Perhaps it was a time of forgiveness and again, being able to start afresh.

     Somehow it had become a state occasion to celebrate the life and reign of the monarch in Britain. He wondered whether anyone would be let out of prison and given a second chance, whether the debt ridden people of London, would be let off their debts by their nice landlords, whether a land reform in favour of the poor but keen worker of the land might be finally on the cards? Would the monarch herself be giving up the rights to her lands in favour of the poor? Would the homeless be given the means for a new start, or even the refugee?

     The Queen’s celebration of 70 years upon the throne was the Platinum Jubilee! (Alfred would have to look up that one on his old chemistry chart (if he could find it?), in the Black Hole of his filing cabinet (into which things went, but never came out again – ever!) He was quite sure there was a wormhole in there somewhere, and that he would one day find them all once again in the next Universe, all miraculously put back into place! (a job he was quite unsuited to doing himself, as he seemed physically and psychologically unable to trawl through the documents of his own past, many of which he was sure might already have been cast aside by his own wife, who was far more driven to tidy them all up, but, in his own opinion, far less capable of reorganizing his own filing system in a sensible way. He was scared of what he now might find, or not find, and he was extremely reluctant these days to even go there!)

     He was a bit jealous. His brief stint as a caretaker King for Henry VIII had given him a slight thirst for power, particularly while he had been on the throne himself. ….

 (to be continued very soon)