An acquaintance/friend contacted me about her dd. She was ill and had to stay overnight at A&E. She was very ill. High temperature, vomiting etc. She phoned me to make sure my ds is OK, which he is.
She said the doctor thought it could be gastric 'flu but wasn't sure.
I've had concerns about her place. We both live on smallholdings and have animals. However, how we keep the animals differ. Our family do not allow any animals in the house (other than fish in the bowl). Even the dogs stay outside. We have a buffer zone between the farm bit and the house. The buffer zone includes the vehicles we drive off farm and the garden. The vehicles that are used on the smallholding are kept in the farm yard bit. The vehicles which we drive onto the main roads, we strictly keep off the farm bit.
My friend on the other hand doesn't. Pigs roam in and out of the house, as do all the other animals. Nothing is separated. So for example, when I come down to visit her, my off-farm vehicle ends up covered in pig shit as we drive into her yard. We then have to walk through pig shit to get to the front door and then we are expected to keep our shoes on throughout the house. If we lived in the Mediterranean, in a warm dry climate, it wouldn't be so bad. But we don't. We both live in the north of England which is currently very wet. It hasn't stop raining for days.
This friend/acquaintance has a wealthy and powerful father (allegedly freemason) and although doesn't live locally, I'm afraid to say anything to her in case she turns against me. I don't want trouble with freemasons if her father is one.
On the other hand, her living arrangements are only just on the good side of unacceptable and now that her dd is in hospital, I'm tempted to say something.
What would you do? Shut up and or say something? If I say something, how can I word it so she doesn't take offence?