R's rue

Great

Let me

Say this

Lord

Heal your people

So much

Hurt

Anger

And indifference

Guard my heart

The company

Kept

Essential to joy

I’m not happy

Every day

But finding

Gratitude

Is akin to

Drawing breath

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Quiztime

Today's quiz questions are all about fruit and to help you out multiple choice answers have been provided. As usual, solutions will be given in the comments section.

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1) What is this? (a) unicorn fruit (b) sphinx fruit
(c) dragon fruit (d) griffin fruit

2) What is this? (a) angry fruit (b) passion fruit (c) fear fruit (d) love fruit

3) What is this? (a) tai chi (b) coochee (c) ho chi (d) lychee

4) What is this? (a) durian (b) plantain (c) pineapple (d) melon

5) What are these berries? (a) raspberries (b) loganberries

6) What variety of banana is the one most widely eaten around the world?

(a) Barangan (b) Cavendish (c) Manzano (d) Goldfinger

7) What variety of apples are these?

(a) Golden Delicious (b) Cripps (c) Jonathan (d) Braeburn

8) What does pomegranate literally mean?

(a) sweet little eyeballs (b) orb with jewels inside

9) Which of these is NOT a variety of melon

(a) Christmas (b) Cantaloupe (c) Charentais (d) Clandestine

10) What type of large fruit is this woman holding?

(a) spongefruit (b) jackfruit (c) jillfruit (d) balloonfruit

That's all folks! How did you do?

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love

Sending a hug

As many

As I can

So many

Hurt people

Hurting each other

Out of fear

Of what

Isn’t known

Love yourself and one another

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Snow was promised and so it came to pass. No late visit to the supermarket last night because that snow was falling steadily from 7pm onwards. Why risk skidding around and potentially having a costly accident when you don't absolutely have to go out?

And so this was the view from our kitchen window when I arose this morning - three or four inches of the white stuff. Not cocaine.

With my quiz pals, I was meant to go to Buxton today for a slap up lunch and drinks all covered by our quiz winnings but we postponed yesterday when we saw the weather forecast. Buxton in The High Peak is the highest market town in England and they really know about winter weather up there. It is twenty eight miles west of Sheffield but in a different climate zone. Talk about global warming up there and they'll laugh at you.

Yesterday, I needed a walk but I didn't wish to drive so I put my boots on, crossed the main road and walked the length of Bannerdale Road - right down to the bottom. Then I took a path up through the allotments that nestle below the woods on Brincliffe Edge. It's a steep climb up to Brincliffe Edge Road so a bench near the top was very welcome.

Then a woman with two dogs came along and said, "I know you don't I?"

At first I didn't recognise her and my first inner thought was, "Oh-oh. Did I do something wrong?" but I needn't have worried.

It was the Irish lady - Fidelma - who gave me three car loads of free walling stone in the summer. See here. I did not recognise her at first because her hair was different and she was wearing new glasses. But soon we were rapping away with each other again.

I find that that is how it can be with some people. You fall into easy conversation and could carry on interminably. We just seemed to be on the same wavelength - there under the trees, with the ground carpeted in bronze, russet and yellow autumn leaves and her two dogs sniffing hither and thither - not their names!

On Netflix I just watched a recent documentary film from Colombia called "The Lost Children" which is nothing to do with "The Lost Schoolgirl". A light plane came down in dense jungle and all three adults on board were killed but four children survived - the youngest aged only eleven months.

They wandered away from the crash site and afterwards the Colombian military along with an indigenous search party struggled to locate them. But forty days after the crash, the children were all found alive! Joy upon joy!

The style of the documentary was unfamiliar which made it all the more engaging. And it was nice to watch something that was so hopeful.

Below, a random photo of allotment No. 19 under Brincliffe Edge. There are around sixty allotments on the sloping ground that can all be rented from Sheffield City Council. Here citizens can grow vegetables and fruit. A few even keep chickens which is a popular pastime with urban foxes. Allotment No. 19 suggests that the tenant may be lacking in enthusiasm though clearly all is not lost.

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Stoke

Lord

Lead me

In your ways

And remind

Me that

I’m not in charge

Of fixing

The problem

I’m just not

To stoke it in

My attempt

For attention

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Place

Cold and rainy

Warm drink

And fuzzy slippers

Worship songs

On repeat

As focus

Is directed

In its

Rightful place.

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Help

Help! Now available in novel form, my story, "The Lost Schoolgirl" has become a runaway success - so much so that the publishers are planning to launch a second edition. Trouble is they are demanding a different cover design for the book. I have only been given two choices - above or below. Which would you pick and why?

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I have exactly the same dilemma in relation to the film version of "The Lost Schoolgirl". You may remember that I sold the rights to a Hollywood-based film production company called Scamalot. They have asked me to pick a cinema poster style that could influence the overall mood of the film (American: movie). Which would you pick and why? Above or below?

P.S. These A.I. images were in truth made rapidly using Microsoft Bing Image Creator

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