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Splendour

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The Sheffield suburb of Totley - seen from Totley Moor Tomorrow, Friday, I plan to go for another walking expedition in virgin territory just south of Huddersfield. I will take a local train up there. It stops at fifteen mostly small stations on the way - including Berry Brow. Using my senior railcard, the fare is only £8 return (US$10.60). However, as I write this, my e-ticket has still not arrived in my e-mail inbox. I have only got the booking confirmation. Normally the two e-mails arrive in quick succession. Ah well, it's not the end of the world... or is it? Today I went out into the autumn sunshine, leaving Butch in the little car park at the end of Penny Lane just south of Dore. I know that area like the back of my hand and have seen it different seasons, different months, different years. It is amazing that you can find such tranquility in nature on the very edge of this city. I only saw three other walkers and a mountain biker. The walk took little more than an hour. In pl...
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prayer

 On this day May I be  Aware of suffering Yet not make It my own from R's rue https://ift.tt/SJpVo6n
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Eleventh

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How dank and still the air has been these past few days. A few autumn leaves hang on without a whiff of wind to disturb them. It was like that on the morning of November 11th 1918 when George Allison was shot dead by a German sniper at Mons. He was the last British soldier to be killed on the battlefield in The Great War. What was so "great" about it I wonder? All accounts suggest that it was truly awful - not great. As I usually do, I walked up to the simple war memorial next to All Saints Church and stood there in quiet remembrance as the bells chimed eleven times. There were two people from the cafe and about twenty small children from the church playgroup with their leaders. Those children stayed remarkably quiet . I put a beach stone on the plinth. I had written "Thank You" on it with a permanent black marker and a single poppy too. Normally, when I am standing there, my thoughts wander to my Uncle Jack and all the other young men who never came home. What a te...
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Prayer

 God grant  Me the serenity To love  Others I can’t stand Give me Hope  Love  Joy And protection from R's rue https://ift.tt/N40FCIO
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Nails

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  What is it with nails? All over Great Britain, nail bars have sprung up in our towns and cities in the past decade. Along the main road that runs through our neighbourhood then on to the city centre there are now ten nail bars. The newest one has just opened five minutes walk away and it is called "Phoebe Nail". Naturally, I had to take our Phoebe down there at the weekend - not to have her nails done but to get her picture taken outside the new business. The owner - probably from South East Asia  - came out to talk to us.  Naturally, Phoebe kept shtum as small children will frequently do with strangers. The owner seemed very nice, telling me that this was the second shop she had opened. I wished her well with her new venture even though I will not myself be paying for "French tips" (£45) or even an "Eyebrow wax and tint" (£15). What the hell are "French tips" anyway? Are they like "French letters"? Just before Halloween, I processed ...
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Favorite things

 Another round of things about me I love a coffee table book. So much beauty. I could look at it over and over again I love a cute magnet I love a banana nut muffin I try to be creative even if it’s not my strong suit I’m trying to get in the holiday spirit from R's rue https://ift.tt/J0PZAbE
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Branded

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Are you there Washington D.C.? Come in please! This is England calling! Today, at Southwark Crown Court in London, the rapist and sexual predator Russell Brand was put away for ten and a half years having been found guilty of his crimes. It didn't matter that he was a rich media star, famous "comedian" and "writer". It didn't matter that he had settled down in recent years with a  loving wife and their three young children. It didn't matter that he had turned to God or that he wore a crucifix. Past crimes came back to haunt him and the women he had abused earlier this century at long last achieved some kind of justice. There are at least two other cases against Brand still pending. He may yet have more years added to his sentence. I began this blogpost in the way I did because I had Jeffrey Epstein and his associates in mind. Numerous other men - mostly wealthy and powerful - were involved in his predation and not one of them has been suitably punished. ...
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