R's rue

They stand like sentries on our front paving. Bins. The blue one is for paper and cardboard. The brown one is for glass, cans and plastic bottles. The charcoal grey bin is for general household waste. The charcoal grey bin is collected by the local council every two weeks. The blue bin is emptied every four weeks and so is the brown bin. A few people in our street have large green bins too. These are for garden waste. You have to pay an annual fee for the green bins and they are emptied six times outside winter months. I don't know how it is in other countries but in England household waste and recycling collections vary from city to city and from region to region. It is very frustrating. There should be commonality driven by government. As well as the three "official" bins we have two more bins at the front of our house. Here they are:- We have been using them for more than a decade now. I bought them myself. You are probably intrigued. What on earth do The Pu...

My hero, and so true   from Going Gently https://ift.tt/2TiMw4l

 It's a day of classical music to soothe  what ails While taking a journey back to The Hapsburgs day talent for days and an appreciation for cultural and artistic mastery from R's rue https://ift.tt/3m6DkN6

 Lord  I’m here At the only Feet That leave Me still Even as  My mind Spins from R's rue https://ift.tt/2Ta2VZ9

 COVID  Thank you  For forcing me To use my imagination  If you don’t use it You lose it Before  You know it Thanks Breeds The good My soul needs from R's rue https://ift.tt/3obGjp4

 The Trelawnyd Street Wardens have been given notice of the impending lockdown by the ever gracious Velvet Voiced Linda . You can just make her out far left on the front row, her fashionable pant leg sidewards at a jaunty angle. Even though, the initiative wasn’t only her idea, VVL made the whole thing work and she did it with diplomacy and a voice like chocolate.  These things seldom work without good leadership and at the original meeting there was many ideas thrown about, several of them not always constructive. But Linda ran with the good ones, commanded warmth and respect and got things done. Not an easy job I can tell you. In any forum  Not everyone in the village gets on.  Of course that’s a given, what with petty jealousies, power struggles and a previous middle aged patriarchy , and to be honest there is at least one person who I know hates my guts with blind testosterone and Mucho gusto! I don’t care, as I know I am a person who speaks his mind,...

The winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature was the American poetess, Louise Glück (b. 1943). In the awarding committee's citation, they said this: "Louise Glück is not only engaged by the errancies and shifting conditions of life, she is also a poet of radical change and rebirth, where the leap forward is made from a deep sense of loss".  The Irish writer and critic Colm Tóibín said of her, "It is difficult to think of another living poet whose voice contains so much electrifying undercurrent, whose rhythms are under such control, but whose work is also so exposed and urgent". Here's a typical example of Louise Glück's work:- 🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂🍂 Autumn by Louise Glück The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action.        * Fall was approaching. But I remember it was always approaching once school ended.                       ...