R's rue

  Five days to go And I’ve morphed into a cross between Bridget Jones and a sweaty wombat  A wombat with a five day old T shirt on. It’s not a pretty sight. I FaceTimed a friend yesterday who asked me when I had eaten avocados That was 2 days previously. If I put the t shirt in hot water, I’d make soup!  It’s time to get a grip I need a bath, a shave and a change of clothes  I did wash the pots this morning, only because I had run out of spoons But the only person I’ve seen today is the postman  He’s the cheerful one that either calls  me “ Bud “ or “ John” depending on his mood Today he asked me if I was ill “ Track and Trace “ I told him in way of explanation He looked at my odd socks, grey tracksuit bottoms ( the ones with the paint stains) and nodded Sympathetically  “ I ve seen a few of you the last few weeks” he said “ Some people never get out of their pyjamas “ I’m didn’t tell him I don’t own pyjamas I had a pot nood...

  Five days to go And I’ve morphed into a cross between Bridget Jones and a sloth  A sloth with a five day old T shirt on. It’s not a pretty sight. I FaceTimed a friend yesterday who asked me when I had eaten avocados That was 2 days previously. If I put the t shirt in hot water, I’d make soup!  It’s time to get a grip I need a bath, a shave and a change of clothes  I did wash the pots this morning, only because I had run out of spoons But the only person I’ve seen today is the postman  He’s the cheerful one that either calls  me “ Bud “ or “ John” depending on his mood Today he asked me if I was ill “ Track and Trace “ I told him in way of explanation He looked at my odd socks, grey tracksuit bottoms ( the ones with the paint stains) and nodded Sympathetically  “ I ve seen a few of you the last few weeks” he said “ Some people never get out of their pyjamas “ I’m didn’t tell him I don’t own pyjamas I had a pot noodle for break...

Thirty four years. That was the time gap between the publication of  Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" and its sequel "The Testaments". Between the contents of the two novels there is another time gap. Fifteen years. And as we are thinking about time gaps - the space between me finishing "The Handmaid's Tale" and starting to read "The Testaments" was just one week. "The Testaments", like the earlier novel, is set in the strange patriarchal nation state of Gilead. Women serve different functions. Some are Aunts, some are Marthas, some are Wives and selected younger women are Handmaids - designated for procreation. Gilead draws its structural guidance from "The Bible" but  interpretations are puritanical and lacking in basic  humanity.  It is never clear how big Gilead is nor how many people live there. It is located somewhere in New England and relations with nearby Canada are strained. It is extremely dif...

 Cuddles  With the pup A blanket Mozart And my favorite sweet treat from R's rue https://ift.tt/3oD1UqO