R's rue

Last Saturday Hull City beat Fleetwood in the F.A. Cup. Here players congratulate  Reece Burke after scoring his very first goal for The Tigers. Not lockdown but scrumdown! England is in Lockdown Mark 2 for the next month. Pubs and restaurants are closed and so are hairdressers. We are told that we can only meet up with one other person from another household but not indoors or even in our gardens. We have to meet them outside in public places, keeping two metres apart. We are advised over and over to wash our filthy hands and to wear masks to smother our viral breathing. Okay, if this will help I am happy to "get with the program" as our North American cousins are wont to say. Anything to reduce risk and frankly to stave off the possibility of a premature death. It's awful that we cannot keep visiting our beloved daughter who is now heavily pregnant and working from home. But rules are rules. Now here's the rub. While Lockdown Mark 2 proceeds, live football co...

 Facebook has an irritating habit of reminding you of something you have experienced years ago Today it poked me about a rather special walk I did in Manhattan three years ago to the day. The High Line runs from the trendy meatpacking district around 14th St , through Chelsea to the West Side on 34th street. It runs for going on two miles and follows the elevated train track of The New York Central Railway.  The elevated railway is planted out simply with low maintenance grasses and flowers and trees and has wonderful views of the Hudson River to the West ( when you are walking North) and the city scapes aka Rear Window to the East. It was a warm November Sunday when I walked the High Line, with high blue skies and silvery deco skyscrapers bordering my view like a theatre set Tourists ambled alongside New Yorkers in magical nodding good nature  And I remember thinking as the sun reflected in silver fish ripples on the Hudson that life couldn’t be any better th...

 i miss my grandmother regaling me With stories of her time in Odessa and Havana In her tales I took a trip to exotic places or so it seemed her story is my history and I'm proud my lineage the one  I laid  no claim to is the one I'm desperately trying to recapture from R's rue https://ift.tt/3eKn69S

 Dios Calmate mi alma Necesito descansar Cuando era nina Mi abuelita me daba una galletica y el televisor estaba mi compañero Don Francisco y después continuaron Con las telenovelas En su honor Voy a mirar  Univision hoy Mi español  no es tan bueno pero voy a escribir mas En mi primera lengua Si quieres corrector me haslo por favor from R's rue https://ift.tt/2IlCw8E

 Good sleep hot chocolate great music Starting my day in gratitude Lord, Guide your dominion With truth Followers of Christ I've spoken with nonbelievers Or disaffected Christians We better start acting right Our witness is whittling away With each day that goes by from R's rue https://ift.tt/3lj7fBx

  The new landlady of the village pub is in fact a former landlady called Ceri The young woman with a young family who, with her husband Nathan has braved the covid economic decline is in my mind one of the real heroes of this dreadful year. The Crown reopened last night. It was a very different pub to what Affable Despot Jason and I remembered. Table service only, on line booking , no standing at the bar But every table , throughout the pub and restaurant  was filled by villagers happy to have the pub lit and warm and alive again. Ian and Jo ( without their three legged whippet) Tim, Tim ( Nice and not dim) Trelawnyd Val, Village Leader Ian,  It was nice to be there to support the opening night Booking for tables can be done here on line via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Crown-Inn-Trelawnyd-110592510858062 I will leave you with this video which is doing the rounds A former New York Ballerina, suffering from Alzheimers is played Swan Lake  Enjo...