R's rue

  Above - the view through our kitchen door at midday yesterday. A glum December day with flurries of rain and sleet and gobs of snow as large as oak leaves. Not a day for walking. A day for hunkering down as we edge ever closer to the winter solstice. Shirley has been in cleaning and clearing out mode. This is a hangover from our recent decorating project  - making over our dining room. We are trying to reduce the amount of clutter that surrounds us even though every item has some meaning for us. One of the things we have cast out is this picture of a cat that came with us in 1989 when we moved from our first house in the Crookes area of the city. We bought the cat picture because it reminded us of Blizzard - our first cat who was also black and white. The picture faded over time and now it has gone but at least I snapped this photo of it before it was assigned to the wheelie bin.:- It can be so hard to let go of things. I am of the opinion that is natural for human bein...

  The last three on the much slated I’m a celebrity  Are just sweetly nice people  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3lPuqTK

 Walking in the woods The earth beneath My feet Silent  Filled  With peace And contentment For as I move Stillness is at hand from R's rue https://ift.tt/3mIY1PU

 Wales in back in a sort of lockdown until Christmas. Last night I went to The Crown for a pint with Gorgeous Dave   and again it was nice to see much of the village there filling the tables for a last time.  The new landlady was sanguine,  Everyone will drive over the border for a drink she said. I’m not surprised, then the non essential shops were closed in England, the English did the same with us and shopped here..... Yesterday I caught up with jobs, Mary had a vet Check up in the surgery car park and I was sure to point Winnie out to the junior vet as she sat smiling in Bluebell’s  passenger seat eating the remains of a sausage and egg McMuffin  He smiled genuinely enough. I posted my traditional Christmas decorations to friends in Australia and Derbyshire and posted my Christmas Cards before dropping off a team gift to a nurse who has just left the hospice through fears of catching covid. Today I’m off to the cinema  It’s cold today ...