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 If you have the chance watch the tv series Unorthodox  It’s the story of Esty, a nineteen year old ultra Orthodox Jew living in Brooklyn and her struggle with coping with her secular life. This moment stands out as one of the most powerful I have ever seen on film as Esty, ( Shira Haas) auditions for a place in a German Conservatory which is her final ticket to a more mainstream and happy life. The power and desperation  in this performance , which incidentally is a traditional Jewish wedding song ( Mi Bon Siach which means  The Love Of A Bride) is amazing  I watched this final episode yesterday afternoon, as I lay in bed. It was a piece of film making so powerful I had to get up and walk it’s effects away. I’m not moaning here, life alone is what it is, but I so needed to talk about the scene and how it made me feel inside and I couldn’t !  So had to walk away my thoughts around the village , which was cold and wet , yet filled with cheerfuln...

When she was a girl in Rawmarsh in The West Riding of Yorkshire, Mum loved to dance. Why should we remember the dead as they were just before they died? Picture taken around 1930. Old e-mails now give evidence of  times past just as documents in dusty files use to do. Looking back through my hotmail library I stumbled across a message I wrote to my late brother Paul on September 2nd 2007. I did not even remember writing it. Our mother died just eleven days after I wrote that e-mail more than thirteen years ago now and Paul himself was to die less than three years later.  Though no longer alive, they are still with me. Do loved ones  ever truly die? We hold them in our hearts long after they have left us. I am glad that I didn't delete the e-mail years ago. It brought memories of that sad time rushing back. Here's what I wrote:- ___________________________________ We all went over to see mum in Beverley today - me, Shirley, Ian and Frances. We had Sunday lunch in ...

 You forget just how good Julie Andrews is This is a somewhat cheesy Christmas version  But listen it it with your eyes shut Sublime  Off to work in a bit  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3nfoWD9