A Thought
What day is it? Who knows This video really pleased me It really pleased me Why do you think that is so? Answers on a postcard from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3gSMknH
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A Pig In A Condom
I got up and walked the dogs at 8am. It was grey and humourless outside so we went back to bed until 1 am Then I walked the dogs for their long walk and fed them and we returned to bed again I didn’t say it was going to be an interesting post. I was just dozing off when my work what’s app group pinged . Apparently the Welsh Government has given a 500£ One off Thank You payment to care home workers for their battle against covid but workers in hospices were exempt from this gesture of goodwill The hospice management team thought this unfair and today matched that thank you for all front line staff A nice and timely thought If anyone reading this think that this payment is not deserved they could have seen an overly sweaty me being pulled out of a plastic PPE overall by two support workers after a twelve hour shift I looked like a melting pig in a condom from Going Gently https://ift.tt/37mtC4G
Twelve
Road junction west of Blyton Twelve miles. That's how far I walked yesterday, east of The River Trent in Lincolnshire. I left Clint in the car park of the village hall in Blyton - which is undoubtedly the origin of the surname Blyton as in Enid Blyton - one of Britain's best known children's writers. It was a beautiful day as I set off - hardly a cloud in the sky - and for mid-December the temperature was pretty mild. No need for the big coat, gloves or a woolly hat. I was heading north west for the tiny riverside village of Wildsworth. Across from Wildsworth is another small village called Gunthorpe which is where my wife was born and spent the first sixteen years of her life. Her father, Charlie, was an arable farmer there and was also born in Gunthorpe. Sadly now there are no living family connections to the place - just memories. View of the Andersons' house in Gunthorpe - Holme Farm Three and a half miles by the river down to East Stockwith. There I sa...