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  The Welsh lockdown starts at midnight Lucky I’ve already done a big shop this week. I made a small turkey lasagne for supper tonight, and as I was doing so I found several left over cocktail sausages hidden away on the fridge shelf.  I gave the dogs the sausages with their tea and kept one aside I know I’m a bit of a show girl but I thought it apt that I planted it with Winnie’s ashes that had already been scattered on the flower beds She would have loved that final gesture  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3h3n2TF

MacArthur Park, Los Angeles Back in 2011, "Rolling Stone" published a list of "the worst songs of the 1960's" based upon a readers' poll. I am old enough to remember every one of those songs from when they first emerged onto the airwaves. They are, as they say, part of the soundtrack of my life. Okay, I will agree with "Rolling Stone" readers about "Sugar Sugar" by The Archies and "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express but there are songs on that list that I remember with affection. Amongst them are "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher, "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro and "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" by Tiny Tim who was a friend to Bob Dylan when he first arrived as an unknown in New York City in 1961. However, the "worst song" I want to single out came in at number  three on the "Rolling Stone" list. It's "MacArthur Park" by Jimmy Webb as recorded by Richard Harris in 196...

Almost finished nights, just waiting for day staff to stagger on duty, all blearily eyed. I am now off for three whole days! I have just been sharing with my colleagues how Eba,  my old cleaning lady in Sheffield , used to mutter “ dirty boys......dirty boys” under her breath when she was scrubbing our bathroom  ( I have no idea where that nugget of memory came from, but I have to accept it was just a product of over tiredness)  It got everyone laughing anyhow. The village is collecting homemade Christmas decorations in order to decorate the village green on Wednesday. I will join in before Next week’s night shifts. Animal helper Pat dropped off a Bara Brith covered in silver foil yesterday, and Rosemary and German Bernard from the far side of the village did the same with bottles of jam and chutney. I’m having a walk later this morning with friends including Chic Eleanor.  We’ve planned a proper coffee on Colwyn Bay Beach. Eleanor predicted the ...