R's rue

  This beautiful hand painted card is my New Years Message A dear blog reader sent it me a year or so ago,  and it sits next to my favourite paintings in the living room It’s  message resonates to this day. Just take my name out and put in your own  That’s all any of us can do, just keep swimming It’s 6 am and I’m sat at my kitchen table with my bucket of coffee preparing for work Winnie’s rubber Chicken is looking at me And I’m sure he’s smiling  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3rDl4hM

  As another unremarkable year draws to a close, The Laughing Horse Awards Committee have been zooming like dervishes in order to determine who will be the recipients of this year's  coveted  blog awards.  Recognition is important in the world of blogging in order to lubricate the industry's wheels and encourage talent. Blogging has become a worldwide pastime. As I write these words, 2,700,000,000  blogposts have been posted  on the internet this year alone. Blogging is a vehicle for expression, for shared interests and for making connections with other people around the planet. Our blogs are not subject to the normal controls of government, publishers or the forces of law and order. No wonder blogging has become such a popular human activity. Without further ado, let us move on to reveal who has been honoured this year before announcing the overall Blogger of the Year. Winners are entitled and encouraged to copy the widget shown below and paste it...

 Cruising out Of the year Leaving disappointment  Out the  Rear view mirror Saying hello To hope  And expectant Peace 2021 Ready  To meet  You with A smile from R's rue https://ift.tt/3rHiM1d

STOP PRESS... Announcement of  results delayed owing to technical issues. Please bear with us. It is confidently expected that the winners will be revealed later today. from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/2WY9oIr

The lane up to the village , my cottage is at the top The cottage with her bluebirds I got home last night to thick ice and some snow.  The girls were safe at Trendy Carol’s so I picked them up, fed them and we all promptly went to bed. I felt dreadful. But overnight the antibiotics started to do their thing and by morning I didn’t feel too bad. I’m resting today.  I Bought a trashy Asian  disaster movie for this afternoon and I will go to bed early which is my want to do on New Years Eve.  My long awaited turn around on day shifts have come around with a vengeance , I’m working the next two long days and the hospice staffing is pretty low. Hey ho, be careful for what you wish for eh?  Now my blog today, is passed over to you commentators,  It has proved so often to be a good move on my behalf as often the comments are much more interesting than the post itself . Of course it’s about New Years Eve,  More importantly a New Years Eve...