R's rue

 I got off shift early yesterday and took some time owing  I rang the vets before I left work and organised they leave me some medicated shampoo for Mary . The weather has been extraordinary wet of late and I drove up through unfamiliar roads to the country practice and hit a flooded piece of road along a deserted stretch . Bluebell aquaplaned on the slick road and veered across the road with her backside into oncoming traffic and we slid for what seeming like an age before sliding the other way and eventually stopping on the drivers’ side verge with a loud bump. I checked for damage and could only find a few strands of grass sandwiched into the bumper  I was still shaking by the time I got home twenty five minutes later and I’d only just walked into the cottage when there was a knock at the door It was my neighbour Mandy with cake wrapped in silver foil . “Thought you could use some”  She said  And I said I really could  I ate the cake with ...

This kind of warmed and broke my heart all together    from Going Gently https://ift.tt/36mJymz

 On the back of my last post is this clip. It is quiet, and intense scene where a Sikh waiter ( Dev Patel) offers to take off his beloved turban to quieten the fears of a British guest frightened by his “ ethnic “ look during the terrorist siege  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3cpuYhL

 Writing  By moonlight Creation abounds When mystery Becomes your reality from R's rue https://ift.tt/2MhSt1M

How The English hold a tea cup Having described Americans in vivid detail, it is only fair that I should summarise The English. I am not talking about the English language but the English people. Of course Yorkshire people do not consider themselves to be fully English. We are first and foremost of Yorkshire and we trace our heritage back to Viking invaders and to the ancient kingdom of Northumbria. No my friends, the true English live south of here in faraway counties with strange names - Surrey, Hampshire, Kent, Bedfordshire, Essex and the like. And of course that is where London is situated - the great metropolis of The English. The English all talk as if their mouths are filled with marbles. Their vowel sounds are very similar. Favourite utterances of The English  are "Gosh!", "Golly!" and "Oh, I say!" The English send their sons to boarding schools when they are still in nappies (American: diapers) where the play rugger and cricket, learn Latin,...