R's rue

Long time visitors to "Yorkshire Pudding" may recall that last year I drew special attention to our planet's relentless population growth. It was on February 4th of 2020 that I noted the world's population was 7,762,009,632 and increasing day by day. Since then we have all been cowering in the shadow of COVID19. Death stalks us like an escaped beast, waiting to take us in moments of weakness. Surely with what COVID has done, the planet's population must have been in freefall but that is far from the truth. Today, almost fourteen months after my initial blogpost, Earth's population is 7,854, 418, t43 In fourteen months our population has risen by 92 million. Only 2,755,000 have died from coronavirus in that same period of time. 92 million extra earthlings. That's  a much bigger number of people  than the current population of Great Britain, bigger than Germany or Turkey and  more than the Democratic Republic of Congo, bigger than the populations of ...

 With the new bookcase up and running, it’s time to change my bedroom’s colour. This is where I need some help. I am working around two very large Art Deco posters which will dominate the room. It’s taken me an age to pick the ones I want but these are my final choices I need suggestions of wall colour I’m thinking chimney breast one colour the rest of the room the other  I have a vaulted ceiling and a wooden floor of ancient varnished floorboards The lobster needs a contrasting wall colour  Ideas anyone ? from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3rsFadz

Rest In  Progress Not a desire  For unhealthy  Perfection from R's rue https://ift.tt/3riYf1t

Just for Lizzy here is a photo of my shrimp vase.   It’s the biggest vase I own and always has pride of place in the kitchen lane window, where it looks at its best. I always have fresh flowers in this window and in the living room window and have kept the tradition of flowers in the house ever since I bought my first home in 1989. I note here that I’m not the only one that always has flowers in their windows, it’s a tradition Affable Despot Jason’s wife Claire adheres to Which is nice Yesterday I cleaned an old shelving unit and spray painted it. With the addition of some cheap primulas, hyacinth and herbs like sage and parsley it’s brightened up the patio which still needs it’s cottage walls painting.  I need some consistently dryer weather to do that . The choir met last night on zoom. It was a year to the day since we had our first on line meeting and our conductor Jamie and his 1940s moustache ( but with non regulation overlong hair) has kept us going more...