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I’m shallow enough to enjoy receiving birthday cards, and didn’t sleep properly until 2pm when I remembered that the lane had been closed to traffic ( including the postman) all day because of remedial road works. Thank you all for your good wishes  I was on catch up all yesterday after that and was late to pop in to my sister’s to wish her a happy birthday. The view from your window  seems to be gathering a pace somewhat with some delightful photographs of faraway places.  Keep your entries coming ...to jgsheffield@hotmail.com from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3yWeAOz

Another little step towards normality I received this video just as I got to work tonight I missed choir practice  It moved me greatly    from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3i5R385

Following a passing remark that someone made about me last week on another blog, I was going to write about pigeonholing people. In fact I had begun to write the blogpost when somewhere - in the back of my mind - a vague memory stirred. Hadn't I blogged about pigeonholing before? Using the blog search facility in the top left hand corner of "Yorkshire Pudding", I soon discovered that I had written quite effectively about this human tendency back in July 2015. Why re-invent the wheel?  For once, I have decided to re-blog. So here's that original "Pigeonholing" blogpost - verbatim:- _____________________________________________________________ " What do you do?" This is a question that often surfaces soon after being introduced to new people - at parties and other social events. But for years it is a question that I have deliberately refrained from asking. I am of the opinion that knowing what somebody does for a living is not of prime impor...