R's rue

 That easy  Breezy Friday  Feeling  That enveloping me With the warmest hug One that I need today To remind me Of all the goodness I see from R's rue https://ift.tt/3kOQ5OT

Tomorrow, after some shopping I will meet up with Nu and a lot of old faces. Today, I’m on my own London was hot this morning, but not as drastically hot, by all accounts as yesterday.  I popped down the Northern line to Waterloo and ambled under the trees on Southbank’s Queen’s Walk, where I drank coffee and watched people for an age.  From there I mooched back into town, had a drink in Soho and perused the bookshops and arty bespoke shops down the side streets of Covent Garden I am now having an early dinner at Dishoom on upper St Martin’s Lane  before I go to the theatre. Dishoom was  a favourite restaurant when I was married.  It was nice to reclaim it again. Going to a restaurant on my own is another milestone for me. Before I’ve always had the cushion of friends to buffer that feeling that I am a singleton. But today, I’ve grabbed the bull by the horns and booked myself a table…FOR ONE !!!  It’s all rather New York…. well that’s what I’m ...

My space mission ended in abject failure. The space in question was the rough land between the A621 and an ancient stone circle or cairn that I had noticed in Ordnance Survey mapping. The first arrow shows where Clint was parked and the second arrow shows my intended destination. The distance was not great - less than one kilometre. However, the map above does not tell you everything. The terrain was difficult and in full summer growth. Beneath my feet were clods of risen vegetation, grasses up to my waist, occasional rocks and swathes of heather with thorny bushes and solitary undernourished silver birches. In wet weather this land would be nigh on impossible to traverse with swampy hollows and other squelchy unknowns to contend with. People simply do not walk here and I know for sure that the ancient site is little known and rarely visited. I had researched its exact location as much as possible, studied aerial imagery and had even written down GPS co-ordinates which, by the way,...