R's rue

  I was a little disappointed by the pond meeting. It was wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Let me explain… The village pond used to be a bit of tipping ground and thirty years ago or so the Community Council suggested a renovation . They did a cracking job, utilising local farmers to bash the pond into shape. They planted trees around the new pond and eventually a lovely oak fence and gate surrounded the area.  It must have looked wonderful  However over the years,  the oak fencing provided an effective barrier to locals to use and visit the pond and eventually it has more or silted up and has been totally overgrown .  In my sixteen years here, I have never seen it visited . Now members of the new Community Association   have taken an interest in rebooting the pond as a conservation project, and so a proposed plan was drawn up, the AONB dept consulted and a grant obtained to support the project. Yesterday was planned as a relaxed meeting w...

 What is it You seek  Of me Is it  Complete surrender Surrender everything I’ve ever wanted For striving Has caused  More strife You never Said anything Worth doing Would be easy Give my heart The desire  To keep going from R's rue https://ift.tt/37QHrI0

Frances is our daughter. Using her smartphone she has taken some wonderful pictures of our baby granddaughter, Phoebe. To be honest, her pictures put my own efforts to shame. Perhaps I should invest in a smartphone myself - just for the camera. Hopefully, I could disable all the other features. It's just the camera I want. Phoebe was seven months old on Sunday and to celebrate this on her Instagram page, Frances published a bunch of pictures of the precious babe. I have picked just three of those photos to share with you. Can you see her teeth in the image below? She now has two of them. Teeth can be pretty useful when you're learning to eat. And when you are a messy  eater it's good to be naked. You can always have a bath afterwards. The picture below was taken in our dining room on Sunday afternoon. Phoebe was not supposed to be eating the card that marks her first seven months. It was supposed to be propped up next to her as in previous months. Little rascal! ...