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 I was sitting down half watching Only Connect with a large gin and tonic tonight, when I found myself  Trolling through boxes in my bookcase in order to find Bluebell’s MOT which I know I tucked away somewhere without thinking Surprisingly , I found my ex father in law’s passport of all things …. bugger knows why it was here It caught me totally by surprise  Like things often do in life And I cried long and hard  when when I saw it.  Long and hard Fucking why?  Heyho from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3D66N22

Yesterday, Shirley and I were on babysitting duty. Our precious charge was the beloved granddaughter, Princess Phoebe. Her mother and father were attending the wedding of two friends they have known for more than twenty years. Because of COVID, this wedding had been postponed three times. It was first meant to happen at Easter 2020 in Seville, Spain - a place much beloved by the bride and groom. They kept trying to reschedule the wedding as flights and hotels were booked and then cancelled. What was supposed to be a joyous event when first conceived turned into something of a painful saga. In the end, the couple were married here in Sheffield. The ceremony took place in the old Abbeydale Picture House before coaches took the guests to Kelham Island  and a wedding feast with dancing in a repurposed industrial building called The Mowbray. At last Kira and Andy were married and the angst of the past two years could be relegated to memory. I guess that many weddings have been disru...