R's rue

  It’s been stormy overnight I’ve slept badly  Two long days at work now Bucket of coffee this morning  The lane feels cold from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3bcFuHH

  1st August, 1974. Lentran near Inverness What a horrible job I have let myself in for. This morning I earned just £1.20 working from 8.30 to 2.30. As I told the man at the employment exchange - "It is slave labour". And Jesus - I was not slacking as I picked 'em. I have begun reading "The Grapes of Wrath"by John Steinbeck. It is very readable - the slow slow life of Oklahoma in mid-century with its prejudices and its changing agricultural methods and its dust storms is well captured. It is an American novel through and through though it is interesting to discover that Steinbeck's mother was Irish. Inverness with 46 days of the holiday left. I've covered around 1,500 miles since this holiday began in May. What is to become of me? The pain of just living - not a sharp, thrusting,ripping, bloody, cataclysmic pain but a dull, drawn, out, quiet pain. Last night I looked into the milky face of a girl from a village near York - a beautiful, delicate, myst...

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 I often write about nice things but don’t let that fool you. I’m not always a nice person . I’ve had a mixed day all told.  Dog walk. Flu jab A Meeting about the Church All positive affairs to be sure Then my arranged meet with a friend for a supportive chat was cancelled and so on the spur of the moment I booked a ticket to see The Last Duel ( the film raved about by Rachel on her blog)  It’s a 52 Mile round trip to the cinema and I arrived in good time, buying a coffee for myself and I seated myself into my allotted seat the dark cinema to wait. We waited, and waited and waited and eventually the manager came out to say the film was “ rebooting ” and that it wouldn’t be long  Over half an hour later we were still waiting and in one of his brief visits the manager told us the cinema had experienced several similar problems since they had reopened.  Finally he told us that the film was cancelled and he was sorry and after handing out complementa...