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 Off to work today It’s very dark and cold I have the snuffles  The first cold in 2 years There’s a lot to be said for masks from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3FyqaSS

Above - that's our Phoebe. She was ten months old this week as the card announces. This time she wasn't chewing it! She remains the loveliest baby you could imagine. She's starting to crawl and can pull herself up to a standing position if there's something to lean on. When we say "Good girl Phoebe!" she claps her hands with glee.  It wasn't planned but for a few months now I have been speaking for Phoebe a sher advocate. After all, she is currently unable to speak English herself. I freely admit that I have been the ventriloquist and she has been the ventriloquist's dummy. Let me give you a couple of examples. Mummy has just been to the toilet while Grandpa cradles her. Mummy returns. Phoebe says: "Where have you been Mummy? Why did you leave me here with this smelly old man? He has been singing nursery rhymes to me again and I'm sick of them!" At the dinner table: "How come you get to have that nice stir fry and I get ...

  I don’t know exactly what Gorgeous Dave and I were expecting from Nigella Lawson but her one woman let us both down.  No doubt he was hoping for a pussy galore-esque Nigella  in a  tight fitting black polo neck ,playfully fingering an irritating gravy stain on her bosom with a red nailed index finger. I was hoping for a playfully funny story teller. We both were a little disappointed  She kept everything , verbose, food orientated and meandering  Lacking the obvious tight direction she has on tv and the close seductive relationship with the cameraman  Dave and I had a nice chat but that was on the way home  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3qRFF3R

 This post will be done in installments. 4-13-03. Feels like a lifetime ago. The journey to Christ officially began. I never would have predicted how much my life has changed because I made a choice to be free.   What’s changed since. My mindset. I still have days where I question why. More than I want to admit. These days, I stay because of who He is, not who I am. I’m still learning I can’t judge the character of Christ because of those who profess Him. I’ve had to read the Bible for myself, and trust. I ask as I tell this story, be gentle. I’ve thought of keeping it private, but if it brings Glory to Him, I will do it. My journey to Christ was never in doubt to Him, it was to me. I never thought I’d get tired of fighting my flesh. I still fight it every day. I’m fighting it right now. Shedding the pride is very hard. I’m trying to tell the story perfectly, and that may be the hindrance I’m facing right now. I’m finding that the path to Him isn’t narrow and straight. It has ...

In an idle moment last week I set myself a challenge. Could I think of ten famous people dead or alive who hailed from certain different countries? Great Britain was of course no problem at all, nor was the USA.. Canada was slightly harder and so was Australia but I came up with ten for each in the end. The Republic of Ireland was fairly easy - perhaps easier than France:- Charles de Gaulle Edith Piaf George Pompidou Thierry Henry Zinedine Zidane Emile Zola Brigitte Bardot Pierre-Auguste Renoir  Paul Gauguin Joan of Arc And then I got on to the hard ones. I managed only seven for Norway and the same for Sweden. I could not come up with the full ten for Italy, Spain or Germany but I was nearly there. And what about the two most populous nations on Earth? India and China?  I am ashamed to say that off the top of my head I was unable to give ten names for either of these countries. It was the same with Russia - nearly there but not quite. So I am passing th...

It’s four pm How did that happen? What have I done today? I slept late, I know that much, and I’ve shopped for lunch tomorrow and for dog food. I’ve booked a pottery lesson for next Wednesday evening and for the cinema on Thursday followed by an on line evening zoom Night with Patricia Cornwall on Fane  Next week I’m working more hours than I should I’ve had a bath and cooked Korean noodles for lunch tomorrow and walked the dogs  I downloaded my covid pass, bought some Christmas gifts on line and “talked” to my friend Ben who was drinking beer on his Korean balcony in Seoul . Autumn days just fly by.  It’s almost dark and from my office window the village lights are just starting to twinkle  through the Church yard trees It’s 4 pm …….how did that happen? from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3cpYfrv