R's rue

  Here's a cute kitten! Everybody say Awww! Here's a cute puppy with a teddy bear! Everybody say Awww! And here's a cute naked mole rat upon a black cloth. Everybody say Arrghhh! from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/3oEkdOh

 At 6.30pm  Radio Four  showcases its comedy half hour. To be honest this can be all a bit hit and miss given their  inclusivity  remit but I have found their series  Relativity by Richard Herring rather vital and sweetly moving. Today’s episode was a four handed between sixty some parents Ken and Margaret ( Phil Daniels and Alison Steadman) and their grown up children Jane and Ian ( Fenella Woolgar and Richard Herring)  It was essentially half an hour of a family remembering family holidays from the early 1980s where the Children bickered about being left in dangerous situations, no one wore seat belts and where egg and chips  was the go to meal of the day.  The mini play was full of affection and nostalgia and brimmed with the observations of the unsaid ties between siblings and parents from an age not far from my own and listening to it underlined my own ties with sisters who shared a lifetime so different ( and then so not)...

 Who are you grateful for? What are you grateful for? The place that made you grateful? Mom Change within self It’s been more than a decade since I stepped foot in Assisi, Italy. I remember it like it was yesterday. Gingerly walking in that church filled with incense and organs, I was transported into a holy experience. The tears welled up. It was a culmination of a dream that became real. A God who made the impossible, possible. The joy of the Lord is when you appreciate the journey as much or more than the destination.  from R's rue https://ift.tt/3lOLPPd