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Tuesday

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  In a week when covid life seems to be threatening to curtail life again and where night shifts do exactly the same thing, I was grateful for the lunacy that is BBC Radio4 ‘s podcast of I’m sorry I haven’t a Clue This week one of the games for the contestants was to share alternative television programmes titles that would be interesting to watch Marcus Brigstocke, won hands down with his “ On BBC’s Area programme sculptor Antony Gormley unveils his statue of the Russian leader made entirely from caramel in Antony Gormley’s Sticky Toffee Putin on BBC 2 “ I love the clever madness of this joke. I have no other news from yesterday .I got up briefly at three pm to collect the post from its plastic box outside the front door and to walk the dogs.  I had ten Christmas cards which I read then hung up on a string which “ circles” the living room beams. I like the tradition of hanging the cards even if clambering on the backs of the sofa and chairs is somewhat precarious...

Questions

 What is bringing you joy? What are you making? What are you baking? What can I pray for? What is making you smile right now? I have several unspoken prayer requests. Would you pray? from R's rue https://ift.tt/33tCqWW

2010

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Looking back through my photo library, it's time to recollect 2010. Eleven years ago when coronavirus pandemics only happened in the pages of preposterous science fiction novels. My photos for that year are filed in a folder named, rather unsurprisingly, "2010 Archive". In snowy January into February I spent forty hours or more down in our underhouse area working on a mosaic that was inspired by my trip to Easter Island the previous year. It depicts the "birdman" that I had seen carved into the rocks above the cliffs of Orongo. In competition, brave young men would swim out to those offshore islets to collect the first sooty tern eggs of the year:- In April, Shirley and I enjoyed a short break in Valencia, Spain - flying out there courtesy of one of Britain's budget airlines. This picture shows two of the modernistic buildings in the city's science park. You can see two window cleaners at work - almost as brave as the cliff divers of Orongo:- In...