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 What are you making for Christmas dinner? Are you traveling? What are you watching? from R's rue https://ift.tt/3po0piN

 Two and a bit hours at The Crown was lovely  Chic Eleanor was on fine form and wore a scarlet pashmina because it was Christmas  I have perspective after seeing her The rest of the night has been Sex and The City- Just like That episode 4 The series is getting better and better for me Tonight the ‘girls’ new friends come into play … Black Charlotte ( a fantastically wisecracking Nicole Ari Parker ) is a breath of fresh air, Miranda has a sexuality and drink issue, and  Carrie moves back into her apartment …this all happens when white Charlotte cancels Harry’s colonoscopy in a coffee shop,  Stanford wants a divorce ( that killed me), and Asian Seema ( Samantha stand in)    is selling Carrie and Big’s apartment  So much going on….too much politically correct to be sure , but really I loved it The episode had a great deal to say about real friendship  But I WAS slightly drunk lol Hey ho from Going Gently https://ift.tt...

  Mrs Trellis marshalling one of my field open days a few years ago The Hat!! It was dark yesterday afternoon, when there was a tiny  tap tap tap at the Lane window. It was so quiet even Mary missed it. It was Mrs Trellis with a gift,a card and some bad news. Farmer Basil’s sister Mona had passed away last Monday  She was in her nineties and he is in his eighties, and they had both had shared the glorious old  Georgian farmhouse overlooking the village  since they were children. The farmhouse is called ochr y Gop ( side of the Gop Hill) I invited Mrs Trellis in but she refused due to covid, so we talked in the dark wet cold cold until my teeth chattered  Mrs Trellis is cooking a partridge for Christmas dinner……a pheasant, she informed me, if Basil accepts a plate. This morning I popped up to Ochr Y Gop with cake and a sympathy card , Basil is a darling man and one who has always been kind to me. His sister, Mona was the school mistr...