And Just Like That, The Perfect Ending…….

 Spoilers

Now I have to be honest from the get go

I loved the last episode of And Just Like That……

After just nine episodes ( some of them very clunky) the season finally reverted back to the Sex Of The City of old and got back into its well paced and solid stride.

The finale closed a few doors and opened others

Carrie let go of Big and starts a new career and a kiss with her hunky promoter 

Miranda goes to Los Angeles for a few months to support Chay ( it will end in tears)

And Charlotte remains the frilly back bone of all after a disastrous Bar Mitzvah is made good.

Ok we can all do without the infertile Black Professor storyline but  the unapologetic Seema (Sarita Choudhury) is an energetic addition to the cast even though the men ( Steve and Harry) have been under utilised so far.

Anthony ( Mario Cantone) thank god is still blessed with all of the great one liners ( as well as a rainbow yarmulke ) and I loved Hari Nef ‘s introduction as the wise transgender Rabbi Jen. 

She stole the show for me.

Hari Nef as Rabbi Jen

And so we are set for season 2 …..and I hope there will be a season 2 

And after a clunky start I loved the fact that just after Carrie gently scattered Big’s ashes into the Seine , she arranged to meet with Samantha off screen in Paris for cocktails thus sort of reuniting the friends albeit long distance one last time

Samantha will not be returning we all know that , but with peace made everything can move on nicely

And that’s where the series gives all us 50 somethings hope 

It moves on nicely.

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Village News

The day has gone.

And just like that ……

I went to bed for an hour not long after midday and woke at 5 pm.

Everything was dark save for my sister’s fairy lights above the patio which twinkle away quite merrily, the back of the cottage now feels warm and loved.

I’m on nights again 

Until Sunday 

The dogs and I have walked around the village and all is quiet.

The Community Association is organising a post lockdown meal at the Crown in March and I received the email today inviting me to go. 

Dorothy H ‘s old bungalow has sold on London Road.

The huge trees surrounding The Rectory have been pruned by a tree surgeon and their silhouettes are stumpy against the night sky.

Oh and someone out of Trelawnyd placed a rare set of plates with prints of the village houses on them on the village Facebook page for sale which I endeavoured to buy for the Hall to display but they had already sold which was a bummer.

I messaged Affable Despot Jason asking him if he wants to go to the comedy club night at Theatre Clwyd and have arranged to meet up with Chic Eleanor and friends for a dinner party in between shifts.

Albert has had his wormer and will be soon killing baby rabbits to eat from the Churchyard Warren and Dorothy fell asleep, sitting up by my side earlier, happy that her bottom was touching my thigh

J

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Praise

 Coffee in hand 

Music beside me

Praising

As I contemplate

My next move

On this warm

Spring-like day

I recall days 

Of drinking fruit juice

And eating tuna salad

At the swimming pool

On Miami Beach

Speaking Spanish

With mi abuelita 

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Earthbound

Every year dozens of new species of animals, insects and plants are recorded on this small planet. I find that kind of mind blowing. There we are sending rockets into space and yet we don't entirely know what we have down here - in our forests, our mountains, our rivers and our oceans.

It is rather tragic to think that as acres of virgin rain forest are destroyed, we frequently lose species that are gone before we have even discovered them.  Collectively, we are meant to be guardians of Earth but evidence suggests that we don't care a fig. We continue to destroy what we have got.

The tiny brookesia nana chameleon shown in the top video was "discovered" just last year though almost certainly it was already known to some inhabitants of northern Madagascar. "Discovered" sometimes means recorded by Science for the first time.

Also "discovered" in 2021 was The Bright Orange Bat (myotis nimbaensis) found only in caves in the Nimba Mountains of West Africa:-

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