R's rue

By The River Don at Sprotborough  The Lone Ranger and Silver were reunited today. For my first proper walk since COVID mugged me, Clint kindly carried me to Conisbrough this morning. It took forty minutes to get there. Clint insisted that I should park him in the little car park at the railway station and I duly complied. There I donned my walking boots and set off over The River Don, soon crossing what was once a coal mining landscape and then over The River Dearne which meets the Don just west of Consibrough. I met two women on the footbridge over the Dearne and one of them said I sounded like the poet Andrew Motion though I think she meant Simon Armitage - every word measured and weighed. Fresh sycamore leaves in the spring sunshine Then onward to Denaby Ings. I like the word "ings". It is used more commonly in Yorkshire than in any other English county. The term is of Norse origin and refer to water meadows, marshes or land that is often flooded. Ings are freque...

 Wins for the day Gardening Enjoyed Weetabix and bananas for lunch Won a book What are yours? from R's rue https://ift.tt/gJw1Uno

Sometimes a little gem of a show comes along and grabs you by the balls. A Night Without Kate  is one of those shows. Part tribute act, part stand up, and part cabaret it is a tour de force  one woman show by actress singer Sarah Louise Young who fell in love with Kate Bush as a school girl and who has never wanted to forget her idol. Using costume, humour and stage effects Young performs some lovely versions of Bush’s most famous songs and in one memorable moment of pure theatre she asked a older couple in the audience who was “interviewed “ in the warm up to dance together on the stage as she sang Don’t Give Up It was a beautiful and incredibly moving moment in a warm, engaging and nostalgic show I loved it. I’m glad Gorgeous Dave liked it too, although being in his thirties, he was unaware of most of the songs from Going Gently https://ift.tt/QfegaTh