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  It’s been a long night all told Even with a few hours sleep before I left the house last night. My times of burning the candle at both ends feels to be somewhat over and I’m looking forward to bed this morning. Bed with bulldog licks on the soles of my feet. There was a gift waiting at work for me last night Pressed into my cubbyhole alongside papers on palliative care and mail was a gift wrapped neatly in brown paper.  It was from my friend , one of the hospice doctors Two artworks of Dorothy and Mary It kinda made my day. I will leave you with this simple thought for the day There is a lot of psycho babble on the internet But this wise old woman keeps it simple, to the point and uses language we all understand Doesn’t that make life sound so…… So………. Simple…… from Going Gently https://ift.tt/PM5yTU3

  The actor and playwright Emlyn Williams was born and bred just over a hill or so from Trelawnyd in the village of Pen Y Ffordd which literally means top or end of the road It is said that he spent some of his childhood in or around Trelawnyd but I can’t find reference to this today. Having said this , I’m a bit blurry eyed this morning, sat, like I am in Russel Square gardens with an Americano and a slight hangover. The Corn Is Green is Williams’ autobiographical account of how an education furnished by an astute schoolteacher gave a poor illiterate child miner a helping hand in life.  Most of us will remember the story from the Bette Davis 1945 film. Powerhouse spinster Lily Moffat ( Nicola Walker)  inherits a Manor House in a small rural village in North Wales. Helped by an English singleton Miss Ronberry (Alice Orr Ewing) and a staunch baptist Mr Jones ( Richard Lynch) she turns the hall into a school of boys and in a difficult mission to educate the vil...