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The poem is new to me  It slaps you hard when heard for the first time does it not ? The words AND the performance  It’s Nu’s birthday today, she’s in Turkey  Off to work from Going Gently https://ift.tt/E37XJkK

It is 11.30pm  and I have just got home from babysitting duties. Little Phoebe was no trouble at all. We have been blessed with such a lovely granddaughter - now sixteen months old. When she wakes up in her cot she waves at the cuddly toys that surround her - her favourite one being Monty the Sloth. He is very soft - just like me. I have come home to an empty house because Shirley and her sister Carolyn are away for the weekend in a big house in Quorn, Leicestershire. There they are meeting up with ten of their cousins - all women. It has become something of an annual tradition. By the way, the village's name predates the vegetarian food company "Quorn", to which it gave its name, by a few centuries.  On Thursday afternoon my son-in-law's grandfather Brian died at the age of ninety four down in Stratford-upon-Avon. He drove his wife to the supermarket on Tuesday.  He lived in his own home.  Brian enjoyed good health all his life but in early April he was struck d...

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Kitchen table Coffee. The bantam cockerel is noisy next door which is strange as it’s 10.30. I’m planning my cooking for the weekend as I’m working both days Katsu curry, sushi and mushroom noodles. Tonight I’m out to dinner for a colleagues leaving do . The 1970s Italian in Conwy, Alfredo’s  More coffee, me thinks, then I need to post some birthday cards. Amongst others it’s Nu’s birthday tomorrow. My nephew texted me yesterday The message was simple and to the point. “ Julie and I had our first kiss today”  I was touched he had shared the milestone with me and managed a exuberant reply of “ OMG !” “ Yep “ came the economical and proud response. I told him to keep on practicing if he liked it  And he sent me lots of laughing emojis  😆🤣 Now my first kiss with a girl was a somewhat overblown and unpleasant affair, Her name was Eirian  and the kiss was wet and sloppy and passionless. She had a bosom that acted as though it had a brain of ...