R's rue

I didn’t finish choir tonight.  I was stood next to the village hall’s burning hot radiator and it set me coughing my post covid cough and made me feel quite faint. We had finished the tricky Tender Heart so I sat outside listening to the singing before coming home.  I only missed 20 minutes. Heulwen called in this evening to check if I was ok.  I had told fellow bass Brian I was taking some air but I’d forgotten he’s deaf in his right ear. I bought a hydrangea and some bedding plants for Trendy Carol today as a thank you for dog sitting. Tomorrow I’ve booked a ticket to see Benediction  CBM measured the patio dimensions and will give me a quote for the new roof. He liked how I’ve titivated the bathroom   from Going Gently https://ift.tt/rclMnyB

Just look at the pain in that woman's face. It is a look that says, "I am scared. So scared. Scared and alone. Why are they taking a picture of me? What have I done wrong?"   She belongs, or perhaps belonged, to the Uyghur ethnic group, residing in the province of Xinjiang in western China. Her name is  Hawagul Tewekkul and she is  fifty years old if indeed she is still alive. She was forced to reside in a re-education centre (aka prison)  along with thousands of other Uyghurs. By the way there are some 12.8 million Uyghurs in  China. It seems that the idea of these state re-education camps is to teach the inmates to become more Chinese, to reject Islam and to embrace all that is truly Chinese - including Mandarin and  modern communism. Methods employed include bullying, forced sterilisation, physical beatings, rape, sleep-deprivation, electrocution and chanting. Naturally the all-powerful Chinese government downplays the re-education progr...

 The laughter Ringing through Echoing  Sending the shivers Of giddy delight Must be  Summer Longer nights To bathe  In Nature’s  Glory from R's rue https://ift.tt/fgVRL6G