R's rue

Almost the longest day. I have just walked home from "The Hammer and Pincers" after the Sunday night quiz. It was all downhill and the sky contained vestiges of the day just gone with remnants of sunset peach coloured and fuzzy in the west. There will be so little truly dark night tonight - perhaps three hours at most. In Iceland there will be no darkness at all. I love this time of year. It was Father's Day today. We went out for breakfast with Stew and Frances and Little Phoebe. Her behaviour was as angelic as it was five hours later when we took her down to "The Dark Horse" where fathers could claim free pints. Back home I received two Father's Day cards, six bottles of beer, a box of Maltesers and a Peppa Pig book titled "My Grandpa" which I read to Phoebe three times. For once Mistress Pudding made the Sunday dinner as I took a back seat. I thought some more about our visit to Wiltshire . The White Horse of Westbury carved into a chalky d...

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 Let it go Three words I don’t like  Because it signifies  The thing  I want most Is the one Thing I want most from R's rue https://ift.tt/yR3FfEO

 I hate it when people say something “  wasn’t meant to be” if a plan doesn’t come off  Of course it was meant to happen. It just didn’t . I’m full of the first proper cold I’ve experienced in three years.and so yesterday I licked my disappointed wounds mostly in bed, with vicks rubbed on the soles of my feet and slept most of the day and all of the night.  My sister, Janet called up this morning and completed my birthday garden makeover. She observed that my chest cold couldn’t have done well in the 35 degree heat and fumes of central Rome and she was right of course.  I’m wheezing like a fat walrus. I made a spicy katsu curry with salmon and coconut cream and tidied the cottage as it simmered with lashings of coriander . The neighbours commented on the lovely smell. I couldn’t eat it when it was cooked More lemon water for me My friend  Ruth sent me a photo of her minuscule static caravan toilet in a successful effort to lighten the mood. ...