R's rue

 Health  Hope  And joy  This new year from R's rue https://ift.tt/Zp3utzP

Some people mark the passing of time through the turning of seasons but for others it's all down to the annual  Laughing Horse Blogging Awards. This year there was to have been a massive party at Bantry House in Ireland with invited guests being flown in from all over the world. The champagne would have flowed and lady bloggers in chiffon gowns would have tittered behind their lacy handkerchiefs. Luxury accommodation had been booked for all with spectacular views over Bantry Bay and the promise of a full Irish breakfast in the morning - despite the inevitable hangovers. Bantry House - What might have been The Committee noted that 2022 has been another great year for blogging.  Special mention was made regarding Mr S. Reed of West Hampstead , London  who has blogged every day for the last eight years  in his excellent "Shadows and Light" blog. He illustrates his blogposts with his own high quality photo-images. The star of the blog is undoubtedly his pet ...

No matter how old we are we all are works in progress. I’ve been changing the pages in my filofax and I’m very aware of how yin yang this last year has been  Covid restrictions being lifted should have meant everything in the garden was rosy but travel chaos, flight cancellations and rail bollocks has put paid to my trips to Rome and Barcelona and London whilst the recession, fuel crisis and financial crash has sobered us all up from our post-covid frivolities  And so, let me get 2022 into some perspective  Let’s look at the positives I’m on the tentative journey towards a new career. My family met up for a delightful and oh so necessary reunion in Sitges where we sat together into the small wee hours talking and talking and talking about family shit.  Sadly my nephew divorced and we bonded more over something sad in common. My love affair with London and with theatre blossomed again, not only, with my touchstone meets with Nu continuing but with catch ...