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Cruddy Larry by LuVicarious Since before Christmas I have been on a cruddy journey that has involved coughing, sneezing, phlegm, sleepiness and disturbed nights, loss of appetite and taste plus one or two other symptoms of cruddiness that are hard to pin down. I don't know what you would call this thing. Certainly not a cold and not flu either but I am positive that it has nothing to do with the COVID vaccinations I have received. That's just nonsense from conspiracy theorists and  QAnon nutcases. With just a slightly sore throat remaining, I am pretty much through the cruddiness now. Being unwell does not sit well with me for as I was saying the other day, I have been generally  blessed with robust good health throughout my life thus far. We looked after Little Phoebe today and now she is sleeping in her cot upstairs because we will be looking after her again tomorrow. Her mummy spent the day at her office in London. Usually she works from home but occasionally has to go...

This short drone movie , moved me so very much tonight.  It was sent to me by a dear friend who I worked with on Spinal Injuries with the note  “ this will make you cry”  And it did And it sort of captured the pride I have for a city I no longer live in , but which I adore so very much. I had a lovely time touching base with old friends yesterday and this afternoon.  Tea and cake in Kathryn’s cosy front room with Vince just as sweet as sitting smiling at John H holding court with me and Mike in All Bar One  and Jane running through the sodden streets with our umbrella giving up the ghost. from Going Gently https://ift.tt/NfD10MC

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  I’m in Mark’s having a coffee.  Just enough time for a sausage ciabatta and a blog before I meet the others. Standing At The Sky Edge is a lovely Sheffield own musical. cleverly staged and impeccably acted it explores three generations in the history of one of the Hyde Park Flats In Sheffield. A listed building built in the 1950s  as a  “streets in the sky” panacea to slum clearance .  And so we meet 1960s young couple Harry & Rose .  She a loyal housewife , he an idealist foreman in the steel industry, they move and laugh and love in their flat in the sky alongside an 1980s Liberian immigrant family and 2017 Poppy a unhappy lesbian from London in search of a new life in the recently upgraded and trendy housing complex. The three stories unwind on stage together and it takes some very clever choreography to keep the action going and storylines precise and clear but Richard Hawley and Chris Ode for the most part carry the whole thing off admir...