R's rue

Abandoned cottages at Langholme Manor Saturday morning. Sheffield was bathed in gorgeous sunshine and there wasn't a cloud in the blue winter sky. Our garden was still sheathed in frost.  Shirley went off to her aquarobics session at a nearby gym but not until after I had let her know that I was planning to drive over to Misterton in north Nottinghamshire to take some pictures and walk four or five miles. She said she would join me on the drive over if I could wait till eleven thirty. Several of her blood relations live in Misterton, including three cousins, so it was a good opportunity to spend time with them. When we drove east from Sheffield we soon hit a bank of fog in  the valley of The River Rother. Then we were through it and back into sunshine but when we reached Bawtry there was more fog. Roadside vegetation, hedges and trees were all coated in thick hoar frost. Up above teasing sunshine kept threatening to break through the murk. I deposited Shirley at "The...

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I checked my landline answerphone yesterday .  Eight messages since New Year’s Eve  I never use the phone now except when I call Nigel .  His home phone blocks incoming mobile calls Four silent entries, 2 spam, and one from covid help line about my fourth jab. The final message was a passive aggressive message from Mrs Davies in the village asking if I was alive or not . She said she had not seen me in months and wished me happy new year.  She’s lonely and had probably fallen out with her son again , so I harnessed Mary and called round to say hello. Luckily she was out , so I left a note saying hello and apologising for my absence stating I will work full time ( with college)  I doubt I’ll be forgiven It was cold and blustery, but the weather did us both good and we had a proper mooch around the village, something I haven’t done in a good while, not with Dorothy hating a walk near the main road. We walked around Bron Haul and I waved at Marion...