R's rue

Leeds What is England? The blowing of a horn and red-jacketed men on horseback. A leather cricket ball struck by a wooden bat. Strawberries and cream at Wimbledon. "Order! Order!" in The House of Commons. Punting along The River Cam. A garden party at The Vicarage. Downton Abbey and Jane Eyre and plays by William Shakespeare. English muffins and scones with jam and clotted cream. Building sandcastles at the seaside. Oldham in Greater Manchester War heroes and monuments. The jet engine and the hovercraft. Pop groups and Andrew Lloyd Webber. David Niven and good manners. Billy Bunter and Mr Bean and Monty Python. And public footpaths that wind their way through farmland and over rickety footbridges where willows cascade. The cooing of doves. Tumbledown abbeys and schoolboys in straw boaters. Someone is singing "Greensleeves". "Bisto" gravy powder in the cupboard with "Oxo" cubes and H.P. sauce. A minaret  rising over the rooftops. Hull Wil...

  I met a similar looking guy on Saturday night who I had a lovely long chat with Unfortunately just found out that he is straight  Bloody hell lol, What a bugger……some straight guys flirt with everyone  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/23p9JKd

 God It’s me You teach Even when I’m not In a mood To listen Soften my heart To your Will from R's rue https://ift.tt/RjxqlWy

  For some this will be a boring ‘ bad” blog No long conversations. No long replies. No in depth recognition of the merits of off the wall films.  No discussions on everything important. So be it.  I have covid again and I’m grounded from a much anticipated cinema trip. Apart from feeling I’m swallowing ground glass when I sip my coffee I’m fine. My back garden looks like the stink bombs front garden. I realised that yesterday. Now the “ stink bombs” were a family who lived in a rough looking council house near my primary school. The hedges were unkempt, and opened up wide enough in one side to allow the Ford cortina to park up to the living room windows. Scattered around would be a skip load of mostly broken plastic toys , a deflated paddling pool and beer cans.  Even as 8 year old children , we were snobby and judgemental.  Not nice eh? I only turned into Anne Shirley Cuthburt when I was a teen. My garden has a look of the stink bombs and ...