Going Gently

After Elias

In the end I couldn't change our Les Miserables tickets on line. so had to speak to a real human being at the Sondheim theatre box office ca…

Mrs Trellis was more chatty today. She was hurrying because she’d left stew simmering but stopped long enough to call “ Your Laburnum is glorious …

People can be rather sniffy about animated films, but I think the above clip clearly shows what little works of art they can be. Last night I watc…

On the back of yesterday’s post I wanted to remind and share this photo of Albert and Winnie Taken six years ago now Albert absolutely adored …

Yesterday Village Leader Helen, asked for some help in auditing the wildlife at the pond. Fourteen of us turned up , just enough to scare most of…

For the very first time in weeks now, Albert followed us on our last walk of the day. It’s been a nice day all told, ( I will tell you about the P…

This photo was taken exactly five years ago. Nuala’s birthday in Kenmare in Ireland I was at my lowest ebb ever then and she kept my head above w…

I think I’ve generally been sympathetic to the rail strike, even though it has affected me several times during sojourns to the capital and beyon…

The alliums are flowering in the garden and look lovely despite not fully open this morning. I cut Centaurea Montana ( Mountain Cornflower) for…

I’ve seen hundreds of vigils in my time Perhaps even a thousand . One sticks in my mind more than any other and it was in Sheffield in the 19…

Dinnerladies 1999 "We've all got problems, I lost 8 tropical fish in a power cut last week “ from Going Gently https://ift.tt/1CAD…

My bladder is playing up today. It does this from time to time and as it was with Paul Edgecombe from The Green Mile I’ve been plagued by cramps …

Does anyone else feel as though they are on catch up all of the time? At times I can be almost overwhelmed by the size my to do list And my li…

I’m in the Storyhouse library/ cafe with my paper bucket of coffee. I’m completing my final entries for my college workbook and journal. In an hour…

Ooooooh, I’ve got a bit of a sore head this morning A case of too many peroni beers last night. I felt rough as a bears arse. Ruth and I took the…

I’m Fairly indifferent to the music But with my old friend Ruth in tow, we manned the door and counted in seventy odd souls from Trelawnyd to enj…

In the mid 1980s I went to see Les Miserables on my own in London. I was twenty three or so A very gauche and young twenty three. I saw the pro…

I’ve seen hundreds of vigils in my time I’ve seen hundreds of vigils in my time Perhaps even a thousand . One sticks in my mind more than an…

Night shifts have come around awfully quickly this week. Back tonight. I finish Saturday morning which will mean I can watch Eurovision in the…

I am consistently amazed that such in innocuous blog such as Going Gently can rile some readers into such apoplexy and anger. It baffles me, as d…