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  I have blogged about Britain's Rwanda plans before. Go here. The government still have not  sent a single asylum seeker or a single economic migrant there in spite of spending millions on the ludicrous and pointless scheme. However, it appears that we have successfully processed six asylum seekers from Rwanda! You cannot make this stuff up. from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/dWTk5Oc

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Ask any native British person to name a famous nurse from history and they are sure to mention Florence Nightingale. Though she was born in Florence, Italy most of her childhood happened in and around the village of Holloway in Derbyshire. She played a big part in dragging nursing into the modern world and is also fondly remembered as "The Lady With The Lamp" who tended to wounded soldiers during The Crimea War (1853-1856). I walked through Holloway today. The stone houses shown below all most probably predate America's declaration of independence by decades or even centuries. As you can see, it was a sunny day but bitterly cold. It had taken me an hour to drive to the area, passing by Chatsworth House and then through Matlock. Below, a sheep farm with its modern farmhouse to the east of Holloway. The gang of sheep were enjoying supplementary feed as the sweet, fresh grass they prefer is currently dormant, awaiting the arrival of another spring. Down in the valley o...

 Prayer requests For my friend CC who has had a rough couple of weeks.  For me not to compare myself to others For the joy of the Lord to be mine Praises For Barb’s MRI results that were much better than expected, and that it continues.  For a warm home For the delicious oranges I ate this morning Your turn? from R's rue https://ift.tt/OcAWmrV

When the news was over, I was about to get up from the sofa when a film came on the BBC. It was "A Star Is Born" starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. Having never seen it before, I kind of got hooked and before you knew it two hours had passed by and the film was over. I know it received many plaudits when it first came out back in October 2018 and tonight I was nicely entertained by it but not knocked out, not wowed. Lady Gaga gave a great performance as rising star Ally Maine and the same was true of  Bradley Copper playing ageing country star Jack Maine.  The ending seemed strange. The reasons for Jack's suicide were not entirely clear or convincing and we did not get to witness the reality of the death and its aftermath - including a funeral. It seemed quite inauthentic from my viewpoint. Anyway, if I had got up from the sofa at ten thirty you would have been reading a much better blogpost than this one. It was going to be an Oscar winner but now I have forgott...

 Rise up Unleash the heart Love Heal And find The reason You live Seek peace Within To free The You That is encased In bubble wrap Waiting to pop And scream While trying to let The most exuberant  Exhale Release From the seams from R's rue https://ift.tt/8E4yhPC

When you write poetry as I have been doing intermittently since the age of seven, it is easy to get caught up in the moment of completion - when you determine that the poem is done, finished. However, it is often illuminating to reconsider poems you wrote months, years or even decades before - to see them anew. It can be like reviewing somebody else's poetry. Over the years, I have posted numerous self-crafted poems here at "Yorkshire  Pudding".  I have tended to title such blogposts "Poem" in order to facilitate my own future searches. However, that is not always the case and back in December 2018 I shared an environmental poem I had written called "Once" under that blogpost title. I guess that countless poems concerning Nature, the environment and anxiety about our planet's future have been produced in the last decade. It's hard to say anything new or original on the topic. Most of us feel the pain of what is going on out there and we fe...