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| Beautiful Stoodley Pike |
I have so many potential posts buzzing around my head at the
moment.
I have been wanting to blog about gardening in the
Minervois, comparing it with the Yorkshire gardening I do, including some
details about a wonderful gardening course I went on in Caunes, just before I
left.
I want to write about some of the walks I've done since being back in Yorkshire.
I have loads I want to write about working in the Hospice
shop.....although, the manager and I have joked about the TV sit-com we could
write....so maybe the blog will have to wait until we have become famous as
writers of the latest block busting TV show. Now Miranda is ending her
show...maybe she’ll be available to play one of the volunteers.
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| Christmas meal with the staff and volunteers from the Overgate Hospice shop in Hebden Bridge. |
I have made some breakthroughs in my family history research
and want to share some of that. Discovering the dying words of a great uncle
and aunt, through a “War Cry” article from the 1920s, was quite something. So I
now have the urge to share a little about the life of my great uncle Leopold his wife and his amazing children.
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| Miriam Murch....one of my great uncle Leopold's children, who devoted her life to the Salvation Army |
Today I became livid to discover that the law supposedly
ending the use of wild animals in British circuses has been stalled due to the
outrageous ignorance and stupidity of 3 Tory mps. I blogged earlier in the year
about the awful situation in France, when I stumbled upon tigers and a hippo
being caged up on a traffic island in Carcassonne prior to being dragged around
the French countryside in wagons no bigger than a postage stamp. Now I find
that the Brits are just as bad. Aggghhhh.
So.....as all these things pile up in my head, and Christmas
approaches, and there are walks to go on, French to practice, my up and coming
60th birthday party to plan, grandchildren to spend time with,
concerts in Hebden Bridge to attend, and of course, the shop to work
in......nothing is getting written.
I am reading blogs, perhaps not interacting through
commenting as much as I’d like to.....but time just seems to dash on.
Anyway, if I don’t get around to blogging again before
Christmas, I hope you all have a really happy one.
I will write the
things I am thinking about.....but it
may be a while before I get around to them.
In the meantime, I’m just going to include a few photos of
my very small and crowded “workspace”. Calling it an office would be
overstating things. It is more like a very crowded cupboard. I hope to be spending more time in it soon, so I can get these buzzing blogs written.
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| All of the above photos show my "workspace"......the last image being my grandfather, with his 3 wives. Technically, only the first, Hylda, was really his wife. My grandmother, on the right,Queenie, was the third. |