Month: July 2020

My father’s sister, Peggy got an infection in her neck glands so bad she had to have major surgery which left her jaw and throat disfigured and mangled from the age of ten. Protected by her doting mother, she got used to life in the shadows. . My birth in 1937 was followed within three… Continue reading Snapshot in Time: ‘Escaping from too much reality’ written by Pat Tempest

Streamng this week from the National Theatre  Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea   Helen McCrory plays Hester Collyer and Tom Burke is Freddie Page. A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair… Continue reading The Deep Blue Sea – National Theatre at Home

Dear all, Working alongside University of Leeds we are delighted to be able to offer a one off ‘Nature Writing Workshop’ for the Nature Revealed Project.  Ideally we would be gathered in a room yet COVID has changed how the workshop will happen. It is a pen pal style nature writing workshop done in the… Continue reading ‘Nature Writing Workshop’ with University of Leeds and Caring Together

Day 79 Shops & Shopping: The streets between Briggate and Vicar Lane were home to more Furriers, Suede & Leather and Sheepskin shops but also those selling musical instruments and sheet music, for example ‘Kitchen’s’. Round the corner was ‘Vallances’ where we could visit the listening booths and hear the latest records. Wearing headphones and… Continue reading Shared Moments: Day 79 – ‘Boodle Am’ written by Maureen Kershaw

‘Little Things’ Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land. Thus the little minutes, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of eternity. by Julia Fletcher Carney sourced:discoverpoetry.com

Good morning, Here’s ‘Monday Mind Workout’ answers from yesterday, how did you do? News Quiz A miner from Tanzania became a millionaire last month after finding what?   Tanzanite What did archaeologists find near Stonehenge?  Pre-historic shafts/holes Barcelona Opera had it’s first concert for 3 months with an audience of who or what? Potted plants (almost 3,000 plants were… Continue reading Monday Mind Workout – answers from Monday 6th July 2020

With all of the rain, the weeds have started taking over on the allotment so plenty of work to be done. Still, the beans have have also pushed forward so looking forward to them. The potato plants are pretty enormous this year. The last time they grew like this I ended up with hardly any… Continue reading Waiting for the harvest