We have been there before

 

Dickens's sentence in full reads, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way . Taken from Rebecca Solnit's - Winners and Losers: A Hell of a Week in the Us of A    💖💗💗 Been rather messy in Britain as well.....😎  There is a little girl outside yelling her head off about going to school.  Life is just miserable sometimes. Take this rose bush for instance it is called 'Jam and Jerusalem', someone nursed this hybrid into life, probably over years, but then a few years on it developed, for me, the most terrible case of black spot on the leaves and slowly died.  Historically significant for me but not for you.