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.  |
But that rose in its hey day was very beautiful, and so must we at one point in time be beautiful, or so I hope.
ReplyDeleteYes everything has its day, roses included Chris ;) but it was sad to see it give in to disease.
DeleteWhat a shame to lose such a beautiful rose.
ReplyDelete'Jam and Jerusalem- - the WI? Did you ever see the television series of that name with a brilliant cast? I thought it was very funny.
No I didn't but will watch some episodes on YT Janice. Roses and their blights are a hazard but the strong ones always pull through.
DeleteThanks for that article. It does help booster my hope.
ReplyDeleteIt was meant to Ellen. Slowly but surely his miserable acts are undone.
ReplyDeleteWe have a similar miniature rose that is very prone to black spot. Not fatally so, at least not yet, but every year it looks terrible by the end of the season.
ReplyDeleteYou know of course to clear the dead leaves from the soil, not that it makes a great deal of difference though. Still you have all those ladybirds to keep the greenfly off.
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