On my way to my massage session yesterday I stopped off in the Botanical Gardens. I had already bought The Guardian and I sat on a bench overlooking the view above as I read the newspaper. I am feeling more hopeful about the Labour Party as more MPs are putting their heads above the parapet to say Labour need to remember their electorate. My MP tells me she will not vote for the Welfare Reform Bill. We don’t need to attack the least able in society. I know, why not put 1p on income tax for those on higher incomes. It would raise substantially more than the Winter Fuel Allowance and welfare cuts combined and more importantly, it would be fair. Those with the broadest shoulders etc. Rant over.
Gitanjali and Beyond is a publication produced in Edinburgh that a local Poet is the Creative Editor for. She ran the Sheffield Carers Life Writing Group that I was part of. She asked me if she could forward three of my poems for possible inclusion in their recent publication. A Room of My Own, For Our Grandson and A Rest in the Grace of the World. They have all been published. I include one of them below.
This week I also saw a feelgood film called ‘The Friend’. Set in New York a woman is bequeathed a dog on the death of a friend.
