Summary week ending 6th March

[louisa maud]

So  pleased  you had  a  good day Viktoria, it  sounded  a  fun day just  what  you  needed

Been  very  dull today, just heard my grandaughter  got  home safely  from her trip to Poland,  been quite a worrying  time for me,  I  will hear about it tomorrow, she  has  asked  to come  for breakfast  before she returns to uni, so I will forgo church  just this once,  not sure when  she will  come home again
News  very  worrying  but we  have  to plod  on

LM

[Viktoria]

Very glad to get that news, I would have been and I know you were very worried , lovely she is coming to see you.

Just watching “ Dunkirk” ,gosh what momentous times we have seen,and are again.
Hope everyone is as well as can be expected ,such helplessness and real anger on my part that another megalomaniacal madman has started another war.
It takes a lot to rattle me but we are all different and I truly hope people are being as calm as they can , we may need our inner resources for a good while.
Meanwhile my hyacinths are in flower ,a couple of daffs,more unopened buds
coming on.
Hope I get to Church tomorrow.
Look after yourselves folks .
Viktoria.

[Erato]

I live about a block and a half from the Russian Embassy.  Rosario, my fruit and veg lady, has her shop directly opposite its front door.  It is a massive building built during the Soviet era when it was thought that, because of its elevation, Quito would be good place to put a listening post to monitor what's going on in South America.  In recent years, it has appeared to be mostly empty and one seldom sees anyone coming or going.  I went over to buy some apples and mushrooms today and found that there was a small anti-Russian demonstration underway - about 12 or 15 people, seemingly all Ecuadorians, and about the same number of cops to protect the building if things got out of hand.  Most of the passing cars honked in support.

Closer to home, just twenty yards from my front gate, are the installations of RTU Ecuador [the Russian television station].  All activity seems to have stopped there.  I don't know if they're still broadcasting; I watch very little tv and never RTU.

[Viktoria]

Whew!
I should not like to be so close to that.

Shopping yesterday,at a Supermarket ,there is a “baked in shop “ bakery,they do a nice loaf,half white flour half wholemeal.
The member of staff usually there bears a distinct resemblance to Putin!
A very pleasant person with  a very strong Russian accent ,she has worked there for good number of years.
Another customer was waiting for her bread to come from the slicer ,she and I did comment quietly on the great resemblance .

Can’t think what Putin hopes to gain as in the gaining he is destroying so much.
He probably wants it as it was before ,when all Eastern Europe was part of the Soviet Union.
It is the possibility of nuclear war that is so terrifying,our planet is in real trouble ecologically and we are almost at the point if no return ,nuclear weapons would surely mean the end ,so what would he have then ?

Might invite my nearish neighbour round this afternoon,so isolated ,almost no sight and very poor hearing ,I have to really speak loudly for her to hear ,she has an appt at the hearing clinic on 16 th, if her daughter can’t take her an ambulance ,not a fully kitted out one more like a mini bus with gadgets ,will collect her and bring her home but it needs booking a week before
I have given her the number ,might have to that for her .
How she manages I do not know.

Well if I am to get to church this morning I had better shape myself ,have to wait 30 mins after first tablet to eat or drink so thought I would look at my iPad to see how things were.
Look after yourself everyone.

Must look at TV for the latest news re Ukraine .
Viktoria.

[Rena]

I'm one of those people who seem to slow down during winter's dark dreary days and since I retired I've no reason to to do more than drag myself about doing the bare minimum.

Today, I arose with the lark to see bright blue skies and warming yellow sunshine and the first daffodil to bloom in my garden.

A further lightening of the spirits was reading that the Ukrainian defenders have actually captured alive the world's most wanted Russian pilot, who had also bombarded Aleppo civilians,  and caused the massive migration northward from Syria to Europe. 

url link

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01rce/

[Maiden Stone]

The member of staff usually there bears a distinct resemblance to Putin!
A very pleasant person with  a very strong Russian accent ,she has worked there for
Another customer was waiting for her bread to come from the slicer ,she and I did comment quietly on the great resemblance .

Well if I am to get to church this morning I had better shape myself

I hope that shop assistant doesn't realise she resembles Vlad P. or she may consider plastic surgery. Is her accent really Russian? There used to be a pleasant Polish woman who served me at a supermarket cafe.

Bury Polish Club was co-ordinating local collections of aid last week. Eccles has now taken over the task.
A village in this county was gridlocked one day with people delivering aid to a local depot, set up by a farmer with 2 Polish employees. The farm was once tenanted by a certain Robert Burns. A Robert Burns Humanitarian Award is given annually. The present farmer is a past winner in the annual BBC Food & Farming Awards.
Topic of "The Food Programme" on Radio 4 this lunchtime was food in Ukraine, how some Ukrainians are managing to eat now and how, in normal times, Ukraine feeds the world.
I'm thankful today that I'm able to visit a local store, that goods I need to buy are on the shelves and that I can afford them. "Give us this day our daily bread ... and deliver us from evil".

My mother urged me to shape myself on many Sunday and school mornings. I'd better shape myself now and get things done. 

   

[louisa maud]

Well my grandaughter has  returned  from  her  trip to Poland,  absolutely  no problems except  a few demo  leaflets  pinned up telling Putin  and his men where to go,  not politely  but it appears the  word  is the same anywhere in the world,  but I  suspect they willl get the message

Beautiful  day  today but chilly  but I  don't  mind chilly, can  cope with that

Hardly  believable we  start  a  new  week   tomorrow  and  in  a   couple of  weeks the  clock  change , roll  on  summer

LM

[Viktoria]

Yes she is Russian, they sort of chew their words then sound down their nose .
She used to have a naughty Scottie dog called Ruskie, ( sorry Ruskie) grumpy
- and her husband used to walk it .
It was totally disobedient ,,appeared stone  deaf but wasn’t and just ignored almost everything.
I’d had a Scottie, and whilst loving with us strangers did not exist.

Glorious day ,neighbour came round . She  seemed to think she had been given a blood transfusion ,but it was just a little bottle ,She had mentioned B12, so I said perhaps it was a B12 injection but she was sure it was a transfusion.

Did some batch cooking for freezer, chicken casserole.
Lots of veges, good with mashed potatoes or rice.

Hand washed some woolies ,had them for years , M&S, at least since 2004.
Had them for a holiday when we took grandchildren to Yorkshire with the new puppy which was six.months old .

Well another week gone by ,don’t  they go quickly when you are having fun!


Cheerio, look after yourselves ..Viktoria

[Erato]

I went to the corner store this afternoon and they had an American flag draped at the entrance.  I asked, "What's up with the flag?  The teenage daughters said, "We're supporting NATO and the United States against Russia."  Whoa.