Storytelling Starters ~ Back for more
Saturday, February 5th, 2022
So today is the start of the Six Nations rugby championship and, oh dear, it’s a worry. Evidently, none of my favourite Welsh players will be on the field against Ireland. Leigh Halfpenny, Alun Wyn Jones, George North and so many others will be out because of injury.
But injuries and absences cannot possibly make any difference at all to my loyalties. Watching a Six Nations game, those loyalties are one million per cent with Wales. Bad luck can make no difference. Ah well, whatever will be will be. I only hope that the current injuries in the Welsh team will clear up quickly. And meantime, I can only imagine that the players who won’t be on the field because of injuries will be as sad or even sadder than me.
Now, I must report that as the sun is bright Paul and I may go for a walk on the lookout for some fascinating new characters that have recently come into our lives. These are The Strolling Fogeys. We first came across them on Whitesands beach on a very sunny recent day. There they were, more or less in front of us as we walked along. I don’t know why we hadn’t been aware of them before. But now that we are, we’ll be disappointed if we don’t see them again. And of course, that’s all too possible. No bright sunshine, no Fogeys. Who are the Fogeys?
So there we are except for one more thing, namely a special wish for tomorrow afternoon. For that’s when our WIPs group will be meeting. WIPs stand for Works in Progress and Lockdown has meant a long, long gap. It will be excellent to be together again and sharing whatever we’ve prepared. For we’re a very diverse group in terms of what we individually offer. One of us writes poems. Another plays the piano. Another sings. Some of us write prose pieces. Yet another plays the violin.
Oh, and there will be tea. I’m planning on contributing Welsh cakes. This is often my particular contribution since they always seem to go down so well. And of course it’s nice to provide what goes down well. So there we are except to say that I hope you not only find something nice to eat this weekend but also something nice to do.