When only M&Ms will do

Had the five local grandchildren around for lunch and the afternoon yesterday. GrandDaughter1 asked if my back was better. I said it was and she said, 'It's your first old woman thing!'

I didn't bother correcting her and telling her about all the other little aches and pains.

Had her brother for a short while this afternoon too as he didn't want to go too far in the car with them. Poor thing is still suffering post Covid. I made some M&M cookies to cheer us all up. 

I think we all needed cheering up after waking up to the news that Russia has invaded Ukraine. Very black days.

I have just watched the film Red Joan, based on a true story of an 87-year-old English woman who was unmasked as a spy. After World War II she passed on nuclear secrets to the Russians, not because she was a Communist sympathiser but for parity. She was convinced to do so after Hiroshima believing in the need for both sides to have the nuclear deterrent in the hope that neither would dare use it. As she says in her defence when she is finally unmasked, 'Well, it's worked for fifty years.'

Dame Judi Dench plays the quintessential English woman pottering in her neat semi-detached garden when the police come for her, and the story is told in flashbacks.