COMING UP ROSES

Out today to buy a bottle of wine for my tea - & say, "Courage, my friend", to the Bangladeshi shop-keeper in the wee Alimentation Général - you can see it above the handle-bars of the big bike. He's serving behind a plexiglass protective barrier & righteously nervous...

At eighteen I believed I had wisdom sorted - at 79 I have no idea as to what wisdom might be?

These roses know better than me!