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 |   The simplicity of my day to day. |
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This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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| PROMPT November 30th Wow, it's the end of the month! With Thanksgiving behind us (here in the States), and Christmas on the horizon, what, if any, are your Christmas traditions? If you have no holiday traditions, do you have any plans for this month? Oh my goodness, Christmas again! These days are Sooo different to years gone by. Christmas lunch was always at our house. Children, grandchildren, extended family and friends always gathered around at ours. It was a lot of hard work, preparation and money. Honestly I can’t say I was ever able to enjoy it because I used to run around like a crazy person, making sure everyone was having a great time. When they’d all gone home and I was able to relax with a glass of something, I’d replay the day in my mind and just hope it all went well and everyone was happy. Nowadays I leave it up to others. We usually get invited to our daughter’s house for lunch. I smile when I see her do some of the same things, but she doesn’t try as hard. She delegates, something I have trouble with. Our other children live too far away to spend Christmas with them. Christmas is for children. I never tire of seeing the magic of this time of year in the eyes of little ones. That’s where my gaze falls, watching the joy in their faces. Otherwise I’m a little jaded regarding the hype, commercialisation and monetary value placed on gifts. But I haven’t as yet turned into a Scrooge type of character. |
| PROMPT November 29th Imagine for a moment that you are near the end of your life. What do you want to have done that would make you feel satisfied? It doesn’t take much imagination to think about the end of my life. My husband and I are nearer eighty than seventy! I’ll never be satisfied to say “let’s go, that’ll do.” I really want to see how my little great grandchildren turn out. There’ll always be something I want to still be here for. I REALLY want to see what the future holds technologically. Who wouldn’t want to see what science comes up with next? The new medicines and cures. So no I’ll never be satisfied to die. I’ll always want more days, weeks months and years! |
| PROMPT November 28th Hopefully a little change of pace tonight. Write about something intangible: faith, magic, energy, power, or creativity. Just choose one topic, and write about it. Well I’m not very spiritual or airy fairy, more into practicality that’s me. However I’ve been watching The Great British Bake-off and I think that cooking incorporates all the things you ask for in today’s prompt. Intangible, faith, magic, power and creativity! I’m in awe how these contestants take basic ingredients and turn them into something amazing to look at and to taste. It’s a science I know but how does it happen that different people can turn those same ingredients into completely different end products? |
| PROMPT November 27th Things have progressed well in your town/city with the Pandemic. So well that you've been allowed to return to the office instead of working from home. Your co-worker Karly, is sneezing and coughing and refuses to wear a mask. Who do you call, or do you let it slide. Tell us why you would act that way. It’s one of my pet hates. People who come to work with a cold or flu are the most selfish people I know. I refuse to be around with someone who is coughing and sneezing. I would tell the boss that a co worker was spreading disease throughout the office and if the person with the cold doesn’t go home then I expect the boss to allow me to leave. |
| PROMPT November 26th Today is Thanksgiving here in the United States. I know this is the prompt for tomorrow, but I'm going to give you something to be thankful for. The prompt for tonight is to be yourself. Write whatever is on your mind. Provide your own prompt, so-to-speak. I look forward to reading your posts! Okay no prompt today. That means I can ramble on about my day then. Went to the shops. Huge mistake! Every man, woman, child and their dogs were there. It’s Black Friday of course. Didn’t buy a thing because the parking was crazy, it was very hot ( 36 degrees) and I decided it wasn’t necessary to be there. Normally at this time of the year my Christmas shopping would be done and wrapped. But this year for some reason I’ve hardly given it a thought. It looks like either a trip to the Liquor Store for gifts and the supermarket for vouchers. I know, no thought whatsoever but that’s how Im feeling. Maybe the Christmas spirit will hit me later. My singing group will be singing at the op shop on Tuesday, maybe I can pick up some gifts there! We’re having a break up parties for the end of the year for singing group and my writing group so I may get into the spirit then. |
| PROMPT November 25th We all have something to be thankful about. In the United States, we celebrate Thanksgiving today. Tell us what you are most thankful for. I’m thankful to live in Australia and in particular Western Australia. We have been blessed compared to the rest of the World. Geography has a lot to do with our “luck” I suppose. We were able to observe what was happening in the Northern Hemisphere long before Covid arrived here. The separation of Western Australia from the East Coast gave us here in the West an even better advantage. We as a State have been able to say who can come here, ensuring whoever does come in has quarantined and been vaccinated. Of course folks here still complain about restrictions and lack of liberty. Antivaxers March in the streets, threaten our government officials and their families. But I’m thankful for everything our State Government has done to keep businesses thriving. Local tourism has never been so busy. Yet people still complain. I have family in the UK where people still die daily and 40,000 people a day still get the virus. |
| PROMPT November 24th In a previous prompt, I asked you to write about your best, or favorite teacher. Tonight write about your darkest teacher. This is the teacher who ruined my life while I was at primary school. She terrified me. Her name was Cynthia Stretton. I thought she was ancient but as much later on she gave birth to twin boys she must have been in her twenties. I used to see her years later with her boys. They looked like her, tall, gangly and miserable. One day sticks in my mind. It was the Queens Coronation so 1953. I was nine years old. We had to write an essay on the ceremony. I had been trying to think of the name of the canopy which was held over the Queen’s anointing. It’s a secret ceremony which no one was allowed to witness. Even the TV cameras had to turn away. Anyway I described the colour of the thing (purple) how it had a pole at each corner etc. But no, this wasn’t enough for Miss Stretton. I had to sit in my chair all day until I remembered the word “canopy!” Another time I wrote “hundredweight” instead of the abbreviation “CWT” Again same deal! She threw my sewing back at me and told me to unpick it, half a dozen times. I never wanted to go to school. Teacher really have no idea what they can do to a child. They can make but they can certainly break. |
| PROMPT November 23rd In your blog today, tell us your favorite joke. It can be long, short, it does not matter. What makes this particular joke your favorite one? C'mon, show us your sense of humour. I had one I was going to tell you before I went to choir today. Then someone told me this joke. I laughed so maybe it’s funny. Soooo, a young lady was sitting on a long haul flight minding her own business when the man next to her interrupted her reading and says: “ Excuse me, I hate to interrupt you but I’ve always found on these long flights that a good discussion helps to pass the time.” The girl looks at him, sighs and asks him what would he’d like to discuss? He says, “Well, I notice you’re wearing a cross, so you’re probably religious. I’m an agnostic, so we could have a debate on the existence of God?” She answers, “can I ask you a question first? He says “sure, ask me anything you like” She says: “okay, well you know I’ve always wondered about this question. It’s about animals that eat grass.” The man nods. The girl says: “Well, goats and sheep eat grass and their poo is like hard round pellets.” The man nods. The girl says: “Cows eat grass and they do huge cow pats?” The man nods. The girl says: “Horses eat grass but their excrements are more like brown torpedoes . Would you agree?” The man nods. The girl asks him “Why, if they all eat grass is their poo all different?” The man says: “ I’m sorry my dear, I have no idea. I can’t answer that.” The girl looks at him and says: “ you expect me to have a deep and meaningful philosophical discussion about the existence of God when you don’t know sh…! “ |
| PROMPT November 22nd You have found that you can do something no one else can do. What is this special talent you have? Would it be considered a 'Super Power'? If you could have chosen this special ability, what would it be? No one has realised yet but I can mind control. Hypnosis on steroids. This is a power I only recently realised I could tap into. A little late really in my life but better late than never I say. It would have been really handy when I had three children under four. The twins would have slept soundly all night, the toddler wouldn’t have had tantrums because I would have been able to snap her out of them just with a click of my fingers. But even though it is a latent power it’s still pretty useful. With just one look at my husband he’ll get up from the sofa and do the dishes and then bring me a cup of tea, or wine depending on what signal I send. Shop assistance always ignored me because I used to be invisible being over certain age. Now they ignore all their other customers and zone in, eager to help in anyway I require. A close relative of ours, whom I mention often in my blogs is always making some sort of mess of her life. Now I’ll be able to snap her out of her bad decision making. Oh no! It’s not working! It was a pretty cool power to have while it lasted.🧐 |
| PROMPT November 21st{/size Tonight/today, listen to this beautiful song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFeLhsZjMRU Where does your mind go when listening to this? What emotions surface as you experience the music? If you've seen the movie (Return To Me), tell us how this affected you. Has it changed you at all? It made me feel nostalgic for friends and family so far away, unseen for so long. It was heartwarming to see the obvious friendship these two old men have. Actually it made me feel sad too. Tony Bennett has aged so much since I last saw any vision of him. His voice, although still good, has lost much of it’s timbre and strength. |
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