A photograph of the pet shop window.. squeezy toys for dogs with Trump as the figure!
When I was 15 a girl in my class was involved in a car accident. She wasn't killed, but she did have a serious head injury, that meant she had to have major brain surgery. When she was allowed home, two of us went to visit her.. she was very pale and she had lost the vision in one eye.
We didn't know what to say to her, so we read Keats' poems with her and this from the Bible, because we thought it was beautiful language. We did have such a romantic view of life.. Something happened yesterday and these words came to me and I remembered Judy. She didn't come back to school that summer and her grave is in Newton Church grave yard.
I go there sometimes with a flower, to remember that girl who read Keats' poems with Susan and I..
Chrisxx
With all the news of Artemis 2, it reminded me of our excitement to see the International Space Station when it came over our bungalow three years ago. It literarily crossed over us going West to East at the exact time that was forecast, 6:37pm!
These are the Artemis 2 Astronauts
It obits the earth approx 16 times a day!! WOW! An obit takes 90 minutes at the speed of 17,500 mph. There are 6 or 7 people in it at a time staying approx 3 to 6 months, altho one astronaut stayed for 12 months!!
What a wonderful world we live in and how amazing too.
Are you as amazed as I am?
Chrisxx
Recently I read an article on what older people are advised to do.. you don't have to, but it seems you'd be healthier and happier if you did these things.
Walk every day. ... I try to.
Go out at least three times and a week and socialize. ... not three times every week, but we do like to get out and about.
Tidy up your living area before bed. Ha ha, we always have books around, but the cushions are tidy.
Always leave the kitchen clean after cooking.. we do this together, but there are occasions when we're tired and things are left till the morning.
Clean basin and toilet every day. This is done every other morning by me.. Dh cleans the shower twice a week.
Keep up to date with paper work. We have lidded boxes into which we pop letters and sort them all out regularly.
Make your bed every day.. Ours is done after we've showered and had breakfast, leaving it open to air. Although sometimes. when we're in a hurry to get out for an early appointment, we rush off and forget.
All seem feasible and things that most people do without thinking, however as you age some activities are difficult and they take longer than they did, when you were younger and able. Also you don't always want to walk, rain puts me right off going out, and sometimes I don't feel like being sociable. I've met people with whom, I don't want to socialize!
I personally don't mind a bit of clutter, this is our home, not a show house! And when someone once remarked to me about not doing your dishes at night, 'what if something happened to you and the kitchen was a mess,' she said. I replied that people would think.. 'poor love, she can't have felt well, she hasn't done last nights dishes!' And when we've got home and found the bed with the duvet opened back for the bed to air, I've had a lie on it and rested for a minute or two!
So what do you think, everything spic and span or a 'living home,' comfortable for you?
Oh dear, what is the best way to live, I wonder?
Chrisxx
I wonder what you would have done if this had happened to you?
I had a phone call from a friend on Saturday and we had the usual preamble of .......'how are you, how's the family, have you any holiday plans, etc' And then she started to talk about her daughter's teaching job. I nearly stopped her because I know someone, who is teaching at the same school. They've just had the dreaded OFSTED.. and it didn't go well.
I listened quietly while she told me how well her daughter had done. I knew she wasn't speaking the truth because no one in the school had an excellent report.
I should have made some excuse, like someone at the door or something, to end the phone call, but I didn't.
She back tracked a few times, and I felt very awkward, as the lies grew, to cover what she had said originally.
I did manage to say Goodbye, but I felt so bad and now I don't think our friendship will weather this and I'm sad.
What is it that we can't accept that sometimes, we just don't make the grade. I worked through three OFSTEDS, two had good reports and one not so good, in fact the school report was pretty awful.. all three were stressful to the extent that I bought new clothes so I wouldn't have to worry what to wear. But I survived and carried on teaching for years after that.
What would you have done?
Chrisxx
For people who don't live in UK, Ofsteds are whole school inspections, usually over three days.
'Allow it to soak in salt water for an hour, then peel off the outer coating, cleaning off any bits. Put in milk over heat and cook for 15 minutes, no more. Then pour milk into a roux and mix thoroughly. Babies love this and eat this being unaware what it is.'
This was the instructions given to a young mum, trying to get her baby onto solids by her own mother! And is in the book I'm reading by Patrick Gale!
I wasn't given brains to eat as a child but tripe and onions arrived once, that I do remember and I hated it.
I don't think i ever gave my own children offal to eat but I do love pigs liver and we have it as an occasional meal. liver and bacon and onions is a favourite meal.
My little dog Mari loved liver too and I often cooked it for her. On one occasion it was gently cooking, when my Ex arrived home and remarked, 'That smells nice,'
'Its for the dog,' I replied and nothing more was said!
These days you don't often see it in shops. I wonder with the increasing rise in the cost of living and food costs rising, will we see more offal to buy, what do you think and would you buy and eat it?
Chrisxx
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