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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: Were you disappointed or happy with the month of January 2024? Well as it’s summer here in Western Australia I generally despise January. It’s super hot(44 degrees centigrade today) It’s school vacation also. So therefore the shopping centres are filled with kids running amok. I love kids but they get away with things my children didn’t. Although I did see a young dad the other day, he was shopping for groceries with four children aging from 6 to 11 who were so polite and sweet and I told them they were a lovely family. They were still being kids but they were not obnoxious as so many are. I sound like a grumpy old woman but I’m really not. Just hot! The climate has cause havoc to all over Australia. There have been horrendous floods, our son in Far North Queensland has suffered terrible stock losses on his cattle station. So roll on Autumn, (March). Praying for better weather. |
| 2024 Prompt: “Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.” – Nelson Mandela Use this quote to inspire your blog entry. Snow's BCOF Signature [#1971580] Prosperous Snow, Blogger of the Week LeaderProsperous Snow, I love the quote and the opportunity to use it as a prompt. As a much younger person I was incredibly shy and self conscious. I never did anything which I thought would draw attention my way. Even as a very young bride, I really knew nothing of life except how to look after someone as I’d done that most of my life. My mother always seemed to be sick with something or other and when I was sixteen she almost died from a coronary thrombosis. As the only girl I was expected to do all the household stuff and cooking for the family. So when I left home to marry at twenty one having only one man to care for was easy. John was a very lucky man😂 and still is! When we left England with a three year old in tow to come to Australia, leaving everything familiar behind I grew in confidence. I was twenty eight then. I’d say that was when I knew I had to be brave. Two more children later I became the person I am today. Independent, kind, loyal, but assertive. I try to be honest in my dealings with people and only tell white lies, usually to avoid hurting others feelings, But I’ll fight tooth and nail for the ones I love. And yes, I actually used to dance like no ones watching but my dancing days are gone. Although I still behave like a kid, sometimes and never lost my sense of humour, the thing that makes me, well, me. |
| Day 3398: January 30, 2024 Prompt: Use these words in your blog entry: buckwheat, stockings, effacement, lurker, precipitation, feather, and litter.  This is my first entry for Blogging Circle of Friends and as I look at the prompt I realise I am faced with quite a task. It would be a case of self-effacement to say this is not possible but as I’m I’m always up for a challenge so here goes. I’ll start with litterOne of my most disliked things in the world. Each day my husband and I take our best friend, Lucy the Weimaraner, for her walks and each and every time we pick up food and drink containers. Having a McDonalds across the park from us doesn’t help of course. Why can’t people take their rubbish home or put it in the bin? On the same walks I often find a treasure. A beautiful red and black feather from our native Carnaby Cockatoos. These fantastic birds are endangered because of the way we treat the earth. We chop down their habitat, pollute the rivers and litter our environment. The weather here in Western Australia is forecast to be extra hot this week with temperatures up to 44 degrees centigrade. There’ll be no precipitationand the wearing of stockings will not be encouraged. Oh, look, there’s Lucy being a lurker her head is around my door watching me. She’s probably wondering why she isn’t included in the chocolate biscuits I’m having with my coffee. Although I know she’s not supposed to eat what we eat, but she looks so hungry 😂 This morning she had just a tiny piece of my buckwheat pancakes with a touch of maple syrup. Anyway it’s been nice to join the circle of friends and I hope everyone has a great day. |
| Names "It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame." Henry David Thoreau, Walking Why do you think we are given names at birth? Do you know what your name means and do you live up to it? What about the people you know and their relationships to their names? I was having this discussion earlier today with my granddaughter about baby names. It’s such a responsibility isn’t it? Bestowing a name that child will either love or hate for the rest of its life. I live in Australia and Australians are renowned for shortening names. My granddaughter’s little girl is named Evelyn. She gets called Evie, Eve, Mini, and even her real name, sometimes. There is a new little one on the way. She is going to be named, Ava, because no one can shorten that. What we’re likely to do is lengthen it and call her Avocado! My name, Susan, is boring. I’m usually called Sue unless I’m in trouble. Then it’s Susan. I was nearly a Penny, which I would have hated so it was the best of two evils, I suppose. I’m pleased with the names I called my children and they all like their names. Sarah, Benjamin and Emma. It wasn’t until it was pointed out to me they are all biblical names, I noticed. I’m not religious, but years of bible stories at school must have instilled the names into me. As for second names. None of us have one. Not my husband nor myself and the children. I wish someone could explain the concept of a second Christian name and the purpose. Some even have every relative’s name that ever existed given to them. Surely it’s to appease everyone whose name wasn’t used to call the new child. |
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