Whee!

This was my life, a life I loved as much as disliked the difficulties and prejudice of I endured in my youth.
 To me the park was this magical place, a place that had things but you added to that from what was within you, your imagination, and boy did I have an imagination!
 We created and played games there carefully observing the rules and for the most part at least always looked out in case someone felt uncomfortable in the game we were playing.
If I was feeling a bit low, then another would swing me having talked me on to getting on that swing and it wasn't too long before my face was dressed with a smile as I just loved that rocking back and forth motion. To be honest I'd just love to be swung right now if the truth be known.
There was a slide probably made from aluminum or steel that you had to climb several steps to place yourself with your bottom on the edge and start that gushing great sliding motion down to the very end. Whee! I just loved it!!!

The needs of Jo

Looking at my other needs, not those that seem to predominate much of this particular blog rather than the other but to whom in reality they really are connected at the core like bothy my big and little sides there are few that I wish to talk about.

 One is that although I like books I struggle with my reading which is very much at a level at or below a ten year olds when it comes to making sense of the twists and turns of plots in fiction or the progression of ideas in more factual books like text or workbooks which means much of what is written for adult readers is no use to me and even some 12 plus teen fiction is too.
What I'd like is someone with more the manner and authority of  a teacher to try to help me get more from reading, understanding more of what I can read and able to share it with people as the child that in so many ways I remain.


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Keep fit - Past and present

As a child like most we had PE (Physical Exercise) which was never the most popular thing on the subject list. Most of time it would involve things such as doing press ups and generally strengthening our muscles and improving the range of movements we could do using our joints

Sometimes I just miss that PE master or Miss pushing me on!

This said I do exercise a bit even now having back problems and issues with posture generally to help my condition

Getting back into the swing of outdoor exercise such as walking and bit of basic mat PE style exercise indoors like press ups to keep my muscles working something like that with my disabilities it's very good idea to do - and we have rain for much of the week!

So guess what it does? yes, buckets down. Grrr!

Never mind I have a new pair of exercise shorts to wear ready for when the downpours and strong winds stop.

Lessons

The whole notion of school based age play with me role playing a Juniorish school girl is a big part of me and something having oscillated over isn't something I'd deny anymore although outside of a few things around uniform, I haven't done much with it.
Although this is a Victorian classroom, chunks of this are similar to my first school such as the chalkboard, globe abacus and cane which we were most familiar with.
The sort of scene, girl breaches school rule like not doing homework, gets punished and has to sit at the desk in detention doing lines is part of that although the actual business of doing some real study  age-play age studying is the other equal part.
I wouldn't be interested in an age-play school role play that was 75% corporal punishment and the rest just socializing as for one thing it lacks authenticity for me and secondly I do actual want to learn things.

If only...

Minimalism it has to be said was not really something I was brought up with with everything we ever owned, shoe-horned in, a skill that no doubt aided my ability to really pack a suitcase right to the brim with stuff. Indeed it was something of a standing joke between Dad and Guesthouse owners upon arrival  whenever we went on vacations that we had  more stuff for four days away than many had for ten or more overseas.

Although I never had a word for it even in those days of film cameras, I used to attempt to take pictures of myself, trying on various outfits in the room sometimes involving putting the camera on a tripod looking toward a wall or chair or just hnad holding it in front of the wardrobe mirror.

Sometimes I wish back then we'd of had a smartphone so could of taken pictures like this easily or gotten Mom to taken them for me.

That's cos I like to document my life in time.

The Adventurous Four

I don't know about you but adventure stories have always had an appeal and two wonderful books in the series The Adventurous Four set off the Scottish West coast where four children with the oldest Andy aged 14 who's acquired already a good knowledge of the sea, islands and sealife is  helping his Dad,  encounter Nazi's thieves and gunrunners.
The series is very much set in Wartime arguably more so than any other of Enid Blyton's work and sees them taken prisoner by the Nazi's resolving to show them what Scots are made of.

These are my copies in the Deans Rewards series from 1973 where as with a few other series such as the Famous Five, the skirts and shorts worn by the children in the original  covers are replaced with Jeans although we all know children during the War never had Jeans!

Soccer's World Cup 2010

Well the World Cup is over for England as this girl clearly shows blowing the final note!