Fall 2023

It won't be that long before the clocks go back, the last weekend in this month if I remember it right and no matter where you are in the UK, something is happening all around you that's pretty magical.

Playtime for me involves time out of doors, no not sitting in the garden with the Chromebook, actually going a bit further and without the all pervasive internet, walking, throwing sticks in the woods and fields here.

It's the fall and the more your outside the more you'll see although for many years I loved observing it on the inter-urban commute to work through the bus windows, wherever I work if possible I'd go into parks and gardens not just for peace and quiet but to watch it all change.

Depending on the species, the rate of which the leaves change colour and even fall off varies which used to intrigue me as a child making my way to Church around harvest time where the pavements glistened in the low sun carpeted by leaves.

Sometimes things get a bit nutty as around now, you'll see the squirrels about gathering nuts to bury them and below it appears they've arranged everything that naturally fell making a  beautiful natural collage 

It's great to be out, eyes peeled to everything happening in nature.

Comic heroine time

An odd start to the week here with various things to work through with chores and errands to run but we're getting on for just over six weeks off the seventieth  anniversary of a famous girl who I grew up with.

She came through the letterbox after some other pages devoted to Biffo the Bear and a little ten year rascal called Dennis who back then really was a menace!

She was very much my heroine always getting into trouble, thinking she'd got it sorted but the groan ups always seemed to get the upper hand which as her world like ours back then often featured a parents hand and a slipper was one we could easily relate to.

That classic cartoon was from the late Leo Baxendale drawn in the nineteen fifties when she emerged but twenty years on, things were much the same, trust me!

A bad  school report never got unpunished if they felt it was all about you and your attitudes.

Today's Minnie like the rest of society has moved on, more cheeky mischief making minx who runs rings around the groan ups than paying the price of her actions but she's still fun and a great weekly read.

One Thousand Two Hundred and One trips around the sun

Here at Joanne's Dorm we're marking an anniversary today.

You see it is our 1,201st post on the blog that was began before Tumblr was born and Instagram was thought of so this was my main platform to express myself as a person on rather than just sharing opinions around odd topics on forums.

It's a slice of life blog of a middle/little as lived and experienced so all life from adventures and interests about that life are to be found which I feel is it's strength as when you're like me you're always regressed to a point, usually requiring some oversight and so that life is in its context rather than something you might just role play at.

This blog always went into other things that run across me and this crazy life such as uniforms, identities and the swish of discipline which some of us sometimes need given we're not so reliable at being self disciplined.

One thing I have been doing for this anniversary has been tidying up some entries where say images were small being made on a ancient desktop computer and a very slow unreliable internet connection where it was type, assemble and publish before the connection went.

Today thank goodness the internet is faster and much more reliable and like many it's moved on from bulletin boards and yahoo groups to buying things online as  much as some things such as clothing I do prefer to see, handle and even try on.

One thing I have being more of is exercise and today's picture was taken recently while out doing just that in its vivid colours which the recent changes in blog layout now allow me to take full advantage of.

Happy 1,201st Anniversary!

Leather?

I once tried leather skirts but I never quite got one with them however this pleated one which doesn't look to thick or shiny, might be the sort I'd feel okay wearing although with my walking we can forget about anything outside of flat footwear.

I've never done anything open toe as I tend to catch me feet on things so it wouldn't be a good idea although I like totally get why many do in the spring and summer.

Things on my mind

The hot stuff has thankfully started to depart from here as it wasn't really helping with my problems with tickly cough stuff stuck  down my throat needing to have windows wide open but while I was going to post one thing, events change topics.

Running a website isn't for the faint hearted, especially when you realize to be really free to post around certain topics such as being adult littles you may need to host and maintain it yourself.

Recently it has come to light a person who runs a site I have an account is has a life threatening condition although it is treatable and is undergoing treatment.

Now one things we know is sometimes when a site is owned by one person arrangements are not always in place to "gift" it on to another which doesn't just mean things like servers but domain names which typically have to be renewed or otherwise they revert to whoever you got that from.

That kind of thing is why over the last few years we've lost a few sites  but rest assured that site isn't for going and touch wood, they will recover from it.

It's a good idea to hold on to the idea of thinking about and caring for those that matter to us.

Cleaning time

Funny old month isn't it?

As schools reopen for Autumn term after the wash out that was August, we actually start to get the sort of sunshine and warm temperatures we were hoping for with layers coming off and windows open while you're cooking.

There's a marathon catch up washing session planned across today following from yesterday with various towels and t shirts to go in the machine and then most likely get pegged out on the washing line to try to save using the drier.

It soon builds up which is why I'm dealing with it now.

Thoughts while on the mend

Hacked off, in a different way than perhaps you anticipated, the one word to describe how I've been feeling these last ten days or so been is feeling really rather ill with an infection that doesn't feel like leaving anytime soon.

Thus mind is more on things to keep away for more negative, depressive thoughts so I've got the radio one and am reading things like my Beano comic.

Another way is project in your mind different versions of you and perhaps assess just what you may feel about them as its so easy to get in a presentation rut.