Christmas, review and going forward post

Surprisingly we did have presents here but in a year messed up with issues around being unwell to travel to spend days with friends, issues around other aspects of this life such as people not respecting personal presentation style influenced by modern day trends and poor communications there were some highlights.

Doing things in the "real world" to raise funds for young peoples organizations, being part of a community effort to establish place to hold Remembrance Day parades without having to go miles kind of reinforce the fact that being either little or not being opposed to having a glowing bum doesn't mean you drop out of life alltogether.

You just keep bits that don't play along so well apart.

I enjoyed some time with friends for Halloween although getting there with the train strikes here was touch and go.

I had some new stuff such as really high quality pinafores one of which I did take with me and was much appreciated having had it shortened as didn't like below the knee dresses and skirts.

I have a more juvenile shorter side that prefers them just above the knee.

I had the latest installment in the New yearbook series on record for christmas, a duran duran live album from 1982 and this years Beano annual. Bring back Jinty I say!

Because as hinted at I'm having recurring long covid based problems, I won't be updating this blog much as I'd like as some the material in all its oww-ness just won't happen if I'm bed bound as it were unless of course some one was to come with a short cane to add go faster strips to my bum!

It's not being deleted but is likely to have on a semi regular basis some expanded posts with bits that might not fly on their originals here.

Happy new year!

 

Christmas pause edition

Just a few more days to go before Christmas not being helped by feeling rather off currently, I'm slowly getting there.

Had I got better paws and  more co-ordination I'd sooner be a more domestically centred sort enjoying knitting, sowing making things sort as I find routines very helpful when it comes to feeling at ease  with things, just having things to get on with and a clear cut role.

Anyway as I've been trying to get on top of things here here's a little something for everyone before things are paused for Christmas  as it's all hands to the pump here.

Regards Jo.

To write or not to write

 

I'm supposed to be doing something with a couple of Christmas Cards but I've twisted my knee and it's really painful so I've little inclination to deal with that today but first thing tomorrow might be possible I guess.

Tree is up and we have seen Mr S Claus on his travels on the sleigh this weekend, bring much delight to all young and old as we waved back at him and with any luck we might get a nice present for being...well nice.

Probably beats being given something for people to administer a spot of correction with I guess.

Things will pause next week as things will be busy, rotten knee or not making Xmas happen.

Advent again

 It's that month again so lasting just longer than Prime Ministers these days we start the BIG COUNTDOWN.

It's entirely normal here for there to be an Advent Calendar as that's what I grew up with and not much has changed with me anyway so there won't be any groan up versions.

This time around Disney is involved and why not?

How many Disney movies have you seen at the movie theatre or on the small screen, read the novelizations of  and coloured in the colouring books reasonably neatly?

Thought so. Here we have one advent calendar that has lots of mini story books included  you can read or better still, get some one to read them to you.

 

We should be bringing down the christmas tree for its annual decoration today together with the nativity scene that we've had for over twenty-five years on its base.

Things are starting to arrive although trying to organize Xmas with poorly grump you need to run errands for and keep an eye on.

I am working on the Christmas blogging schedule so I get a rest here and on the Tumblr, final post should be December 19th according to my main notes and resumption  being around the 26th.

I'm unsure if we'll do the blog on Xmas day thing this year with it being a Sunday and things here a bit up in the air.

Anyway, see you next week!

Advent edition

Well, it's a brand new Month tomorrow which by coincidence  also marks the start of the great countdown otherwise known as Advent which from childhood always was a magical thing aided by having a calendar.

 
Way back then, they were card based  with you pulling back a flap to uncover various things and at least in our house, nominally religious in character.

 This is a very nomable which is currently atop of a short floor standing bookcase facing the front room window cos I don't care anymore. 

 
A middle lives in this house and does stuff like this apart from colouring her Frozen colouring in most days!

 
Just open a door each day, eat some chocolate and see the days before Christmas go before your very eyes.

Here I'm always back in time, probably cos I never really went forward.

 

That's how I see me in my head in a lot of respects and anyone expecting much else is likely to have a very very long wait.

Wet ramblings

Greetings from Kitty Towers.

It's a bit of a damp weekend so I wasn't out Saturday although The Grump was which was a relief about the earache following getting a letter to say gas was going up three times and I really don't need constant background noise as much as obviously it is a concern especially for those less well off compared with ourselves.

It's hardly surprising then  that you're back to reading books of the sort that not only written for an audience that I share the same reading age with but the same sorts of topics that such stories centre upon.

It may sound odd but I feel so much more at home sat on a floor reading or playing with groan ups around than the whole older child in chair discussing more grown up topics with them, not least with the craziness of the adult political landscape and issues galore with the FIFA World Cup in Qatar when it comes to soccer.

 

There's always music to be played here, just don't ask how many records or compact discs they're are, a good many hundred is the short answer but that was what I was doing as a kid back home anyway.

That arrived yesterday late morning, a "audiophile" lp pressing in its slip case of Michael Jackson's Thriller album that's celebrating its fortieth birthday which I'd have to say sounds better than my original copy with really quiet surfaces brought very much in the day.

Expensive, hell yes, but if you loved the music then this is the best it gets on the original vinyl and it'll last you a lifetime if you care for it properly.

Then on Sunday there was the last two chapters of Castle Hangnail! by Ursula Vernon in story time which saves reading it off the page apart from being more like the story times we had at school then.

Ciao!

A post of updates

 There we go another Wednesday and another post here.

I'm a bit better than I was people and thanks for the comment left last week, being able to be about a bit more if not fully recovered which did mean I got outdoors to hear the Last Post on Armistice Day from the local Cenotaph being played.

I have walked a short distance this week, going slowly and avoiding jerky actions.

I did have some trouble with an international order whose arrival here got messed up by Hermes as in not arrived but did get my not inconsiderable money back from Ebay after putting a complaint in.

At the site where various stories are read in real time we almost but not quite finished Camp Hangnail by Ursula Vernon with just the last chapter to finish off which has been quite a gripping story about witches, minions, and one fantastic castle.

I struggled with Dragonheart  by the same author probably due to my poor for age reading comprehension and poor short term memory that makes holding on lots of details in a passage hard going.

That seemed to me me written for a Sci-Fi geek.

See you all next week!