A blog for heart matters and natters.
Does anyone buy traditional advent calendars?
Whilst the modern trend is for chocolate filled advent calendars and latterly all sorts of items, there is much to said about a beautifully illustrated advent calendar.
The build-up is far more real and reminds us of Christmas in its best meaning.
We used to have several banks in our town and gradually they have closed one by one. Now we only have... one.
It is odd as the last two that closed were always busy.
Not everyone banks online or ever wants to.
The shops are beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Does anyone else visit shops We do and find it more depressing each year that fewer shops and certainly independent shops exist.
Amazon is sheer crap and anyone who blindly uses it thinking they are getting a cheap deal is wrong. Often the prices are more than in a local shop.
It is exciting watching our Grandson learning to read. Being able to translate black squiggles into words must be amazing.
Especially as he has jumped two levels in a a week.
I remember the first book I read instead of a comic - it was an Enid Blyton compendium. Fantastic little stories.
Accidentally my mobile phone dropped out of my pocket on the bus.
Unfortunately the bus was on its way to the cesspit that is Bristol. So it was stolen. Some months ago someone had dropped their phone on a bus and I handed it to the driver. It is the way of the world that is a rarity nowadays. There is so much scum around these days.
It is a real pain having to get a new phone and replace all the programs and passwords.
I went with my daughter to buy he son a cycle helmet. These didn't exist as far as I know when I was young.
When we were ten years old, some friends and I cycled about forty miles to the nearest city and camped there overnight before cycling back the following day. Yes there were fewer cars on the roads but none of us wore helmets.
More innocent times.
Does anyone swim regularly? Obviously it helps if you live close to a swimming pool but it is great exercise which works all the muscles with no impact.And it is a true year round activity.
