Have a (too?) busy week

Why busy?  Well, mostly because I did about 7 ¾ extra hours for the Trussell Trust in one week.  Tesco had arranged a collection for the foodbanks for Friday, Saturday and Sunday and it was also the week that all the Christmas boxes had to be checked so they could go in the truck for Bulgaria…

Go to an orchestral concert

My friend’s husband – well, I suppose he has become a friend too – plays in the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra and they were giving a concert, so I went along, partly to keep my friend company and partly because it is ages since I have been to a concert.  They were playing “Vocalise” by Rachmaninov,…

Learning the “Community Messiah”

I think Handel’s Messiah is great and is something that I have enjoyed listening to – or part of it, anyway.  And I don’t listen to that much music.  I have never even considered that I could sing it (apart from joining in, badly, probably wrongly, with any part, when playing it at home) as…

Have a bad week…..

Last week generally was not very good…..  Well, Monday was OK, I think – just normal! Tuesday, choir went really badly.  I couldn’t pick up or do anything right.  It was only afterwards that I realised that the altos had overlapped the second sopranos and I had one of the loudest of those behind me…

Reading my Father’s letters from World War II (The Middle East)

My father was posted to the Middle East (and East Africa) during the war and wrote to his mother as regularly as he could – usually once a week.  His mother kept all the letters and they must have been passed back to him.  We found them when we were clearing out my mother’s house…

No longer redundant!

I have got my “job” back at the Trussell Trust!  It is not quite the same, as the paid receptionist is still there, but I am doing the reception to give her time to really get on with the administration work that she has to do.   I go in later and will also leave…

Butterfly

A butterfly took up residence on my bedroom floor, so I  had to step over it and hoover round it! It first appeared on the curtains in my study.  No idea where it came from or how it got in.  The next day it appeared on my bedroom windowsill sunning itself, but by the evening…

Knitting

Having sorted out a structure of things to do each week there is still lots of time left to fill.  One of the things I have been doing is knitting.  I mostly do this when listening to the radio – unless I have some ironing to do, which is also best done when listening to…

Hospital appointments

These always seem to arranged for the most inconvenient day and time and although the letter says you can phone and change it, my experience is that you can phone, but the changing it is not possible…… One has to leave plenty of time before the appointment to allow for traffic hold-ups and for finding…

Caring for elderly relatives

You don’t have to be retired to do this!  (I wasn’t.) I was reminded of this on our reunion weekend on hearing that several people had parents who had died during the year.  This often meant supporting the remaining parent – some of whom were doing (surprisingly?) well. There are as many different ways to…