Travelling On

starnac

I love a review post too!

apple_muncher

I love other people's review posts. I'm rubbish at doing my own!!!

themadvix

apple_muncher said:

I love other people's review posts. I'm rubbish at doing my own!!!

This is me too, I feel I fail on assessing progress!

Karmacat

This is not it, but I'm going to have to do it, aren't I!  Been talking to bruv, late lunch, once my lunch has subsided I'm off to the garden.  Thank heavens for the yellow ball staying up in the sky for longer!  I don't feel like I've even started yet!

apple_muncher

It's blimmin' cold out there - hope you were well wrapped up!

Karmacat

Wrapped up well enough, thanks!  Mad Young Cat was hiding in the garden and came out to play after a few minutes - I really needed to keep moving to stay warm enough, so I couldn't be doing with holding the garden fork still while he walked around it sniffing  he even let me pick him up and move him (purring all the while! how can I deal with that except by petting him!) and he came straight back.  

Still, many summer snowdrops got their marching orders, as well as couch grass and sedge plants.  Woo hoo, I know how to party ... 

Review tomorrow!  Considering how late I started, not a bad day at all  

Karmacat

starnac said:

I love a review post too!

Well, I've been thinking about it    and the thing is, I have lots and lots of jobs to do, in every room, in every piece of the garden, for every piece of electronic equipment, and for quite a bit of my finances.  And I started to review on that level, and I just went, flump.  Flumpety flumpety flump.

That's not the issue, I've realised - jobs will always be coming out of my ears, but what about pleasure?  And what about energy levels?  And what about the pandemic getting in the way of personal meetups?  And hating using the phone to chat?  That stuff is what I actually need to review.

So, local meetups.  Not the Level 1 Healthy Walk - I'll try Level 2 Healthy Walk, longer, less frequent, but it clashes with the U3A Space meetup, next Tuesday, which is also irregular, but this month, they're on the same day.  I like the Space Group, even though its just one other person  it makes me happy.  Space launches are almost entirely problematic in environmental terms, but I'm not going to deny the happiness I feel when I talk about that with another enthusiast.  Both these things are pretty well completely covid-safe.

Taking these steps during a time of record covid infections is difficult, because of the possibility of getting long covid, after my 10 years or so of suffering with chronic fatigue syndrome.  And going out and about more, in a time of record infections, is going to expose me, but I have to do something.

This is what I've currently got booked up:  
1. U3A Space Group, every 4 - 6 weeks.  Fun!
2. My niece is getting a cat!  I'm the first visitor allowed in after my sister.  Just had a phone call from niece about the lovely moggy.  Loving it.
3. Might see brother when he comes down to London to see his middle son, who lives south of the river.  Fantastic humour and lovely kiddiewinkles.
4. A few days away to Norfolk rellies, for the birthday of one of our cousins.  Pleasant extended family connections!
5. AirBNB holibob in Kent with my sister.  We haven't booked yet, but we're easy about where, and we don't mind avoiding the more populous places.
6. Cruise to Iceland and Greenland is racing up the charts: it's a horrendous amount of money, but everything's horrendous, in all sorts of ways.  The sheer pleasure of beautiful travel.
7. In the meantime, I'm actually thinking of getting on a train, for the 20 minute journey to the seaside.  If that works on my own, I'll try to meet up with my old work buddy there.

Basically, the substance of my review is this:  I want to get out more!  At the very least, I need good things to look forward to, of course I do!  That's it - bookcases, net curtains, killing summer snowdrops, painting fences, decluttering, baking, it's all important and even enjoyable in it's own way, but that's just the day by day focus, real life also contains connecting with the people and the planet.

I *will* do a more conventional review later, because I've actually achieved quite a lot at that level, but right now, I need to go attack some summer snowdrops.  And some sedge.  And possibly some mahonia branches growing parallel to the ground at a height of less than three feet  

Cheery_Daff

That's a lovely review!! 😊😊😊😊 Love the idea of focusing on cheerful things that will bring you joy. What a positive and fun thing 😊😊😊

Karmacat

Aw, thank you Cheery!  That's good to hear  

Staffordia

Good for you recognising that you need to do fun things and connect with your surroundings. I know that you have health concerns but mental health is so important as well. You, well all of us really, have to balance physical and mental wellbeing.