Learning to Blog--a new 'marathon' challenge

I think it's time to end this topic. Au revoir

I've got to get off of here. I'm going dotty!!!

Oh God! I thought we were back to jenricks!!!

Not so much of the 'ex' Madam!

Not surprised he's ex if his fiance went on nagging him about wedding dresses as often as RookBrat.

If ever I need another wedding dress (unlikely), that is one firm I shall avoid.

'Ask your ex boyfriend....'??

And I thought I'd missed something interesting!

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Finished Project 1 just before midnight last night for my blog
www. autumnglint.wordpress.com

My intention is to start Project 2: A View of Viet Nam next week.

Have a good weekend

Although there are storm clouds in the east, the sun is still shining

Maybe I'll make a Zen blog...

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Sounds like you've got your life sorted j05--and I guess Oxfam will be grateful for the rug kit

I will give my uncompleted rug kit to Oxfam. Someone else can finish it.

I am happy to drift along contentedly at the moment, and sod the lot of it.

Sounds as if you're definitely on the right lines Oldgreymare! Have you read Lessons from my Life No 1 on www.autumnglint.wordpress.com ?

The thing I find good about this stage of my life is that I have time to spot the recurring patterns and reactions over time. Some of them are reassuring--other bits are scary, and some reactions make me cringe.

Whether I manage to learn from them is another matter, but I thought that if I start identifying them, I may be able to work on the negative aspects. It does not always work, but at least the awareness and intention is there!

Please leave a comment on my blog and let me know your ideas.

Today I've got to get the blanket finished, I guess blogs should not get boring!

GrandmaMiney 7th year post-retirement and counting!

Actually, looking back, I suppose can tick a few items off the list not least tracing my Italian Grandfather (Learning a bit of Italian in order to visit his birthplace and having a 'Who do you think you are' moment while leafing thro' a large tome containing family records for the village.)

I think my periods of inactivity outnumber my active periods and I want to redress the balance.

I usually try to set deadlines and feel a real sense of achievement when they have been met and a real sense of failure when they are not.
I suppose the answer is to set realistic targets.

I bought and read 'Bring out the Bodies' as soon as it was published (I am trying to collect all Booker winners in hardback to pass on to GC! altho' I didn't know it was a winner at the time.) and thoroughly enjoyed it.... looking forward to the next and final book.

That's another thing to add to my list..... update my profile!!!!!

Go on Oldgreymare when you've had a year of post-retirement 'rest' it might be the time to start a ROML list (!) I think it was when I was reading a book about Sissinghurst/Vita Sackvill-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, that it mentioned he had a ROML border--an herbaceous border that was going to be the Rest of his Life's Work.
(I sneaked a peek at your biog and see you've read Wolf Hall so you might need to read Bring up the Bodies before you start blogging. I thought it was even better than Wolf Hall )

This is such a great time: new things to learn, but also so many things to look back on; enjoy the good memories and learn from the not-so-good.
Also I think it's interesting to see how apparently insignificant things actually enabled something unforseen to develop later.
Such a great harvest time for us...whilst planting seeds for the next generations. Don't you think?
I seem to have been recalling WWII memories for my 8 yr old grandson to recount at school. This is the topic for his class, this term. I feel a future Blog in the pipeline.

Hasn't it also been said that on your deathbed (Pace, all those who think I'm always banging on about old age and death) it's the things you haven't done that you regret--not the things you have. I just don't want to find myself getting there and asking St Peter to wait a mo, as I've haven't finished my to-do list.

Hence www.autumnglint.wordpress.com now.

Sleep tight all you lovely gransnetters of Ovaltine (or camomile and spiced apple, my favourite bedtime tipple at the moment)

(Another strip of the blanket sewn tonight--I'll post again tomorrow)

I think I need to take myself in hand and DO something!
Great to read the Blogs of Grans who have, inspirational too.
Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of my life.... now where have I heard that before?
Which unfinished item shall I tackle first?
I think I'll go and make a nice and write a list..... night night

Good point Grandmaminey - though I don't think it always matters. It would if, say, the research was promoting cranberry juice as the cure for all ills. And funded by cranberry producers co-op...

JessM
Like your blog--very professional.
When discussing research, please could you also take a look at who funds the research (i.e. the research that gets published)?

It is an area that has intrigued me for years, but not many places will risk looking at this angle.

Thank you all for visiting www.autumnglint.wordpress.com
I haven't posted today (yet) or yesterday, I'm too busy trying to meet my targets! I sewed a strip yesterday, and I'm about to start on today's strip.

Fingers crossed it will be finished this week...then I can move on to Viet Nam, (my Project 2)

j05 if you put the blanket away for another 10 years it's just possible something will give you the urge to finish it. It's taken me nearly 20! So long in fact that the colours are almost 'in' again

Re: the point about Dresden--when I visited Coventry and took that pic, I read that, soon after WWII, as part of the Reconciliation process a group of young people from Coventry went to Dresden to help re-build a hospital.

Re: Vitamin C, I've taken it every winter for years, and get hardly any colds. I was told by a biochemist about 10 years ago that its effect is greater if you take it with zinc. So I do!

jess "There is, they conclude, a small reduction in the severity and duration of colds in those taking regular supplements." That would do for me!