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Enjoyed reading your blog, Carol, a lovely photograph. Such a productive group no wonder you felt enegized. I've been thinking of rejoining the local art group but the restrictions we still have in Wales is making me very wary of mixing with others. I'm not yet convinced we are being told the whole truth about this virus or any other that will come along.
Lovely, Lizy. Reminds me of when my daughter rewrote the Christmas story when at Primary School. Somewhat shocked staff by using key political figures of the day for the chief characters.
On my old blog when I reviewed my year, I decided what would be the next year's aim. I've been thinking about it for some weeks now, so have a basic plan ready for the first working week of the New Year.
Wilts, the good news is that the Fashion Museum's buy-a-bag fundraiser made their target and 1400 items are bagged ready for the big move.
Wilts, The Fashion Museum are intending to do a lot of online stuff while they're closed, which will be good, but it's going to be a couple of years before they're in their new location (wherever that may be) and worth the cost of a trip all that way.
Lizy, I've got too much to do between now and April. Bath is lovely, but I wouldn't want to travel all that way until at least May.
I have a couple of things to be getting on with this morning, but I gave myself a warm-up with a post about my mis-spent youth playing pinball. The plan is to transfer all of my childhood/teenage posts to a new, dedicated nostalgia blog, but I'm unsure as to the best platform.
If the worst you got up to was side-stepping on a pinball machine, it wasn't mush of a mis-spent youth!
I think as youths go, few were as mis-spent as mine. After passing my eleven-plus and filling my parents with hope, I proceeded to waste my education, becoming a persistent truant. While my classmates were tackling classical studies and chemistry, thirteen-year-old Joseph was three miles from school under arrest for shoplifting. The school became fed up with my absences, so I was kicked out at 16 and sent to a children's home, from which I absconded three times, and was once captured by police on the roof of a derelict cinema. I was badly beaten by staff at the home, and I left - without qualifications - to undertake the most menial and low-paid jobs. I almost killed myself guzzling sherry aged 17, and I started drinking heavily at that time. I was arrested and fined for various public order offences (and I received a beating from the police). If I apply for a job that requires a DBS check, my prospective employer will see two counts of receiving, and one of criminal damage - but nothing post-1980. This is merely the edited highlights - there was an awful lot more went on, and there are some things I'm sworn to secrecy over.
I wish it hadn't been that way, but we are where we are. I hasten to add that I've been a model citizen all my adult life. I think it's fair to say though that I did have a mis-spent youth
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I've been thinking of rejoining the local art group but the restrictions we still have in Wales is making me very wary of mixing with others. I'm not yet convinced we are being told the whole truth about this virus or any other that will come along.
Take care, everyone.
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Love the advent you've done this year Lizy.
I've been making some decisions this week in advance of the New Year.
https://serena-lake.co.uk/2021/12/29/plans-for-2022/
I've wound up the mini-series with a post-Christmas 100 worder.
https://lizy-writes.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-partys-over.html
You are so organized Carol. Sorry you won't be able to visit the exhibition.
Wilts, the good news is that the Fashion Museum's buy-a-bag fundraiser made their target and 1400 items are bagged ready for the big move.
Carol, it seems a shame you can't manage a trip to Bath - you've got four months yet?
Lizy, I've got too much to do between now and April. Bath is lovely, but I wouldn't want to travel all that way until at least May.
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I think as youths go, few were as mis-spent as mine. After passing my eleven-plus and filling my parents with hope, I proceeded to waste my education, becoming a persistent truant. While my classmates were tackling classical studies and chemistry, thirteen-year-old Joseph was three miles from school under arrest for shoplifting. The school became fed up with my absences, so I was kicked out at 16 and sent to a children's home, from which I absconded three times, and was once captured by police on the roof of a derelict cinema. I was badly beaten by staff at the home, and I left - without qualifications - to undertake the most menial and low-paid jobs. I almost killed myself guzzling sherry aged 17, and I started drinking heavily at that time. I was arrested and fined for various public order offences (and I received a beating from the police). If I apply for a job that requires a DBS check, my prospective employer will see two counts of receiving, and one of criminal damage - but nothing post-1980. This is merely the edited highlights - there was an awful lot more went on, and there are some things I'm sworn to secrecy over.
I wish it hadn't been that way, but we are where we are. I hasten to add that I've been a model citizen all my adult life. I think it's fair to say though that I did have a mis-spent youth
https://lizy-writes.blogspot.com/2022/01/clouds.html
https://carol-bevitt.com/2022/01/15/january-reorganisation/
Should help my time management too.