Cats in the Kitchen, Flora in the Garden

First of all I want to thank all of you who left such kind comments on my site and emailed me after my last posting. There is nothing like people's understanding of your problem for somehow helping make that problem easier to handle.

Things have got no better really on that front, except that my Mother now finally has realised that she can't go on living where she is. Unfortunately, I feel if she stays this way she will not be able to eventually occupy a bungalow in the sheltered accommodation near me. She will need a ground floor flat where carers live on site to keep an eye on residents and there is someone on hand 24/7. She is not happy giving up the second bedroom she has at the moment but she never uses the second bedroom, it just accumulates rubbish. At least she is accepting changes in her future.

I spent today, finishing off the moving in to my new artroom, by putting down a lovely 6x8 ft rush mat that we had but never used, over the floorboards. I put up a cheerful yellow voile curtain at the window and it looks wonderful to me. There is only one corner of the room that has boxes still to sort, I have put a throw over them until I get round to sorting them in the next few days. Already I feel really at home sitting at the table in there. I will take photographs of it very soon.


I want to publicise 'One Day in History', which is going to happen on 17th October On that day as many people as possible are to write a blog of their day [no longer than 600 words unfortunately] and post it on the website linked below, before November, These blogs are going to be kept for future generations to give an idea of life in 2006. I think that this is a wonderful idea. I saw this first on PG's site and looked it up, they are desperate for it to be publicised. Unfortunately you have to live in Britan to take part. I certainly am, I will publish it on my blog and on theirs. I have taken an extract from their site for the next paragraph and at the end of that I have put the html of their site. Please any British bloggers that read this join in. I know as a History Graduate, how fascinating the Mass Observation Second World War Diaries of the population were, ordinary people keeping diaries about their everyday lives.

'One Day in History'
A MASS BLOG for the national record. The History Matters campaign has designated October 17 a day for the public to make historic. We have chosen 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance to ask you to write a one day on-line diary.
We want as many people as possible - tens of thousands of UK residents - to record a 'blog' diary of this one day to be by the British Library and others as a record of our national life.
And we want to urge people to reflect in their diaries how history itself impacted on them - whether it be simply commuting through an historic environment, or how business history influenced their decision-making, or merely that they looked up some old sports statistics or listened to some pop music from the 1960s. It could be anything.
'Ordinary' day
October 17 has been chosen deliberately as 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance. We want to record the mundane and ordinary lives of citizens and by doing something contributing valuable to the historic record. Material that could be used by historians and researchers for time to come.
Mass Observation
The idea is inspired by similar experiments by Mass Observation, the social history resource, founded in 1937, and which still exists today - based at the University of Sussex.
How
From the 17 October until 1 November it will be possible to add your 'One Day in History' diary on this website.
To do so you willl have to fill out a simple form. We will ask you to write your diary on the form. This can be from one word up to 650 words (about the size of one page of A4). After you have added your diary we will also ask you to fill in a few key words describing what you have written. This could be words like town names, your name, key facts. This enables the diaries to be more searchable so that you should be able to find your diary easily afterwards.

The archive thereby created will be held by the British Library, Mass Observation, the National Trust and others.

http://www.historymatters.org.uk/output/Page95.asp



I was tagged by Pretty Lady to do the Three Answer Meme, so here goes:-

1.Things that scare me:
Nuclear War
Bigoted Christian Fundamentalists
Mad Axe Men

2. People who make me laugh:
My son [he has a wicked dry sense of humour]
Peter Kay
John Cleese in 'Fawlty Towers' - [yes, I still laugh even after all these years]

3. Things I hate the most:
Red Tape
Politicans who see things in black and white with no shades of grey [example- if you do not agree with us you are a supporter of terrorism]
Nations testing nuclear bombs

4. Things I don't understand:
Tony Blair [Where is he coming from? Is he unhinged, an egotist or both?]
People who never have a flight of fancy but just moan all the time
How we allegedly found the technology to land on the moon but can't cure serious diseases

5. Things I'm doing right now:
Writing this posting obviously
Listening to Neil Young's first album
Sporadic chatter with husband who is making me a coffee in the kitchen

6. Things I want to do before I die:
Live in Ireland for a few months
Travel all around England, staying in hotels visiting small towns, I have liked the look of as I have sped through en route to somewhere else. Sometimes we overlook the beauties of England in our search for exotic lands.
Live in Cornwall for the rest of my life

7. Things I can do:
Communicate with cats
Fly on a broomstick
Tell tales around a fire

8. Ways to describe my personality:
Daydreamer extraordinaire
Changeable [either ferociously organised or completely ditsy]
Some one who will go out of their way to help a friend [but don't cross me I'm Scorpio]

9. Things I can't do:
Swim
Ride a horse
Stand on the top of a high building, mountain or cliff and look over the edge

10. Things I think you should listen to:
A cat's purr
The dawn chorus
The voice of reason on the world's political stage

11. Things you should never listen to:
People who try to put you down
People who say your project will 'never work'
Bigoted and racist talk

12. Things I'd like to learn:
The secrets of the forest
To drive a pony and trap
Excellence with herbs and crystals

13. Favorite foods:
My home made soups
Indian Food
Mexican Food

14. Beverages I drink regularly:
Coffee
Wine [ either red or white]
Pomegrante juice

15. Shows I watched as a kid:
The Woodentops
Robin Hood
Fireball XL5

16. Person’s I'm tagging to do this meme:
Anyone that cares to do it.

Don’t forget to join in Daisy Lupins’
Halloween Ghost Story Posting
Post a ghost story, something strange that happened
To you or a tale you want to tell
On 31st October, or as near to before
As possible.
Let’s have a Giant Story Circle