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Calmed down now!
Saturday April 7th.
Thanks everyone for your kind words and support over my predicament with my journal. I do not see why I should stop writing it because of some nasty folk who cannot keep their noses out of other people's business. So I have decided that I will close down this journal and start a new one for invited guests only. This is a shame as over the years I have got to know some of you through sheer chance. You have just accidentally fallen on my blog or read it through another friend. Still that will have to be what I shall do. I am not sure how you start a new one. How does that work? I do not really want to delete this journal. Does it stay in tact if you start a new one? I need help here so if anyone can answer my questions please do. I am not sure if any of you have more than one journal. There are a lot of things I would like to say but I have never been able to about my last school. Despite what they think I have never criticised it online or any of its members of staff. In fact I have hardly mentioned the school or its pupils. The journal is mostly about my very ordinary life and my family. I want to continue talking about my kids and grandkids and how proud of them I am. I also know I keep you all entertained with tales of my internet dating and quest for a middle aged man...or elderly one for that matter! So I will be continuing but in private. That is once I find out how to do that!! Probably about time as the name Temporarily disabled does not really apply anymore. It was a reason for starting to write in the first place. But that is about 3 years ago now and I have moved on somewhat!!
We are supposed to be having a heat wave this weekend. It was certainly warm in the sunshine yesterday but it did not feel 70 degrees in Southport. Maybe that was just along the south coast. We still had a cool wind which kept the temperature down. It is nice to be able to sit in the sun though and I do hope this warm front continues. It is great for the kids too as bank holidays tend to be a wash out. Rain, rain and more rain is the usual menu. At least mums and dads can let their little darlings run riot in the countryside when the weather is good. And it does not cost a lot to keep them entertained. My grandsons will spend hours building dens in the woods or playing on the beach. This costs nothing and is healthy play outside in the fresh air. Anything to get them off the computers and away from the tv. The roller skates have become popular as an activity. So it was worth spending all that money on the Xmas presents for Joe and Max. I did not buy skates for Owen as I thought he was a liability just on his feet without putting skates on him!!
I did not see nikki and family yesterday as I had two lessons to do which took all morning. Then I had lunch at home and sat down to watch films.I saw Jim Carey's Fun with Dick and Jane. It was very funny and I laughed out loud all on my onio! I give it 9/10 for Jim Carey's sheer comic genius! Then I started to watch a film called Scenes of a sexual nature. It was slow to start and not as far as I remember very sexual! I woke up when it was all over!! So I slept through 2 hours of film of a sexual nature! God I must be getting old or perhaps it wasn't that sexual after all. I will have to watch it again to see!
I was awoken by the phone and it was Liz inviting me to dinner as she had made a large Fish pie for a Good Friday bash! As I love fish pie I got over there by 7pm. I may have told you that my normal enormous appetite for food has been diminished since the episode of the stomach bug. So as the idea of fish pie excited me...especially when I did not have to cook it myself, I did not hesitate in accepting the invitation. Once there we waited for it to reheat and I sat down to a small portion. I do not overload my plate these days as I cannot manage big meals without feeling sick. At the tapas bar I ate well but smaller portions than I would have normally eaten. Liz was quite surprised at the small amounts I am now eating as she is used to me being a pig! I ate the small portion of a delicious fish pie and felt really full. I did not have second helpings. Liz did and said she felt a real glutton! I had to turn down the soup for starters and the dessert as I just could not manage anything but the main course. Still I am sure I ate too much before so this must be a good thing. I am also drinking a lot of water instead of wine. That must be good too I suppose!
I took some dvds with me but we ended up just chatting and listening to Clannad the Irish folk band. Liz is really into Irish everything,....men, music, dance, poetry etc. We are hoping to have a long weekend in Dublin soon. I have been once when I lived on the Isle of Manas it was easy to get to Ireland from there. I preferred it to Belfast, which I also visited by ferry. The countryside is beautiful and the people are magical it is true and make visitors very welcome. Dublin is steeped in history with architectural wonders and the city is bustling and vibrant. I look forward to our trip. I am lucky that Liz is interested in all the things I am and is a keen jazz fan. I find people either hate or love jazz there are no in betweens. I like all jazz but Liz prefers trad jazz. I prefer John Coltraine and Miles Davies, which I suppose is more mainstream jazz. We also read a lot, enjoy museums, enjoy art and actually paint ourselves. She tolerates my smoking which is good. She never lectures me on its evils! I can honestly say that when we go away we get on and do not have words about anything. She is very laid back and she complements my enthusiasm for visiting new places and doing new things. A great person to go on holiday with!
Liz and I are meeting up this afternoon after she has done a spot of decorating....painting doors. This is because she is putting her large house on the market so that she can down-size and retire from her full time job in Liverpool. She needs to have money behind her as she is not lucky enough to have a good pension like me. Nevertheless she must retire as full time work is now wearing her out. She is living in preson at the moment but is so taken with my flat that she is thinking of moving to Southport. That will be great if she does as we will be able to spend even more time together.
I do not know what we will end up doing tonight but we may try the dreaded Disco again in the hope that one of these evenings someone will actually ask one of us to dance...or both of us ideally! You live in hope!! Still a good frantic dance around our handbags will probably do us both good!
Must go now as I have set myself household chores to do this morning. Boring things like cleaning shower and baths, vacuuming and dusting, ironing, cleaning out fridge etc etc. Have a good holiday weekend!
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"I am not sure how you start a new one. How does that work? I do not really want to delete this journal. Does it stay in tact if you start a new one? I need help here so if anyone can answer my questions please do. I am not sure if any of you have more than one journal."
Connie, there is a place in the edit journal. The button is at the top right of your journal. Under Manage your settings, select Make Journal Private. That way you don't have to start another journal... you can continue this one, and you can add those of us you already know and trust to your list of approved readers. It will let you do that. If you want to start another one, just begin a new one just like you did this one, and give it a different name. Either way, you can have a journal that is private and avoid critical readers who will hold what you write against you.
I hope this helps. Bea -
Connie when and if you go private this blog will still be there for you to use ~ so could update it now and then just in case any new readers want to join your private one ~ good luck with it if that is the way you are going ~ hopefully I will get an invite :o) ~ Ally x
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Hi Connie if you go private I would love to be able to still read about you and yours .We went to Dublin last May to celebrate my husbands 60th birthday and had a great time ,so many places to visit but not enough time !! Glad you enjoyed your time with Liz .....Love Jeanxx
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Hi Connie please invite me when your journal goes private as I love reading about your energetic life! Shame you have to go private love Gill x
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