Diary summary week ending 23rd March 2025

[JenB]

RTL, where are you?

RTL is fine, she is very busy with work and family.

[louisa maud]

Oh good,  i did pm her recently.
Pleased she is ok

LM

[Roobarb]

Good to hear RTL is okay. 

[Viktoria]

Yes, I too am glad she  is O.K.Well relatively,she is a stoic like many others.

Some very challenging illnesses bravely borne by a good number of RootsChatters.It is  always good to read of such resilience ,it brings you down to earth and realise you are not too bad after all.


I talked to myself today ,and said that I would try out my scooter ,So gate unlocked ,shed unlocked ,ramps down ,——-scooter seat down  ——-no idea whatsoever how to unfold it , looked at manual , nothing .
Soooo, ramps back,shed locked ,gate locked ,and did some weeding and a garden tidy instead.
Son came back from delivering his orescription order and got in to shed and
found a lever ,problem solved——- 
Soooo I might try tomorrow.

Just listening to Gareth Southgate ,The Dimbleby Lectures.
What a lot of sense he has spoken ,especially re young people and their phones , resilience ,and parenting getting softer.

A lovely day today but rain for tomorrow.
I got a good bit of fresh air and sunshine whilst doing some necessary jobs .

Well off to bed and my difficult book .
Look after yourselves folks ,
Viktoria.

[Caw1]

Good luck with your scooter Viktoria, I will be thinking of you tomorrow and hope you’ll enjoy your first? Outing on it!

We listened to Gareth Southgate too, what a measured man he is and such thoughtfulness and good advice he gave… an inspiration to the young. It’s a pity his missed penalty always gets brought up.. poor man. It sounds like he had good advice after the event as been able to learn such strength from it.

Glad to hear that RTL is ok.

Goodnight all, looking forward to a warm day tomorrow.

Caroline

[Viktoria]

Thanks everyone for your encouragement.
Jebber is very brave ,hope you are not so sore today J, a very difficult set of circumstances you are overcoming .eee, by gum !we are made of strong stuff we third generation people ,well fourth in some cases !

Best wishes to all who are unwell, I admire your fortitude folks.

No I did not try my scooter today,son was in a conference all day - three ways and international so I thought if I get in a mess and knock a couple of gravestones down he would not be able to help my getaway!

Despite it being forecast ,no rain today but a glorious day,so a bit more gardening , two dead Fuchsias pulled out and two pots of Tulips put in place .
Think the Lavender is nearly dead ,I will replace it but plant it somewhere .
It might recover if I am brutal .

Well time for “ The Dog House “, so Cheerio ,look after yourselves especially those unwell we know about but also those who have illness but don’t mention it but carry on alone.

Viktoria.

[radstockjeff]

There is an organisation down here in this neck of the woods, West of England Rural Network- which works with local communities in a number of different ways.
One such here in Radstock is to facilitate a monthly get together for the locals to Reminisce. There is a rep from WERN who will probably bring along some material to start the ball rolling and for an hour we sit around and chat either about the piece provided or,more often than not, we introduce topics from the floor. Our group,which I started attending last year, has about eight or nine regular members, and we sit chatting over a cup of coffee. Some very intersting topics crop up as you can imagine.
This morning there was a new attendee, well I had not seen her there bfore but I have missed a number of recent meetings. Her name was Janet, and we sat around the table chatting away. There was something about her which began to trigger my memory tabs and I eventually felt confident in expressing my thoughts. Are you Janet............?, who was a very good friend of Margaret........, who also happened to be a very good friend of ours.   
Yes she said, but how do you know me?  Well going back about 20 years when we first went to Australia,(for Andrew's wedding) we needed someone to look after the house and our two dogs and a cat. And so Janet, who lives not far from us, offered, through Margaret, her services.
And then the light dawned on Janet and we spent a fruitful fifteen minutes until it was time to go home reminiscing. In all those years since, I don't suppose we had seen her but two or three times, but kept in touch via our friend Margaret, who has sadly since died.

And the topic of the day, brought by the facilitator was also something to which I could relate. It was her grandfather's Crossing the Line Certificate issued by King Neptune, on a sea journey to India during WW2. I had experienced a similar occasion coming back from Africa in 1953 but had not participated as I was too young. But again it brought back some more happy memories.
rj

[mare]

Great to have those get-togethers and topics Jeff and some company, amazing to cross paths with past friends and acquaintances when it happens.

Hoping myself that I see a few I know or recognise at a school renunion on Sunday, it's just a lunchtime gathering for pupils of first 10 years of the high school I attended, have been to other weekend reunions and usually meet up with a few but sometimes not ones from my class and this time not aware of friends attending, one in particular who would usually go now living too distant having moved recently.

Have a good weekend all and also best wishes to all dealing with health issues ...

[louisa maud]

Must admit I have never been keen on school reunions, would like to be a fly  on the wall to see how others got on but not in person.

Viktoria,  please don't go alone  to a cemetery,  number one it is usually difficult terrain,  more so in a scooter but also a lonely place for us older  people , when my father died  we wouldn't let  my mother go to the cemetery  unless  I went with her,   wasn't safe.

Here's  hoping  all the RC's who are not so well are improving, the warm sunny days should make us all feel better

LM
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