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Jim
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Sep 30, 2018 11:52PM
I cannot be accused of sharing it them, but I've got several other people hooked on it :-)
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Have you ever tried bullet journalling? I discovered it and it has revolutionalised my organisation, so long as I remember to write in the chuffing thing... Swings and Roundabouts.
I spend too much of my time wishing I was more organised or less scatty, I need to be more like you. Although, I'd be happy if I could just be a teeny bit more thoughtful of other people and not forget everything as soon as I'm told it
Jud wrote: "Have you ever tried bullet journalling? I discovered it and it has revolutionalised my organisation, so long as I remember to write in the chuffing thing... Swings and Roundabouts.
I spend too m..."
Jud, so with you on the wishing I could remember to be more considerate aspect. It’s a trouble I have in abundance! I have’t heard of bullet journaling, I’m going to go an look it up ... just after I’ve finished doing the things on this enormous list on the back of my hand which have to be finished before they rub off!
Jim wrote: "I cannot be accused of sharing it them, but I've got several other people hooked on it :-)"
Yesterday, I was asked with a devilish smile by one of the parishioners if I’d managed not to lock myself out this morning. He and his wife both read it but they only mention it if I’ve written a terribly sweary one!
Cheers
MTM
Just be careful, there are some people who go all out arty on their bullet journals. Mine is done with the nearest pen to hand and scribbled in. Nothing arty about it but that is what it was originally intended to be.Sometimes I find I have a few spare minutes and then I'll maybe use pretty coloured pens but that's as artistic as I get.
I did enjoy this blog, unfortunately I had to read it with no internet access, so couldn't see the pics of the doll house. I always wanted a doll house when I was younger, now I just think it's something else to dust!
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I did enjoy this blog, unfortunately I had to read it with no internet access, so couldn't see the pics of the doll house. I always wanted a doll house when I was younger, now I just think it's som..."There is a hint of that in the way I see it too! But I think I will enjoy trying to paint it in flint and brick and maybe try making cardboard tiles and balsa wood shingles to go on the front (1920s barn converter’s cheapskate substitute for the red hung tiles on the front of old Sussex houses. ;-)
Haven’t done one this week. I was in France and events overtook me!
Cheers
MTM
Yeah, but there is a connection with yours. Luckily I was away the week before so your cat fans haven't noticed!
The new one is up. ;-) Enjoy.https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/10/13/oops/
Really and I mean REALLY long one coming up next week (over 3,000 words).
Cheers
MTM
In my mind that automatically had "You aim too, please" attached to the end.
The urinal, in the signs I saw...
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "In my mind that automatically had "You aim too, please" attached to the end."Shouldn't that be in "Vanessa Mae's Naughty Thread"?
Loved the blog post (cat’s weren’t impressed with the laughter though!), although was a tad concerned you’d told us how to break into your house! I wonder if it is a combination of having extra things with McMini and your parents rather than you having to give up your me time, especially as you feel better in yourself for it. When I first moved in my house we had a Yale lock, it’s how I got friendly with my neighbours, I was forever locking myself out, so they offered to have a spare key. Then when I went out I’d put it in my going out bag and come home from work on a Mon to find no key to get in, so I actually started carrying my neighbours key in my handbag so if they weren’t in, I could let myself in to get my spare key! With my new door, I did go through a phase of leaving the key in the outside! I did that once when going to work, as I distracted myself letting my neighbours cat in, so she kindly took the key to work with her, forgot to text me, so when I got home with all my shopping, I couldn’t get in, so luckily about 3 people have a key to my house, so didn’t have to wait till she got home at 10pm! I am bad at forgetting to lock the door at night, and the new car doesn’t automatically lock itself, so that often stays open. I’m really not sure what my excuse is for having such a bad memory, it could be the sponge thing though as it started when I started doing voluntary work and have a lot more to remember. I also think my poor sleeping has an effect.
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Loved the blog post (cat’s weren’t impressed with the laughter though!), although was a tad concerned you’d told us how to break into your house! I wonder if it is a combination of having extra thi..."Yep a mate pointed that out and I removed the detail so now it’s just that I can get in in 10 seconds or so!
Cheers
MTM
M.T. wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Loved the blog post (cat’s weren’t impressed with the laughter though!), although was a tad concerned you’d told us how to break into your house! I wonder if it is a c..."That never even registered with me. Although, I can promise if I ever break into your house Mary that I'll pop the kettle on and I'll open the door to save you the hassle of breaking in yourself. I will eat all the chocolate biscuits though.
There arent many Jud. I have a mcmini!This weeks rant is massive! Enjoy.
https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/10/20/bo...
M.T. wrote: "There arent many Jud. I have a mcmini!This weeks rant is massive! Enjoy.
https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/10/20/bo..."
In that case, I'll be sure to stop by the shop on my way
M.T. wrote: "There arent many Jud. I have a mcmini!This weeks rant is massive! Enjoy.
https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/10/20/bo..."
One of the best :-)
M.T. wrote: "There arent many Jud. I have a mcmini!This weeks rant is massive! Enjoy.
https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/10/20/bo..."
This is better than all the sermons I heard in my childhood. Definitely food for thought, for me at least :o)
Excellent blog Mary - I thoroughly agree with what you are saying.
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "Excellent blog Mary - I thoroughly agree with what you are saying."forwarded to the vicar and suggested I use it in church instead of the sermon :-)
Great idea Jim :)
Thanks everyone. That took a few weeks to do because I kept working on it and then stopping and then I thought it was too big and needed splitting and then I thought, shit, I haven’t done a blog post sod it this’ll do! Mwahahahrgh.Woah there Jim, an MTM sermon! Oh how my teachers would cringe in horror!
Glad y’all liked it!
Cheers
MTM
That took two evenings to read to the cats, it was so long! I started off a bit tearful, then thought how lovely your parents were to show such generosity
With MTM and Tallis there are times I fear for your cats' sanity :-)Have you read them ‘The Cats of Ulthar’
by H. P. Lovecraft
https://www.theshortstory.co.uk/wp-co...
They also get yours and Alicia's for the sanity Jim :-) I might give that a go, I have a few animal stories to read them next year (including one of yours)
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "They also get yours and Alicia's for the sanity Jim :-) I might give that a go, I have a few animal stories to read them next year (including one of yours)"It's nice to know that I'm a little oasis of sanity in a troubling world :-)
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "They also get yours and Alicia's for the sanity Jim :-) I might give that a go, I have a few animal stories to read them next year (including one of yours)"I'm honored. Love cats.
Alicia wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "They also get yours and Alicia's for the sanity Jim :-) I might give that a go, I have a few animal stories to read them next year (including one of yours)"I'm honor..."
I'm glad. I read them Jim's latest last night (including comments) and completely agreed with yours that we just go back to normal after a funeral, regardless of any comments we might say about keeping in touch.
I do think that we hold ourselves together in such times by wrapping the 'normal' around us, almost like a cloak.
Jim wrote: "I do think that we hold ourselves together in such times by wrapping the 'normal' around us, almost like a cloak."Absolutely agree, I blogged about that too, somewhere. I find that when events are surreal, like funerals, deaths, and, yeh, dementia, it’s the pieces of normal every day that keep you teathered to who you are, who they are what life is etc .... Cloak of normality doesn’t sound quite as cool as Cloak of Invisibility but it is a thing and the last three or four years or so, I’ve been wearing it a lot!
Cheers
MTM
I've noticed that for the elderly it's that cloak of normality that anchors them. When they go into hospital that cloak is whisked away and they are in severe difficulties. I watched one man in his nineties go from somebody doing his own income tax to somebody needing full dementia care in two months after a fall that broke his hip :-(
Yeh, a lovely friend of Mum's went the same way. The morphine and the general (if administered) to fix the break do a lot to break that link I think.
Yes, the side effects of painkillers can be devastating
Word. I live with chronic pain and it’s basically a choice of knowing who I am and being able to remember my own name or not hurting. But I’m only 50 so imagine that effect on someone who is elderly.
Hilarious, was hard to read out loud for laughing!
Glad you enjoyed it! I have more for next week, not quite so much McMini’s weirdness, more mine but it still has a bit of comic mileage!Cheers
MTM
A fun tale, already shared on facebook, a real joy ;-)
Only just read last weeks, thanks to Jim and Tallis being so prolific this week! Couldn't read it all out loud, too emotional. Looking forward to this weeks
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Only just read last weeks, thanks to Jim and Tallis being so prolific this week! Couldn't read it all out loud, too emotional. Looking forward to this weeks"I had this mental picture of you sitting, red eyed, weeping into your handkerchief, surrounded by solemn cats
Mind you, given that they get both Mary and Tallis, your cats must have a pretty strange idea of what comprises normal humanity ;-)
That's the good thing about semi-ferals, they have had little human contact before coming here!
I shared your newest blog with some american friends and they love it :)
Jim wrote: "A fun tale, already shared on facebook, a real joy ;-)"Thanks for sharing, Jim, it's much appreciated and I'm glad you enjoyed reading it!
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "That's the good thing about semi-ferals, they have had little human contact before coming here!"
That's probably why they like my blog. I reckon I'm semi-feral!
Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "I shared your newest blog with some american friends and they love it :)"
Ooo thank you. I did have some new followers who appeared to be real humans as opposed to bots so maybe they're in there somewhere!
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