I realise I have already submitted a post for today,that was more a very condensed version of the severe economic difficulties we face,we have said goodbye to Woolworths with a lossof 28,000 jobs,so many companies have gone to the wall and it all happened so very quickly,repossessions and redundancies are rife,not a pretty picture but we are a stoic nation and somehow we will pull through this.I can't help but acknowledge a shake up was needed,but people are paying very heavily.I'd say it's a depression, having lived through 3 recessions this is very different,and it's also the uncertainty,but I shall come back to this subject at a later date,we have to catch up from last October.
I saw my 61st birthday and hubby his 64th in October,eldest son was 33 in November which was a very busy month,the youngest was off to Miami,South Beach area,she loves it over there, the people, the lifestyle, but what a historic moment to be in the USA,the 1st black president was elected Barak Obama ,for once America got it right,what a statesman they have.
We had the Good Food Show back in the U.K. and the Clothes Show Live at the NEC Birmingham,something we do every year in the run up to Christmas and what a concert at Symphony Hall in December a week before the big day,a family occassion followed by panto a few days later.
January always appears to be flat,probably for that very reason,let's face it everything is done to excess during Christmas/New Year,and then you take the decorations down..yes it becomes very flat,and we've had a particularly harsh Winter,snow and hail today even.
February back once more to the NEC where we enjoyed Strictly Come Dancing the tour,and then it was daughter's birthday,but now we're in March ,Spring,it's staying lighter for longer of an evening,always a good sign,and we've had some springlike days ,it's been good to get out in the garden.
Tomorrow we're off to see David Essex,yes I've loved him since my teen years,in a musical he's co-written,All The Fun Of The Fair,at the Hippodrome Birmingham,many of his songs are in it.
Two weeks time we're off on the first of our holidays,hubby and I in Somerset...It seemed like a good idea when I booked for the end of March,fingers crossed the snow stays away it's a beautiful part of the country,then May we're off to Lincoln,Skegness and Mablethorpe and September Majorca,Puerto Pollensa,daughter's off to Boston.
A very condensed catch up but here's hoping my posts become more regular...and I'm still doing my workout,tried the volunteer work,and it didn't suit as I couldn't see how I was enhancing the patients time in hospital,more a case of the NHS obtaining labour with no cost.
If it was a charity I'd have no problem but not when it crosses into an area of utilising volunteers to fill in for paid work.Many will do as asked, they're hoping for employment, or on placement so unlikely to say no when asked to do something ,one guy was cleaning beds now that's not what I'd call volunteer work.
Time for bed now will catch up later.
Jenny
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