Sometimes the world seems a little…too much. Sometimes it’s easy to forget our roles in life – the possibilities we have of making the world a little better. …and sometimes we could do with being reminded that we’re not helpless, with nothing to say!
Brings to mind some verses –
“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” – Amos 5:24
And one of my favourites – “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” – Micah 6:8
And if you still need cheering up, here’s one that came out today. ❤
…and, of course, many other characters over a nearly 80 year career. Bernard Cribbins died yesterday. I mostly know him for playing Wilfred Mott in Doctor Who, but there were many roles over a long period of time. If you haven’t seen him in a role, then you’ve probably heard him!
I’ve been enjoying the rain – it’s not too cold at the moment, and this type of rain seems to bring the day closer and open up the years to memory. I wonder if that’s a universal feeling to rain? There’s a certain nostalgia, a breath of childhood, to these kinds of day. There’s also a fleeting breeze of possibility, ready for the catching. I’m not sure why – my childhood memories of rain tend to be more cyclonic… when I moved to England, I would find myself getting soaked at first. The rain I encountered there seemed to me to be so light that I wouldn’t need an umbrella. It was light, and soft, but also inexorable. I would find myself dripping without having noticed how wet it actually was, and somehow even wearing a raincoat didn’t seem to keep the damp out. On the other hand, the first time my Babe and I came back to Australia for a holiday we travelled around the country a bit. While we were in Cairns it started to rain just before we were going out. He immediately put on a coat. I couldn’t understand it – up north, the rain tends to be warm, and the humidity unbearable. A coat just doesn’t make sense! He soon found that out 😆 but it was just a difference in understanding – in England you put on a coat to go out in the rain, whatever the season…
Thinking about nostalgia… YouTube gives me suggestions for clips to play. Generally they’re based on what I’ve been watching recently, but sometimes it dredges up an old clip from years before. This is one that came up last night.
😥 As a Mum, this makes me sniffle a little. My boys will be moving out in the next few months, and I am happy for them to go out there and live their lives. It does bring home, though, that all the plans for their childhood are no longer valid – too late for all the places we were going to go, and the things we were going to do. There’s a sadness to that, but also an understanding that you can’t do everything. The window of opportunity to do better, to use time wisely, never really closes!
But, for today, I will watch the rain. Dream. And remember. ❤
…when you’re feeling down, what’s the quickest way to cheer yourself up?
😀
I remember this from the radio, many years ago. After the actual song came out, one of our local radio stations took it as their ad music (they replaced the “wo-o-ahh” bit with their name), so it was on air for a while, in one way or another. This version makes me want to dance!
I also like to take random photos 😆 Here are some flowers I saw yesterday.
A winter bee? 😀
I hope you’re not in the shadows at the moment. But, if you are, I hope that you can still see the flowers, and listen to the music! ❤
I’ve been out and about a couple of times in the last week or so. In the past, I’ve wandered around the place, enjoying my time, but not seeing anyone I know. These times, I ran into four lots of people, and had a good old catch up (yay!) 😀 I’ve just started on a new, stronger, pain killer. After a day out, I tend to need to stay in bed to recover. I had hoped to be OK this time, but apparently the painkiller takes a few days to kick in properly. I think I am basically an optimist. I can see beauty, and hope, in all sorts of things. Some (probably most) days I can see the days ahead, and future endeavours waiting for me. I can luxuriate in “not pain” for periods of time (when you have “definitely not not pain” 🙂 you are very aware when it goes away for a bit). Yesterday was mostly luxurious. Today was not. Still – life is a wonderful, curious, slightly ridiculous journey.
But… Some days are sombre, just get through, deal with the now type of days. Still flashes of beauty. Leaps of joy. But also a closer understanding of mortality. Life is good. And sometimes difficult… Still, the light shines through.
…today – live more of your life! Remember those ads? I remember them from sometime in the 80s.
What happened to the “infomercial”? I don’t remember seeing them much lately. There seemed to be lots of them at one time – ads that weren’t selling a product or touting a company, just passing on information. I like that this one includes suggestions for wellbeing other than sporty type pursuits (such as t-shirt printing or photography). I also remember this one from way back. I think I still dredge it up in my memory when I want to remember what each vitamin does. Having listened to it again, it seems I’ve been mixing up C and E – thinking vitamin C was good for my corpuscles!
I had a good wander around town this morning, so I feel like I was “in it” a bit more today than I have been lately. I even got the bus home!
If you are of a “certain age” (and Australian) you probably remember Sid the Seagull.
And here’s another one. It’s older (70s), and was put out by the Christian Television Association. Sorry about the quality – there aren’t too many copies of this that I can find.
I’m not entirely sure what it’s trying to say. In my memory, as a child, it was a call to “say g’day” to everyone, regardless of who they were or where they came from – I still think of it as a sort of multicultural “Australians together” kind of thing…
This one is an ad for a company, but it still raises a sniffle 😥 It was used in the sermon (on families) this last Sunday.
We haven’t, as a family, sat around the table for a meal for quite a long time. We do still talk to each other all the time ❤ Most Sunday lunchtimes are spent eating together, watching whatever TV show the boys want to watch. That might sound a bit antisocial, but I have to keep pausing it to discuss various things that come up during the show!
Since I’ve started on advertising for actual products, here are two more that will be instantly familiar to many people. These ones are from well before my time, but I frequently heard the jingles in childhood. Enjoy! 😀
I’ve just had a lovely dinner – roast lamb and potatoes. I’ve been calming down by listening to Home Free (because that always cheers me up!) And I’ve been cuddling in to my new unicorn pillow.
Comfy and cute! ❤
At the moment, the existing Jobsearch platform is in the process of transitioning to some sort of online company. It doesn’t overly concern me – I’m on disability exemption – but I had an email the other day that (sort of…) explained it. I also missed a phone call today about it, asking me to phone back. I did so…the sound was terrible – very quiet, with even that fading in and out. The person I spoke to had a very pronounced accent which, along with the existing fading problems, made it very difficult to work out what was going on. It seems that the phone call was “by mistake” anyway, but the man on the phone referred me to the previous email. Which somehow no longer exists in my jobsearch inbox. No, I didn’t accidentally delete it after I read it. I can’t find it in the deleted items, since I didn’t delete it. Also, there are no deleted emails in my inbox.There is literally nothing in my inbox – it is clearly saying that it’s completely empty. No sir. It is not because I’m “not tech savvy” (direct quote). I asked what had happened to my entire inbox, and also asked for the email to be sent again. Apparently that’s not possible – the system sends them, and there’s no facility to manually send that information. I would have to get in touch with my job provider, so they could send their copy. Oh yes – he also laughed at me when I kept asking how it could have completely disappeared (from the inbox on their site). It was obviously not their problem. Just, presumably, my incompetence on the internet.
I rang the job provider. They had no idea what he was talking about. They did take the time to find the information for me and send it to my personal email. I’m not sure why I would want to be transferred from them to the new platform, which apparently can’t send information to enquirers…
Anyway. I’m. Fine. Now. Really! 😆
I’ve been doing those quiz things, where you build a house, or choose an outfit. I don’t much care what colour/animal/etc I am in the end; I just like looking at all the clothes and decor… these ones were mostly set to tell you what colour you are. Generally, I’m the cool blues and greens, but for some reason today I was reds/oranges/yellows. Passionate. Feisty. Energetic. 😆 Still…tomorrow is another day –
There’s a lovely lady who gives them out at church. I haven’t been to the church building for a while, but my Babe was there last week and brought them home ❤ Want to see some close ups?
They still look lovely, but I’m hoping they’ll dry nicely as well, so I can keep them 🙂
I’m still coughing… apart from visits to the doctor and other medical stuff, I haven’t been out much. Went to the cafe for a coffee, and a quick look at the shops, but I was home within an hour. I had two Covid tests this week, due to a misunderstanding (my fault!), so I’ve doubly tested negative… 😆 Still looking for other stuff, so haven’t got those results yet.
Nice to know there are still flowers blooming. And fun songs to cheer me up!
Once again, another part of my childhood has gone. Yesterday (8/5/22, UK time), Dennis Waterman died. I remember watching “Minder” as a kid – back then, I would have seen the actors as quite old. It’s strange to look back from here and see that he was only in his early 30s when it started (so young!), and still seems too young at 74 to have died now. George Cole (Arthur) seemed impossibly ancient to me then, but was only a year older than I am now! Dennis Waterman was one of those actors that I associate with longrunning series that I watched with the family. I also remember being impressed that he sang the theme tune, as he also did for “New Tricks“, which we watch now on catch up TV. There’s a sadness in growing older and having to continually say goodbye to bits of the past – seeing the inevitable march of time going by…
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1000 Fields of Roses 