There was a time when I would do ten things before breakfast and not think anything of it…there was a time… No more. It has been almost ten years since I under went a significant life change and so I find myself in reflective mood. Today, an old friend of mine joined me in the late 50’s club and I passed on my best wishes to him as we all do nowadays via Facebook. His reply has made me think about the last ten years – have I had as many positive outcomes as I could have over that time?
Well I am still here which of course is the most positive outcome of the lot. I have made new friends and enjoyed a life over that period I had never even thought possible just a few months before my life changed. My son has been very successful academically and appears to be happy with his life and wife. There have been losses along the way and people I had made friends with have dropped out of my life which again is part of the rich tapestry of life. Perhaps the most personal growth I have shown in the last ten years is that I now can draw and paint with a certain amount of skill and reward. So almost ten years on I am in a good place, not very well off compared to some but far richer than most of the humans on this world. I guess my old friend was right after all.
Every now and then all the hard work in the garden pays off. If an Englishman’s home is his castle then what is the garden?
So goodbye to the first heatwave of the year – it was far too hot for me and hello to more bearable weather. I’m not sure I have moaned about weather forecasters on TV and radio who presume to know whether you will like the weather that is coming over the next 12 hours or so. It seems not to be as pronounced as it once was but I also balk against anyone telling me what I will or won’t like – sometimes weather forecasters cross that line.
The heat is the destroyer of creativity – well at least that is my experience.
Everybody’s got a thing that they do when it is hot: Some love it and sit out slowly increasing their chances of skin cancer; Others are a little more circumspect but nonetheless they still love the heat. Me I’m afraid have never been someone who really enjoys the heat after it reaches a certain point – anything above 22 degrees and I start to wilt. So I hide indoors or in what shade I can find – today I even went into the local Primark just to enjoy their industrial strength air con.
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