After a busy day, yesterday, it’s time to kick off my shoes and have a day of wrest before the big cooking day tomorrow.
As we approached our train station yesterday, I was surprised at firstly how little security there was and B, how few people there were. According to staff, there were loads due later and before our return in the evening. Thank goodness.
We had a revolting meal, smile, again vegetarian meal was just lacking in imagination, but Hub had a lamb stew and he said his was lovely. A short train journey later and at the other end was our friend waiting bless him. Our dogs were glad to get off the train, they were so good LF did shiver waiting for the train, mind you it was bitter cold. Definitely the coldest day so far since last Feburary.
We got into our friends lovely 4 x 4 and a short drive to our friend’s home. Spent a great day catching up handed over gifts and a sad bye bye on our way home again. Gosh getting off the train, I looked drunk. It’s so hard when you can’t see anything you really struggle walking in a straight line and if you don’t walk straight going down the isle of the train, you end up on someone’s lap. Where we were sitting as well, there wasn’t anything to hold onto the seats were single then after a few of those, double then the seats would go single again, normally when on and off a buss, you can walk better as the seats are all the same so you stick to the ends of the seating but when suddenly a seat is missing, and there is a gap, it’s complicated. A bit like what I am trying to say. Smile.
(A lot of seats/seating in that paragraph. Sorry.)
I always feel sad that the children don’t look out of the window any more. Their faces are stuck looking down at their screens. Even the grandparents are heavily involved now in tech as a Grandmother yesterday was playing videos to her eight-year-old Grand Son. I know his age because they talked about it. She was playing videos from Facebook and laughing along with them. In a plastic world, no in-depth conversations or anything to do with educating the kids in a fun way, just a plastic world where the universe is heading.
I was the other way with my Son. Always talking to him about life and what would make it a better world, what we can do to change it and what is good in life, what is sad and the positives of what he has done and going to do. His cartoon time was in front of the big TV just before or after a meal. I know now he is the same as all the other people of his age and younger, but I feel he had a good start that I hope opened his mind to the world.
Off the train and there was trouble in coach F. thank goodness not ours but the member of staff told us the police were involved as a man was abusive and smoking as well as nonstop drinking. We got our taxi thankfully no one waiting at the taxi rank and home we went. It’s funny you know as the taxi drivers are not keen of having two dogs in their cars. But Hub just gets in no matter and acts as if nothing has happened. I mean the dogs are perfect they lay on the floor yes there are hairs especially with LF as he is gold, but the dogs are much cleaner than most humans.
Home to an empty house but signs of the teens as homemade Chinese food was all over the kitchen.
Ten minutes later, our groceries came. Oh my, where to put more food? Anyone would think we were under siege the amount of food we have each Christmas. Cupboards, fridge and freezer, two of them are bursting full.
Took ages to put the food away, we guessed every item this time, sometimes when we receive our shopping, there are a few things we can’t work out what they are.
Today it’s wild wind, raining and preparing for storm Barbara. It’s been the busiest shopping day of the year. But still I met my friend and we went for a coffee and cake as well as having a great catch up as we can talk for England, no, Britain, well, hang on, actually, the Universe!
I love her and her family. They have adopted us as their extended family. It’s an honour to be a part of that. Just as it is to have our friends from Northumberland as our family. They are really part of our family we love them loads.
My friend came in to our house for some moments after we had gone out for a coffee as she wanted to look at our tree. Gosh I was shocked at her reaction as she loved it, said it looks like a professionally decorated. I’m buzzing as it took ages and I’m sure if I could see it would have been less than half that time it took me, but I did it on my own and without any vision and it’s had such positive things said about it. There is something I can still do that the sighted can do. She said I put her to shame. Bless her. As I keep telling her, she has her stunning looks and figure, not to mention her beautiful clothes. She is like a model.
My friend who we were with yesterday, he is the photographer for a person with a helicopter and they pick up famous people. He was telling me that he picked up Donald Trump last year and said he was a very charming man. He has a photograph of him next to his helicopter. Gosh if only he knew then that he was going to be President of the United States?
Gosh, they have found that evil person who killed the poor Polish man after hijacking his truck then ploughing it into the market place killing a dozen innocent people. Thankfully they killed him. He will be on his way to hell now. I feel so sorry for the families of those who are now grieving including the family of the murderer who was shot dead in Italy. If his family are good people, then they now are grieving too. Italy? How? How do you get from Germany to Italy if you are wanted? Easy, because Europe have the freedom of travel. This needs to change really it does.
Peace Bloggets. Please? Love kindness and peace because what goes around comes around. If you have hateful thoughts and commit hateful actions, what do you really think will happen?
What every you are in life, is where you will end up. Whatever you believe in can be changed but only you can change it. What if you believe in something so strongly and you don’t want to change it? Think out of the box, are your actions really justified? It’s easy to go through life doing what is comfortable to you, but what makes you think this is the right thing to do? It takes a very brave person to do something that is difficult and out of their comfort zone.
Groucho Marx was said to have written. “Why should I care about posterity, what has posterity ever done for me?”” It’s a selfish thought that don’t you think? Don’t look after this world because it will be fine whilst we are on the earth, and when we go, so what? Who cares? We should though because we were given this beautiful world, so show our gratitude by giving back to our future!!!
The past has gone, the future hasn’t happened yet. Today however, is a great gift, which is why we call it the present. Don’t take gifts without giving something back and the only way we can give back is providing a future.
Lot’s of Christmas blogs over the next 24 hours and my Diary for tomorrow will be full of cooking. Smile. Until then, lot’s of love is sent your way. Get ready to catch it? It’s quite light, but so much of it, it may spill over x
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