Good evening dearest Bloggets.
It’s almost seven in the evening. Teen got in from work forty minutes ago, quickly ran and got changed from his uniform to his gym clothes and dashed out. He never stops.
We have had a most enjoyable day. Our friends picked us up and we went to a local pub for lunch. We sat in front of the fire, though I swear it could have been a radiator, turned off, as there was no sound of crackling, no warmth or smell coming from it. I only knew I was there because our friends said, oh let’s go and sit next to the fire. Outside you can smell the chimney, but inside? We went last week with my Brother and Sister in law, the meal wasn’t a success. So, this time we said we would have a sandwich. Well, it was delicious. Very overpriced, but really nice. I can tell you we weren’t paying for the heating… As the place isn’t warm and we are not paying a bill for the furniture, as it’s out of charity shops I’m sure. But today’s food was lovely, I had chips with my sandwich and salad, it was really really tasty. Oh, if I had a pub, it would be so lovely… Ready for this?
The place where there was a cold drinks bar would be glass and chrome then you walk through to a very cosy area with a stone floor and a proper roaring fire and really comfortable seating with lamps, heavy ones, not the kind blind people can knock over as they pass by… Not that I have any experience at doing such things, hahaha.
Well, not really!!!
And there would be a pine bar where you got teas from all over the world, coffee and hot chocolate. There would be happy people selling the food and drinks. I think from good old Newcastle, as I swear I have never been in a pub quite like the ones in Northumberland where I used to live. They were friendly, genuine too. Don’t get me wrong, the owners of this place were lovely, are lovely, the staff even try to have a laugh with us, just they try too hard, humour doesn’t come easy to some parts of our country. Such a tiny country is England and really the difference in areas is really obvious. I love living here, but miss so much the warmth and humour, not sure if intentional of the Geordies. The people where I used to live. But I’m talking older people, as the youth in my old home town sadly are losing it, they are blending in with the rest of the UK. In my day, our Dads, Grandfathers and so on were coal miners and they had such a way about them. They had their own way of talking, their humour was fantastic and there was a genuine warmth about themselves that they passed it onto the younger members of the families, but the younger members of the families became bank managers, teachers, solicitors and huge department store workers and so on, so over the generations, the pit talk humour and warmth, became weaker and eventually we are now products of diluted genes.
I love the people where I live now, I really really feel proud to be among them as they are so helpful and kind, but I so miss the old pubs, café’s and so on where I used to live. But as I said, now, will it be the same, now the youth have taken over? Possibly not, but what is the same is the country pubs you get in the wonderful Northumberland. If you are visiting England, please, head towards Northumberland. Stay for a few days, visit our castles, gardens and beaches. We have the best beaches in England, and I think the best history. We have so much greenery. The countryside is the best in the UK next to parts of Scotland. People talk about Devon, oh my. I believe people who talk about how wonderful it is there have never been to the North East.
So, this pub was, or is, OK, but the company was great. We had a laugh, my strong opinions came close to causing some kind of political outrage, but hey, a nudge from Hub,
and I didn’t stop. hahaha. I call a spoon a spoon and if people don’t like it, they can lump it. I’m entitled to my views. Well, I can’t have been that bad as we have been asked back out by them. Or was that just Hub? Hahahaha.
It was a great day. My cold is getting better, I just have a cough and a dreadful head ache but I’m sure I’m on the mend.
Our food shopping is due in half an hour or so it’s mainly party food for tomorrow night. It was my Mums tradition and I have continued that down the family, and I hope my Son will too, but we have to have a table of food on the night of New Year’s Eve and we don’t cook on New Year’s Day or put out any rubbish. So, we make sure our indoor bins are all empty before midnight. I could bore you with the reasons why, but it is a tradition I love. So tomorrow I will be baking and cooking all day.
I hope when I am writing to you this time next year, I will be buzzing with some kind of fantastic news. Some luck will come our way that will affect the rest of the world. Some success. We have hope.
I’m pleased to see that America’s next President isn’t trying to make enemies of Russia, let’s hope the horrid cold war we lived through for so long can start to warm up again? Because we got warm with them and then it all went very wrong dangerously wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand Putin, but I also hate wars and I think with the combination of Trump and our PM Mrs May, we can keep Putin calm. We all need to stand together but in our own countries minding our own business’s. Together in peace and away from war.
This time next year my Son won’t be a Teen anymore. Oh, how old does that make me? My baby will be on his way to being a man. But I will never forget how difficult it has been bringing him up. Gosh, what a challenge. Because I have my views my beliefs that are very strong and some say too moralistic, personally, I think if everyone thought like me the world would be a nicer place, hahaha. How arrogant is that? Hub asked me the other day, who made me miss perfect? I am so far from perfect, in so many ways. I just care about people and the future and so many now don’t. So many live for today and themselves.
Well, I hope you all have a very wonderful weekend. Please don’t drink if you are going to drive. No matter how much you think you are perfectly fine. It’s not worth going to jail for that one more drink. So you may have to pay a bit more for a taxi? Surely that is better than facing time in prison or losing your licence, moreover, the nightmares of the family you could leave without a parent, daughter, Son, or Grandchild. Wife, Husband or best friend. The nightmares that will haunt you forever. Just for one extra drink. Don’t think it will never happen to you.
If it were up to me I would totally ban all alcohol. It’s a drug though and sadly too many people are addicted so it’s too late some would say.
I’m so proud of my friends who have stopped smoking this year. My friend Beth and dearest Terry. And today I have learned another friend is going to stop on Monday. Amazing, if only I had your strength to get fit? I started this year so well, and what went wrong? France, our lovely holiday where Teen almost killed me off with the speed of his walking and the combination of my really not well knee. Oh, I have some news on that, I will let you know in another blog. Gosh, I have found, or Hub has, something amazing for pains, I am still in shock over it so will let you know later.
I have friends double my age. Well, almost. And they are more fit than me. And oddly enough, do you know what they love to do? Garden. And my ex was or is a gardener and he is like someone in his late thirties. Not to look at but his physical fitness.
I hate gardening….
I like laying on the lawn, not laying the lawn.
Okay, with that image in your minds, sorry if I have given you nightmares there, I shall leave you and start to make Teens dinner. Hub went in the bath at the start of this blog and I haven’t heard a thing from him. He always falls asleep in the bath, so I better see if he is alright.
I will write one more blog before the year ends and then we have a brand new year to start. Thank you for your emails and messages asking for blogs to be written, I will get around to them in the New Year. If you have anything you would like me to write about drop me a line.
visionsforfuture@googlemail.com
Good evening dearest Bloggets.
It’s almost seven in the evening. Teen got in from work forty minutes ago, quickly ran and got changed from his uniform to his gym clothes and dashed out. He never stops.
We have had a most enjoyable day. Our friends picked us up and we went to a local pub for lunch. We sat in front of the fire, though I swear it could have been a radiator, turned off, as there was no sound of crackling, no warmth or smell coming from it. I only knew I was there because our friends said, oh let’s go and sit next to the fire. Outside you can smell the chimney, but inside? We went last week with my Brother and Sister in law, the meal wasn’t a success. So, this time we said we would have a sandwich. Well, it was delicious. Very overpriced, but really nice. I can tell you we weren’t paying for the heating… As the place isn’t warm and we are not paying a bill for the furniture, as it’s out of charity shops I’m sure. But today’s food was lovely, I had chips with my sandwich and salad, it was really really tasty. Oh, if I had a pub, it would be so lovely… Ready for this?
The place where there was a cold drinks bar would be glass and chrome then you walk through to a very cosy area with a stone floor and a proper roaring fire and really comfortable seating with lamps, heavy ones, not the kind blind people can knock over as they pass by… Not that I have any experience at doing such things, hahaha.
Well, not really!!!
And there would be a pine bar where you got teas from all over the world, coffee and hot chocolate. There would be happy people selling the food and drinks. I think from good old Newcastle, as I swear I have never been in a pub quite like the ones in Northumberland where I used to live. They were friendly, genuine too. Don’t get me wrong, the owners of this place were lovely, are lovely, the staff even try to have a laugh with us, just they try too hard, humour doesn’t come easy to some parts of our country. Such a tiny country is England and really the difference in areas is really obvious. I love living here, but miss so much the warmth and humour, not sure if intentional of the Geordies. The people where I used to live. But I’m talking older people, as the youth in my old home town sadly are losing it, they are blending in with the rest of the UK. In my day, our Dads, Grandfathers and so on were coal miners and they had such a way about them. They had their own way of talking, their humour was fantastic and there was a genuine warmth about themselves that they passed it onto the younger members of the families, but the younger members of the families became bank managers, teachers, solicitors and huge department store workers and so on, so over the generations, the pit talk humour and warmth, became weaker and eventually we are now products of diluted genes.
I love the people where I live now, I really really feel proud to be among them as they are so helpful and kind, but I so miss the old pubs, café’s and so on where I used to live. But as I said, now, will it be the same, now the youth have taken over? Possibly not, but what is the same is the country pubs you get in the wonderful Northumberland. If you are visiting England, please, head towards Northumberland. Stay for a few days, visit our castles, gardens and beaches. We have the best beaches in England, and I think the best history. We have so much greenery. The countryside is the best in the UK next to parts of Scotland. People talk about Devon, oh my. I believe people who talk about how wonderful it is there have never been to the North East.
So, this pub was, or is, OK, but the company was great. We had a laugh, my strong opinions came close to causing some kind of political outrage, but hey, a nudge from Hub,
and I didn’t stop. hahaha. I call a spoon a spoon and if people don’t like it, they can lump it. I’m entitled to my views. Well, I can’t have been that bad as we have been asked back out by them. Or was that just Hub? Hahahaha.
It was a great day. My cold is getting better, I just have a cough and a dreadful head ache but I’m sure I’m on the mend.
Our food shopping is due in half an hour or so it’s mainly party food for tomorrow night. It was my Mums tradition and I have continued that down the family, and I hope my Son will too, but we have to have a table of food on the night of New Year’s Eve and we don’t cook on New Year’s Day or put out any rubbish. So, we make sure our indoor bins are all empty before midnight. I could bore you with the reasons why, but it is a tradition I love. So tomorrow I will be baking and cooking all day.
I hope when I am writing to you this time next year, I will be buzzing with some kind of fantastic news. Some luck will come our way that will affect the rest of the world. Some success. We have hope.
I’m pleased to see that America’s next President isn’t trying to make enemies of Russia, let’s hope the horrid cold war we lived through for so long can start to warm up again? Because we got warm with them and then it all went very wrong dangerously wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand Putin, but I also hate wars and I think with the combination of Trump and our PM Mrs May, we can keep Putin calm. We all need to stand together but in our own countries minding our own business’s. Together in peace and away from war.
This time next year my Son won’t be a Teen anymore. Oh, how old does that make me? My baby will be on his way to being a man. But I will never forget how difficult it has been bringing him up. Gosh, what a challenge. Because I have my views my beliefs that are very strong and some say too moralistic, personally, I think if everyone thought like me the world would be a nicer place, hahaha. How arrogant is that? Hub asked me the other day, who made me miss perfect? I am so far from perfect, in so many ways. I just care about people and the future and so many now don’t. So many live for today and themselves.
Well, I hope you all have a very wonderful weekend. Please don’t drink if you are going to drive. No matter how much you think you are perfectly fine. It’s not worth going to jail for that one more drink. So you may have to pay a bit more for a taxi? Surely that is better than facing time in prison or losing your licence, moreover, the nightmares of the family you could leave without a parent, daughter, Son, or Grandchild. Wife, Husband or best friend. The nightmares that will haunt you forever. Just for one extra drink. Don’t think it will never happen to you.
If it were up to me I would totally ban all alcohol. It’s a drug though and sadly too many people are addicted so it’s too late some would say.
I’m so proud of my friends who have stopped smoking this year. My friend Beth and dearest Terry. And today I have learned another friend is going to stop on Monday. Amazing, if only I had your strength to get fit? I started this year so well, and what went wrong? France, our lovely holiday where Teen almost killed me off with the speed of his walking and the combination of my really not well knee. Oh, I have some news on that, I will let you know in another blog. Gosh, I have found, or Hub has, something amazing for pains, I am still in shock over it so will let you know later.
I have friends double my age. Well, almost. And they are more fit than me. And oddly enough, do you know what they love to do? Garden. And my ex was or is a gardener and he is like someone in his late thirties. Not to look at but his physical fitness.
I hate gardening….
I like laying on the lawn, not laying the lawn.
Okay, with that image in your minds, sorry if I have given you nightmares there, I shall leave you and start to make Teens dinner. Hub went in the bath at the start of this blog and I haven’t heard a thing from him. He always falls asleep in the bath, so I better see if he is alright.
I will write one more blog before the year ends and then we have a brand new year to start. Thank you for your emails and messages asking for blogs to be written, I will get around to them in the New Year. If you have anything you would like me to write about drop me a line.
visionsforfuture@googlemail.com
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