It’s been a funny old day for weather. It rained so hard
today, this morning, it was as if being at the beach on a stormy day, with the
teal water lashing against the grey rocks! This afternoon, I have had to come
in as it’s so hot I’m burning.
Our dogs have been for a free run and they loved it. My Son
has been at work, sadly he was meant to go out with his friends tonight, but he
has chosen once again to see his beloved Shamrock.
I have been in the garden cutting or is it called pruning,
smile, God help our shrubs and roses now. Hub has been fighting with the hose.
Or, watering the plants.
I have made my simple leek pie for dinner. Sounds gross but
is really scrumptious. I have told you about it before. Cook chopped leeks in
butter. Put in a oven dish. Then pour over two cans of baked beans in tomato
sauce. Then add cheese. Then loads of buttery mash potatoes with grated cheese
and today I fried an onion after the leeks and mixed that in with the mash. Then
after seasoning with salt and pepper, put it in the oven for 35 minutes. I make
loads and oddly, it’s always better the next day.
We went to our friend’s house last night. It shocks me just
how many people drink so much alcohol. I was saying that if the Government made
it so buying it for home went up by 50% and to buy out and about, it increased
by 40% and brought the cost of activities and swimming pools, gym membership
and other things that young people could perhaps get into such as ten pin
bowling and there were classes to do more art and woodwork, pottery and perhaps
cookery classes then in the long run,, it would save our country thousands if
not millions because surely there would be no such thing as diabetes because
there would be fewer people overweight and especially if they increased a pack
of cigarettes by 50%? Also, it’s a fact that exercise helps to lessen
depression.
Whilst I was putting the world right in my opinion, I said
it’s awful for parents who work to find childcare in the summer holidays too. I
mean between 6 and 7 weeks of holiday for our kids in the summer can be a nightmare.
What happens is, when our kids get to about 11, parents leave them thinking
they are safe in the house. My Son always had me at home and the amount of his
friends who used to joke saying their Mum thought they were at home, but in
fact they had been at my house and many other places where the parents were
totally oblivious to. They just made sure they were home before their parents
came home. more kids bored getting into trouble. So, in the 6-week holiday,
keep the schools open. Get checked volunteers to come in or even payed professionals
who charges the parents so much per day, and it would be much less than
childcare, because there were a lot of children. Academies to learn to play
football, cricket, tennis, arts and crafts and so on. So, school would be fun
for the summer, even things like horse riding or swimming as there are schools
with pools. Most children go to schools not far from where they live and a lot
of them over nine, walk there on their own. So, no stress for parents having to
even find transport. Some teachers would be paid to supervise. So, the kids
would get hooked into sports or other hobbies and it would continue after
school when they were much older. It would be like a way of life. Rather than
the drink culture that is an epidemic in our country right now and has been for
years. And for those reading this who are saying oh no to the increase of alcohol,
well, why are you saying this? Is it because you can’t think of a weekend or
even night, without your alcohol? If so, well, your health will suffer in the
future, do you really want this for your children? What would you rather say to
your colleagues or friends, oh, my Son is out drinking, or, he is playing
cricket. My daughter couldn’t get out of bed on Sunday, she was hungover, or,
my daughter spent the weekend cooking with her friends and then had a great
time comparing one an others dishes, or our kids went camping at the weekend
and took guitars and ball games.
Hub and I went to our local shop to buy mushrooms.
Strawberry’s, and bread. What did we come back with? Salmon steaks and crisps.
Yep, the dreaded C word. Tomorrow though
I’m going to stop eating bread again and then I will follow by crisps. We were
saying we would love to go swimming, but for those who can’t see it’s so hard.
We are always afraid to bump into anyone, mind you, the way I swim, they won’t
get hurt, I’m like a log battling against the tide, I seem to almost kill
myself heart pumping as if I have ran a marathon and I get nowhere. My friend
JB is as I always say, amazing, she goes at sixish in the morning before people
get there, but she lives next to the pool, we are far from the one I want to go
to, there is a one near us but again it would require a taxi and before seven
in the morning the taxi would be about £12 there and back. Then it’s at least
£10 to swim, see what I mean? But we can go out and buy bottles of beer and a
bottle of wine and come back with change of that same amount.
Right I shall go for now the start of the week begins here
and I hope yours is a good one. At least better than last weeks, but not as
good as next week. Xx
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