Mother's day

 As we leave March, I am reflecting on the number of anniversaries that in my muddled up family have this month and a common denominator.

Behind all of them are Mothers, some older, some younger, some experiencing health challenges, being wives to partners and  mothers to children  in role that while changing never really goes.

Nor is just those developmental milestones that she plays a big part in, it's your hobbies and interests, from helping with craft kits to feeding your first pet on the day you forgot all about it and reminding you you too have to be a Mom to your pet who is dependent on you.

That you have to put down what you're doing that second and even be prepared to put yourself last in the execution of.

To Moms everywhere, this Mothering Sunday gone Happy Mother's Day and thanks for everything you do.

Time to restore past lessons?

It's been a warm weekend out as I ditched a thicker coat for a thinner jacket which was just waterproof for showers if needed and dropped a layer off in the sun or indoors.

In so far as food goes it doesn't really alter what I eat around midday as that's meat salads unless I'm going out to lunch which don't take a long time to prepare unless you really want to go to town with it, hard boiling eggs by saucepan full and making your own dips.

I do sometimes thing in our quest to both increase employment opportunities for all and avoid gender based biases in children's education we lost track of the importance of Home Economics, learning basic cooking and hygiene or learning how to mend and clean clothes together with how to run a home.

Rather than seeing it something everyone should learn, we seemed to take the view it was a lesser option forced on girls that needed to go.

It shouldn't surprise us the number of people who do not know how to prepare a meal from fresh ingredients and would be lost without a ready meal because we're at least a couple of generations loss from learning and using those skills on a everyday basis.

Equally much clothing is tossed aside that could easily be repaired and given a second life. 

Perhaps it's time to rethink just what we do teach given that for most you don't leave education until you're eighteen today unlike in the past.

Being...that girl

Greetings from Kitty Towers.

 You can be the cutest girl around.

 You may work helping people in need such as in the medical fields.

 You might be balancing being a Mom and having a job.

 You might be a sports girl or woman punching your way through the glass ceiling.

You are whatever your age a part of a family as a girl working together as a team looking after each other.

You're a girl whatever you do, what ever roles you play and no matter how you present.

Around the sun 2022 style

 

Okay so I've had a birthday although a few things remain messed up after these last two year like ones family and any kind of going out is likely to be later on in the week as work continues on refitting one place we like to go.

There was a Tumblr card and message from my BFF.

Anyway given how this thing is with me it was entirely fitting that one neighbour bought me a bar of chocolate cos I really don't have any inclination toward anything specifically adult or interests even.

One thing I did get which goes back a few years for inspiration was a very special four cd and dvd set of the classic Elton John album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road that came out in 2014 which probably contains the highest amount per album of his best ever work including beyond the title track to take in Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, Bennie and the Jets and Candle In The Wind.

I was a bit strapped for cash in that period so I bought a two cd "deluxe edition" that had the whole album plus on a second disc some remakes of the songs by today's artists such as The Band Perry and a selection from a live recording made at the Hammersmith Odeon in December of 1973 that was broadcast on the radio.

Really it was this set I wanted which give you alternative mixes and non album tracks used on the singles, the whole concert in its two halves and a dvd with surround sound mixes couples with a 100 page book.

I was very fortunate to have it bought for me from a store that still had a copy in.

 Similarly my original Blu Ray of this anime tended to make some funny noises while it played due to some fault in how the film was written onto the disc so the blu ray player can play it so I got a much recent copy that also includes the dvd which didn't have this issue included.

While somethings do alter a paper based mini encyclopedia can help not just when it comes to avoiding going down rabbit holes searching for the very thing you do want, help with spending less time looking at the screen but help in recalling "facts" that given how when I'm ill I lose track of with the impact on my memory without the issues that screens have.

While something things change many do not and this will help.

There was some stocking filler things such as underwear and new socks and a new navy blue skirt too plus some money to cover things from Amazon and of CatBay tm.