Starting is Easy. Continuing is Hard......

Day 6 Dry January 2021


Afternoon Everyone, lunchtime already, how did that happen?

I did my usual 5am wake up & remembered the weirdest dream. I was doing a 'Live' for a 'Mum's Group' & my contact had asked me to do it from a glass house in a park (something similar to the Greenhouses in Q Gardens - a big thing full of tropical plants) Anyhow, I started filming to this new audience from my mobile phone & the next thing I know this man dressed in a gorilla's outfit came & sat right next to me! A bit too close & it all felt a bit too weird, so I got up & moved to sit somewhere else so that I could continue my 'live' & next to me the gorilla sat again!!!! This happened about 4 times before I woke up in a hot sweat thinking what could all of that mean???? it really was a bit strange.

I digress.....

So how are you all? How are you notebooks going?

Have any of you got 'the Boing' yet? I do hope so - we're all different but it usually happens around Day 6 or 7 - if it hasn't, it will, worry not my friends.

Time fillers here are some ideas for you: Boxsets, Netflix, Prime, Sky Go, BBC iPlayer - I use someone else's Sky Go & Prime. Others have the log in to my Netflix - ask your Tribe if you can use their logins - adds to your watching landscape. I can highly recommend Bridgton on Netflix - the Duke of Hastings is very pleasing to the eye!! The Gentlemen which is a film on Prime - very good - Hugh Grant as you've never seen him before & my all time fave Michael McConaughey (scrumptious!!)

More fillers: Online crosswords, jigsaws, sudoku check them out. Virtual Tours of Museums, Art Galleries, Stately Homes they all do them & most of them are free when you sign up for their newsletter. Have a look at the Open University they have loads of free online courses - well worth a look. Online Yoga & other fitness. Make sure you get out in the fresh air but stay safe.

If you haven't signed up to Martin Lewis' weekly newsletter please do www.moneysavingexpert.com it's full of useful money stuff, household things, what's available financially, well being, mental health etc well worth a read. He is a saint.

Lockdown can be very lonely - contact your Tribe (friends & family) check in with them - go on give them a call.

Have you planned your dinner tonight? what are you going to drink - have you tried any lush drinks yet? let me know.

Have a good rest of the day & be kind to yourself - take every minute, hour, day at a time. Remember you are doing this for you & only YOU.....

 Starting is Easy. Continuing is Hard.


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