The last day of September (day 192 of demilockdown - tougher restrictions)
Goodbye Helen Reddy - you wrote an anthem for all women, which was chosen to represent National Women's year by the UN in 1975. Still as relevant today as it ever was (under the cut "I am Woman")
In other news a newly opened Greek restaurant near me has been flouting the Covid restrictions and our local authority is now looking at getting an enforcement to close it. Apparently they have failed to allow for social distancing, been playing loud music, allowing people to dance and have been visited several times after customers complained. Much as I hate to see a business forced to close I hope they go ahead because it's a message to other businesses. It will be a permanent closure so they are Covidiots not to have complied after the first couple of warnings.
Yesterday I had art appreciation class in the morning. The subject this week was the Impressionists with a focus on Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A classically trained painter, the son of a tailor and a seamstress he had a fascination for painting people and especially including fashionable clothing. It was a really interesting lecture and I learned a lot about technique and the style of the impressionists as well as the reasons they were so vilified at the time (showing brush strokes - oh my!). Once again it was nice to see real people, and interact as a class despite having to wear masks. Adult education falls in a niche that won't be protected if a more strict lock down happens, but our teacher assured us she'd go straight online if the worst happens. *crosses fingers it doesn't*
I got back in time for lunch, after which I decided that it was a dreary day and I didn't really fancy doing much, but I sorted out some paperwork until Mr Cee finished work at 3pm and we went grocery shopping. We have a cheque to pay in from the energy company as they pay us a small amount to generate electricity with our solar panels. We got the cheque about 2 months ago, but haven't had the chance to pay it in as our building society has been open for very short hours due to the pandemic. We just missed it yesterday as it closed at 3pm so we're going to have to remember that and try again another day!
In the evening it was the last Pilates for a week as our teacher is off to a belly dance course in Turkey. It looks like the area she's going to is OK at the moment, but I think she's taking a bit of an unnecessary chance as she might get stuck there. I spent some time in the evening liaising with her and the teacher who is taking her bellydance class on Thursday so that everything is sorted out for that. Then there was The Great British Bake Off biscuit week which was fun, but I think the wrong person was told to go home at the end of it which was a shame.
Today I'm off to meet a friend at a garden centre for a coffee and a look around which I'm looking forward to. Just time for the 365 question for yesterday and today:
29 If you were your own best friend, what piece of unsolicited advice would you give yourself?
Keep calm and carry on.
30 What television sitcom is your real life most like?
Probably The Big Bang Theory as far as being geeky is concerned, but I'm so much older than all of those characters.
October's list is under the cut for anyone interested in posting for another month.
Oct
1 What was the #1 song the year you graduated from high school? Did you like the song? Do you still like it?
2 What do you like most about fall?
3 What do you think people’s first impression of you is when they meet you?
4 What’s something a lot of people seem to fear that doesn’t frighten you?
5 What are you a geek about?
6 What was your favorite thing to make-believe when you were a child?
7 Have you ever survived a natural disaster?
8 What’s the most unusual or random item in your purse, bag, or wallet?
9 Are you musically inclined? Do you sing or play an instrument?
10 Have you ever called someone the wrong name during sex or been called the wrong name by your partner?
11 What’s a form of entertainment that everyone seems to enjoy, but that you do not?
12 What three things are you most thankful for?
13 What is something you've never done but would like to try to do? Why don't you?
14 What is something you've tried but would never do again?
15 If, without being detected, you could spy electronically for the next month and watch anyone, anywhere, anytime like a fly on a wall, would you? If so, who would you watch and how closely? If not, why not?
16 If it were the only way you could remain with the love of your life, would you be willing for both of you to wake up tomorrow as native speakers of an unfamiliar language, knowing that within a week, you'd permanently forget the language(s) you now speak and largely be cut off from your friends and culture? If so, what new language would you want to speak and why?
17 If a movie were being made of your life, which actor would play the starring role?
18 Write the words that you need to hear today.
19 If you had to be obsessed with money, sex, sports, religion or food, which one would you choose?
20 What do you love most about yourself?
21 Ignoring all financial considerations, would you rather spend the next 5 years confined to an urban mecca (e.g. New York City, London, etc) or a beautiful, isolated coastal town somewhere?
22 How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?
23 What is a character trait you despise in others, but you know you also have that same trait?
24 What is the most serious law you've broken doing something you thought was morally right, wouldn't hurt anyone, or was no one's business but yours? How bad would the punishment have been if you'd been caught and given the maximum sentence?
25 If you were on a jury, would you be willing to convict a person for something you didn't think should be considered a crime?
26 If your heart were damaged beyond repair, but you could regain your health for a few more years by getting a heart transplant from a genetically engineered pig, would you?
27 What is your favorite question to ask people?
28 What stage play is your favorite?
29 For $100,000 (or equivalent in your currency) would you put on 40 pounds/18 kg and keep it on for 3 years? How much money, if any, would induce you to put on 100 pounds/45 kg for at least a year?
30 If you were president/prime minister/supreme leader etc. of your country, what is the first thing you would do?
31 What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen?
Click to viewIn other news a newly opened Greek restaurant near me has been flouting the Covid restrictions and our local authority is now looking at getting an enforcement to close it. Apparently they have failed to allow for social distancing, been playing loud music, allowing people to dance and have been visited several times after customers complained. Much as I hate to see a business forced to close I hope they go ahead because it's a message to other businesses. It will be a permanent closure so they are Covidiots not to have complied after the first couple of warnings.
Yesterday I had art appreciation class in the morning. The subject this week was the Impressionists with a focus on Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A classically trained painter, the son of a tailor and a seamstress he had a fascination for painting people and especially including fashionable clothing. It was a really interesting lecture and I learned a lot about technique and the style of the impressionists as well as the reasons they were so vilified at the time (showing brush strokes - oh my!). Once again it was nice to see real people, and interact as a class despite having to wear masks. Adult education falls in a niche that won't be protected if a more strict lock down happens, but our teacher assured us she'd go straight online if the worst happens. *crosses fingers it doesn't*
I got back in time for lunch, after which I decided that it was a dreary day and I didn't really fancy doing much, but I sorted out some paperwork until Mr Cee finished work at 3pm and we went grocery shopping. We have a cheque to pay in from the energy company as they pay us a small amount to generate electricity with our solar panels. We got the cheque about 2 months ago, but haven't had the chance to pay it in as our building society has been open for very short hours due to the pandemic. We just missed it yesterday as it closed at 3pm so we're going to have to remember that and try again another day!
In the evening it was the last Pilates for a week as our teacher is off to a belly dance course in Turkey. It looks like the area she's going to is OK at the moment, but I think she's taking a bit of an unnecessary chance as she might get stuck there. I spent some time in the evening liaising with her and the teacher who is taking her bellydance class on Thursday so that everything is sorted out for that. Then there was The Great British Bake Off biscuit week which was fun, but I think the wrong person was told to go home at the end of it which was a shame.
Today I'm off to meet a friend at a garden centre for a coffee and a look around which I'm looking forward to. Just time for the 365 question for yesterday and today:
29 If you were your own best friend, what piece of unsolicited advice would you give yourself?
Keep calm and carry on.
30 What television sitcom is your real life most like?
Probably The Big Bang Theory as far as being geeky is concerned, but I'm so much older than all of those characters.
October's list is under the cut for anyone interested in posting for another month.
Oct
1 What was the #1 song the year you graduated from high school? Did you like the song? Do you still like it?
2 What do you like most about fall?
3 What do you think people’s first impression of you is when they meet you?
4 What’s something a lot of people seem to fear that doesn’t frighten you?
5 What are you a geek about?
6 What was your favorite thing to make-believe when you were a child?
7 Have you ever survived a natural disaster?
8 What’s the most unusual or random item in your purse, bag, or wallet?
9 Are you musically inclined? Do you sing or play an instrument?
10 Have you ever called someone the wrong name during sex or been called the wrong name by your partner?
11 What’s a form of entertainment that everyone seems to enjoy, but that you do not?
12 What three things are you most thankful for?
13 What is something you've never done but would like to try to do? Why don't you?
14 What is something you've tried but would never do again?
15 If, without being detected, you could spy electronically for the next month and watch anyone, anywhere, anytime like a fly on a wall, would you? If so, who would you watch and how closely? If not, why not?
16 If it were the only way you could remain with the love of your life, would you be willing for both of you to wake up tomorrow as native speakers of an unfamiliar language, knowing that within a week, you'd permanently forget the language(s) you now speak and largely be cut off from your friends and culture? If so, what new language would you want to speak and why?
17 If a movie were being made of your life, which actor would play the starring role?
18 Write the words that you need to hear today.
19 If you had to be obsessed with money, sex, sports, religion or food, which one would you choose?
20 What do you love most about yourself?
21 Ignoring all financial considerations, would you rather spend the next 5 years confined to an urban mecca (e.g. New York City, London, etc) or a beautiful, isolated coastal town somewhere?
22 How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you deeply had been written by a computer?
23 What is a character trait you despise in others, but you know you also have that same trait?
24 What is the most serious law you've broken doing something you thought was morally right, wouldn't hurt anyone, or was no one's business but yours? How bad would the punishment have been if you'd been caught and given the maximum sentence?
25 If you were on a jury, would you be willing to convict a person for something you didn't think should be considered a crime?
26 If your heart were damaged beyond repair, but you could regain your health for a few more years by getting a heart transplant from a genetically engineered pig, would you?
27 What is your favorite question to ask people?
28 What stage play is your favorite?
29 For $100,000 (or equivalent in your currency) would you put on 40 pounds/18 kg and keep it on for 3 years? How much money, if any, would induce you to put on 100 pounds/45 kg for at least a year?
30 If you were president/prime minister/supreme leader etc. of your country, what is the first thing you would do?
31 What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen?