I am really not convinced that January is the time for a New Start...
However, I have done a little mild addressing certain matters of tidying up (I am coming around to the suspicion that Filing Things is a bit too much like That Work Thing I Have Retired From and I need to approach it in small doses).
I am in particular not entirely sure that this time of year is when to venture out seeking New Friends and Human Connection: A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day.
I do think that people have a rather false notion of some happy community time when people were much more connected and had conversations in pubs and coffee-shops and on public transport and so on, which is what the terrible owner of Sam Smiths pubs is trying to encourage by a blanket ban on electronic devices.
(I daresay people did talk in pubs, etc, but in existing groups of people they already knew and had some connection with, not with any old random person, and were probably very cliquey, even if they didn't go, 'ere's a stranger, 'eave 'arf a brick at 'im'.)
However, following this recent article apropos of the Women's Institute - I see they have corrected the initial error about the date of its founding, and various correspondents kicked up at the 'jam and jerusalem' cliche - I discovered that there is actually a (fairly) local Women's Institute. I feel I owe it to the spirit of EM Delafield to go along to at least one meeting and see what it's like. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/3025169.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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