It's been a while

Dear Ella,

Sorry, it's been a while, my mojo has been lying low, listless and inert, not attractive!   Despite firm talkings too and flashes of get up and go - I have not got up and gone, but rather limped along.  All rather pathetic and first world centric.  If I was still at school, no doubt my report would read (as they always did), "could do better"!  So I will do better and am gearing up for an Autumn of getting stuff done and being out and about.

This will include:

• Returning your sister to university, handing her back to the Welsh and all things student.  Good luck Cardiff!
• Learning to fly solo again - and remembering that fruit bowls can be used for other things than fruit - junk mail as I remember from last year
• More singing - despite zero improvement in my singing ability, and at times child like giggling fits - I did not get thrown out of choir last year, so will be returning to puzzle over more musical notes on lines that mean nothing to me at all.  Bristol - hold onto your ears on Thursday evenings!
• A new hobby - outdoor swimming - and no wetsuits involved.  I am going to toughen up and no longer be the person who gingerly hops around at the waters edge taking ages to get in - only to jump straight back out.  (Ice bucket challenge on Sunday was not a great start!)  Look out for me ploughing up and down the Bristol Lido at 7.30 am on dark winter mornings - really…….
• Trailing up and down mountains behind U Bob - scaring the living daylights out of myself and possibly those immediately behind me.  Never have I my arms and legs ached so much and my heart raced so fast - as last November in Snowdonia - and I am going back for more.
• More and more walking, as I continue to blindly put one foot in front of the other and - well just walk.  Miles and miles - to work, home from work, to friends, to the shops, to your tree, round the harbour, through Ashton Court - anywhere.  Just keep walking - remains my mantra - it helps.
• Completing or starting my new years resolutions - think Pensions, Pelvic Floors and Birthday Cards - a heady combo…….still useless at sending cards on time if at all - and as for the other two - don't even go there, but "tidying up" must be done.  It's mid life junk - wont bore you with anymore details.

So a starter for ten - and as I always say - "on we go"

Lots of love

Mum

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