Wednesday Medley - 29/10/19

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1. During Red Ribbon Week a red ribbon or rubbery silicon bracelet is worn to remind others to live drug free lives and honor the sacrifices of all those who've have lost their lives fighting the war against illegal drugs.
Do you have family members or loved ones in law enforcement? Wearing any memorial ribbons or bracelets?

I don't have anyone who works in law enforcement and fortunately I haven't lost any loved ones in this way. 
2. There isn't an International Day for October 30th.
What is your suggestion for a new national or international day?

I'm not sure I could come up with anything worthy of its own day.  There are so many daft ones out there already I wouldn't want to add to them. 
3. On this date in 1938, Orson Welles performed his radio play of H. G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds. Some people understood it to be an actual news broadcast of a Martian attack though there were disclaimers throughout the show.
Have you witnessed an example of people behaving to the contrary in spite of warnings?
No but I was watching something on TV today about how people don't follow the safety instructions for example putting on life jackets when told to. Bonus question: Did you listen to or do you stream radio shows? Listen to books or prefer reading?
I usually only listen to the radio in the car and I prefer reading books than listening to them. 
4. Happy 80th Birthday, Grace Slick!

She sang with psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane and later reincarnations Jefferson Starship and Starship.

All rock 'n' rollers over the age of fifty look stupid and should retire. — Grace Slick.

Is pop music solely the domain of younger artists?

I think the Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart (and many others) would disagree.
5. Tomorrow is Halloween. Any fond memories of Trick Or Treating or escorting little ones while they made the rounds? Favorite costume?

Trick or treat wasn't really a thing here in the UK when I was growing up or even when my kids were young.  It seems to be getting bigger each year now though. 
Bonus question: As an adult, have you attended a Halloween party or fancy-dress ball? Sexy? Or spooky?

No. 

6. Please share with us something interesting about your week.

I will probably be a bit Bah Humbug on halloween.  Keep the front lights off and pretend to be out. 

It's nearly Winter!

Last night our clocks went back.  Today it was dark by 5.30 and it that will gradually get earlier and earlier.  It's definitely been colder the last couple of days and tonight we may get our first frost.

Yesterday I posted about dresses for weddings.  (Thanks for all the lovely comments.)  Today I'm in my comfy attire of jogging bottoms and a warm top.  Catching up on TV.  

We had a busy evening yesterday babysitting Nathan.  Every time we see him lately he is talking more and more.  He was lovely with us last night.  He didn't make any fuss when his Mummies went out.  We had fun in the bath.  He let me give him both his inhalers with no problems.  (He's had a cough the last couple of weeks.)  We cleaned his teeth and then we settled down to read some stories.  I'd read him a couple and was going to read some more but he told me "No Nanny.  I go sleep now."  

And he did fairly quickly.  But then just as I tried to creep out of the bedroom he sat up looking wide awake.  My heart sank as I envisiged it taking a long time to get him back to sleep but actually he went off again quite quickly.  I managed to escape and he was still asleep when his Mummies came home.  Job done!  (Of course he woke up soon after - he seems to have a 6th sense of when they get home lol)

The darkness outside makes it easier to justify snuggling up on the sofa with my laptop and the TV and when you have this

 

who cares if it's dark outside?

Birthday cake from my DIL.  I don't know what the bakery call it but I think it should be Death by Chocolate!

#SoCS - 25/10/19 - Dress

Welcome to the new SoCS badge.  Isn't it a great picture?  Congratulations to Shelley who won the latest badge competition.

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “dress”  Use it anyway you want.
Have fun!

#SoCS is hosted by Linda G. Hill - check out her site here for details and participants. 

I am not known for wearing dresses.  Or even smart clothes really.  I prefer jeans and comfy tops.  Nothing fancy or frilly.  My priority is comfort.

But of course there are times when smart dress is required.  Obviously I had a work wardrobe which did contain a few dresses but also a lot of trousers.  Much more practical when dealing with emergency situations.  (I was a school Business Manager which included being responsible for Health & Safety.  Rushing around the school in a dress and heels wasn't my idea of fun - trousers and flats were more my uniform.)

Yesterday's prompt of  "dress" was rather apt as it was my daughter's 4th wedding anniversary.  As the Mother of the Bride at the wedding a dress was almost compulsory!  But tricky.  It was only a year since I'd been the Mother of the Groom at my son's wedding.

 
Finding another bridal dress was proving harder the 2nd time around.  The designer I'd favoured before had updated their range but it still felt too similar so I was still looking for something different and finding nothing.

Then we went on holiday.  To Wales.  And I stumbled across a very small bridal shop that had what could only be described as "Mother of the Bride" dresses.  But it was CLOSED!  Fortunately it reopened before we left to come home and I found THE dress. (And matching jacket.)

But if my search for a dress was hard don't even get me started on the wedding dress. 

(And the following year I had to do it all over again for my other son!)

Friday's Fave Five - 25/10/19

It's Friday so it's time to share 5 things I'm grateful for this week. This meme is hosted by Susanne over at Living to Tell the Story. Pop over there for more details and to see who else is taking part.

1)  Wow I'm here 2 weeks running and it's not even approaching midnight! I'm thankful for being a bit more organised this week and making time for blogging.

2)  A lovely (but hectic) weekend with all the Grandkids.  We saw all of them last weekend which was great.  We even babysat the two youngest ones together and survived.  (See here for details if you missed that post.) I also visited Rory during the week. 

3)  Being kind to myself.  I've been fighting some sort of throat/chest virus for a few weeks now.  Went from having one of those horrible tickly non-productive coughs to the opposite extreme.  Although it hasn't been that bad it did leave me feeling quite low and not very enthused about anything.  This week I've just accepted that I needed to rest and recharge my batteries and not worry about the To Do list or anything else really.  Fortunately it's been half-term here so I didn't have to look after Rory (Mummy is a teacher) and I've caught up on lots of TV I'd recorded and read several books.

4)  Feeling better.  I am feeling a lot better the last day or so and all the blood tests I had done at the beginning of the month were all okay.  Now I just need to work on lowering my blood pressure a bit.  I'd like to get out and do some walking but all we seem to be getting is rain and more rain!  There are flood warnings out for the weekend in the UK but not where I live fortunately - another thing to be grateful for.

5)  The supportive blogging community.  I know that crops up here time and again but I really do appreciate people taking the time to visit my blog and leave comments.  It means I'm not sitting here in a void!

And a bonus one today - it's my daughter's 4th wedding anniversary - where does the time go?

Have a good weekend all.