Reposted from comments - first post from Ann

Ok, the hard ones,,,,,,,,, what a family I have, always stretching my competence, I just about think I have got something sorted and there you go again... 'Just starting a communal blog'.... great...! But how to use it? First time to actually get to read it, then sort out how to access it, then what to say??? Anyway, I hope I have actually now writ something wot you can access.What am I doing, (apart from getting up in the middle of the night with sicky dogs)? Well, thanks to Myles, (another interfering relative) I sorted out lots of writing stuff I did, for years past in some cases. Then I thought, well some of it is not so purile as some things I have read from the library. Perhaps I can 'turn it into MONEY'? After all, it is doing no one any good sitting in a file. So editing, re-reading. Writers and Artists Year book. Then into this slot the art class which I promised a neighbour I would support at which I excelled in being totally incompetent, but then I realise my 'skill' will encourage the other members. No one will be able to touch me. (I admit I am encouraged by the recent realisation that I can write reasonable English). Apart from that, I have been talking to people. There is something about me, I clearly have a flag on top of my head reading, you can talk to this person. So, in the last week one man I know slightly from dog walking has bent my ear about one problem, another I had never met previously ended up telling me about the depression he had been coping with, and yesterday someone who has had severe depression and not left her house for two years, yes, you guessed it, she talked to me. Well, I may sound negative about it, but I recognise the total isolation which so many people suffer from. Once they could, especially men, go down the pub and see a friend, or go to the W.I. maybe or church. Now with fracturing societies, and people locked into their computers or tv watching, isolation is rife. Not a problem I have, particularly as the monsters greet everyone with a smile and a wag and suddenly we are all friends. So, I am grateful that quite a bit of my time is spent actually not saying much just listening. And yes I do realise I have the reputation of talking the proverbial....Incidentally of course, I don't recognise all the names which came up earlier and which I have now lost contact with, but which will no doubt surface some time in the future....... there was me and can't remember.........might be a good idea to know who it is.......Apologies it took so long to reply,,,,,,, but there you go, I never attempted to be (totally) perfect!!!
11 September 2008 12:26