November Challenge - Write Every Day

Just a quick entry for my progress for this badge. I started writing every day back in March (I think). It was when I first got my Rebel Badge Book, and saw that there was a Diarist badge. I started keeping a Gratitude journal every day for the Mindfulness badge, and decided I wanted something else to qualify for the diarist badge. I had started the Gratitude journal previously, to help my mental health - so that I could focus on the good things around rather than the bad things that had happened (problems with neighbours really got me down from mid June 2019 until July this year - luckily we now have new neighbours). I’ve continued the Gratitude journal every day since then. I had also started a journal called Musings - and this one contains various thoughts. I’ve kept this each day (or almost every day) since March - although I can see I’ve missed a few days this year - no more than about 7 days. Anyway - to keep the Musings journal I’ve been using the daily prompt - which I try to write in the morning. However - sometimes I’m busy doing other things that end up with me forgetting the journal (I’ve started a few brain games in the past couple of weeks). There are other days when I end up writing a couple of entries in the Musings journal each day. I can confirm that the month of November has an entry each day for both the Gratitude and Musings journal.

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Critic badge - Review of an Exhibition

Being a quilter I like to go to local quilt exhibitions, as they can provide great inspiration for future projects. In August 2024 Little Stitches held an exhibition at Littleham. The group Little Stitches have been going since 2011; they meet on a Saturday at Littleham Village Hall once a month, and they have had around 50 members. They hold an exhibition fairly regularly, every 2 or 3 years - and I have attended most of them. I attended the exhibition with the young adult who lives with us, on a Sunday - the exhibition was on for just 2 days. We received a warm welcome as soon as we walked through the door - helped by knowing the member who greeted us! Coming from North Devon and being a part of the quilting community, it is becoming increasingly common to see people I recoggnise. On entering the room where the quilts were exhibited, we came across the raffle. I bought tickets - I wasn’t lucky on this occasion - but never mind, as the money raised went to North Devon Agai...

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