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 album

The album I’ve chosen to review by George Ezra - Staying at Tamara’s. I’m a bit late to the party as far as George Ezra is concerned. I knew that I would enjoy at least one of his songs, as it is one that I heard several times whilst chaperoning our local youth theatre show, and is a song that always makes me feel good - reminding me of happy times and the camaraderie of the group - how it was then (it is just as good now, but different!). The album is in general a feel good album - I’d happily listen to it on car journeys. Certainly the first five songs are quite bouncy - and have what I would call the ‘George Ezra vibe’. The feature that comes through in the first song is that lovely deep round sounding voice - I suppose some people may call it a dark brown chocolate voice. It sounds so rich - and reminds me of Rick Astley’s sound. Although the first five songs sound bouncy, there are some darker undertones - talk of anxiety, certain words that prompt some deeper thinking. It surpris...

Craft badge complete - with Weaving

Trying to to a write up more regularly now. It isn’t so easy when I’m also doing other work - which also counts towards other badges. Anyway - this is about the Craft badge. You may remember that I did a needle-felted robin earlier in the year, and then I posted about the other three clauses I had completed - patchwork, appliqué and quilting. Last week (or maybe the week before) I decided to finish a piece of weaving that I had started at a class I did a little earlier in the year. I had attended a workshop in a local shop, where we were provided with a wooden frame of about 20cm square (or 8 inches), we got to bang the nails in ourselves, and we were given some other tools to keep as well - a plastic fork, a piece of dowel (useful for making loops), a smooth piece of batten (to help lift up the threads) and a wooden skewer (useful for smaller loops, and also for hanging. I’ve liked the idea of weaving for some time, and when you know the basics, it is easy. I remember doing it i...

Critic badge 1 - Dreamboats and Petticoats Bringing On Back The Good Times

Some of my earliest memories of listening to music are of being in the kitchen while my mum listened to Pick of the Pops (which often had 60’s music on it, being the late 70’s and early 80’s), and to Sounds of the Sixties. I continued to listen to Radio 2 in my teens, 20’s and 30’s - and still listen to it now. With the title including Bringing On Back The Good Times I knew that this show would have a good selection of music in it. I went to see the show yesterday afternoon, at Queen’s Theatre, Barnstaple (Saturday 9th April 2022). I haven’t seen any of the previous Dreamboats and Petticoats musicals, so didn’t know quite what to expect. We possibly wouldn’t have come to see this show had it not been for the special offer on the tickets; however, an opportunity to see a show when the tickets were £15 each was too good an opportunity to miss. We were able to get seats quite near the front and in the middle of a row. What a fantastic show this is! People who like t...

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