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further than books 📚 and word of mouth 👄...

This is bountiful in beauty... Though I sometimes miss some of the things destroyed... The touch and feel of memories bathe in much prompt of inspiration ...

Today is the traditional pudding memory Lane ...  not necessary just my culture either ... Sacha torte purchased in Knightsbridge... delicious and delectable .... 

The three best bakers in time here, there in Harrods and my home town in Kernow ... 

...and the most succulent Apple pie and chocolate cake beyond all I have ever tasted ... that our own paternal Granny home baked every time we visited. We had an abundance of goodies laid on. I have never not tasted Apple pie quite like that ever or since!!!! 

Repeatedly asked

at the bus 🚌 stop ✋ ... this week ... what buses are what .... the illusion I knew more than the young person who knew more than me actually ... that happens a lot ... I am usually the one confirming .... The silent reassurance... especially in the first days ... 

And this week I can only manage myself in small steps oblivious to much around ... I was looking at the bus 🚌 timetable myself making sure it was going the right way being a diversion circular 💧  ... not a two way road route ... 

I have two bus routes I am familiar with the 477 and the 233 .... I will need to know the other routes for back up, the 477 being unreliable ....

The 233 has thrice as many 🚌  as the 477 ... and regular as clockwork usually .... 

And a few tips picked up along the way... for the same price as a day return you can get a day pass ... hopping on and off as many times which I have done in 🎯ford, the hospital and then Blue Water ... and all in between ... 

The 233 is even less inexpensive being able to use the Oyster card ... Sidcup Eltham and via routes my daughter taken me to get to Bexleyheath and Crayford I think  ... 

I too have been times to get somewhere on that route in time on own in good mood attempts too. A very familiar route by car 🚗 once ... 

I used to work in Blackheath a long while ago ... too using a car provided ... 

Those were my wee confidence days before my personality perspective altered ... 

Sibling Rivalry

advice from a sister about my new social media skills to come on those many platforms  .... she saying how many she got! I didn't have the heart to tell her I belong to a closed group too and there are actually more members in friends in one swipe of joining the fold...! 

And that word is a bit better than friends ... when many are passing at times in acquaintance.... There is much to bring back a smile .! 

Stats in Facts

a time in learning communications again ... getting 200+ emails a day. The connections made, having 1000+ friends .. Thesec are by no means just the young. Only getting 21followers from this volume of people shows the true meaning of friends ... 

By the way my Facebook portfolio is I think Eight!!! I do have one group of acquaintances consisting of 70+

The other eight are all family! I could have had a friend friend of late hubbys in a time when I was struggling and only using it for ease of connecting my accounts of interest ... in setting up a new system in life of virtual ...

. I have kept it in check along with not getting beyond thyself  ... 

The banes ...

to gains and advantage from the cons of the Virtual world... several accounts have been updating their web site designs or changed the T&Cs or improving general access or what have you over the time ... 

This meant that some of the gifts cards I registered in that process became gobbly gook. I had them resent and gained in the process... 

I still have the Doctors surgery one to understand  ...

... All a learning curve in this surreal time ... The advantages far out weigh it all...

Attention to Detail ...

... today the stock rotation not good in the store. There are those of us who delve for the good dates. Therefore one has to be up to speed. The fact I am interested in this again, is not lost on me. 

Any this saved stretching to the back, when in mind to remember, and not elsewhere! The negating of shops this time of year. The seasonal stock swelling in the normality. The timing of an evening before the stock pallets sail out more. The online shopping trolleys. Those who study the labels on stock and all manner of obstacles in the way of the products required.

Those apologetic in bumping in, or in the way. The turn of a customer today really studying some condensed milk. 

... A product well used in those family times passed down. And synonymous in those school lessons too ... 

... And a look see where it is placed now for a future recipe maybe, since the recent store revamp..

One of the many in stock items I used to have ... 

The Oyster Card

a feature in a Dr Who episode.

It has been of great assistance to my travel. I have not used it yet, in the complicated way to get to some places .. And when I book travel online it is easier to not faff about with it. 

... That reminds me I need to top it up . ... you can use contactless card . I prefer to have a separate card to combat confusion ... I will be using it again shortly ...

Only this year did it extend to my town, The old zone being  just one stop short!  ...

The sad in part

of the very first visit back to Cornwall. A bittersweet time in much change seeing the different facade of an area familiar but different. 

My Sunday school church was now knocked down. An empty space soon to be built on no doubt. I stood at the gate overlooking this space, that very first time on a tour of town and remembered how the corridors leading off the stage and around seemed endless when younger. The performances and parties for the community to share. The kitchen out of bounds until of an age to assist. The room in teaching and study behind the stage. The services at the front... it was a modern church. Their were no pews. 

The school church is still standing in its original facade. It now houses the local undertakers very recently they moved in. Again school services mixed with the Guide parades were held in my memory in this town of long time no see then. The carol services and our annual Nativity seasons. It was ornate, it had an openess with an upper floor with beautiful features. The Windows were floor to ceiling behind this. This had modern pews. 

The other traditional style town church which is older than the others attended again in the Brownie, Guide, Ranger and Young Leader capacity is still going strong. It was last attended with Hubby in tow. 

And these are not the only churches. The one where my Dad is now. The other villages lived.  And the area where Mum and Dad were married and we were christened. 

Then on my doorstep for a while was the Brompton Oratory. Then the Victorian and Albert Museum and the most filmed National History museum ... all those beautiful buildings still standing, used and enjoyed by millions ...  

I was spoilt in that time living in such an area of London where much was in walking distance ... and the choice... wow ...