A General Ramble

 It's been a dog's age since I updated this blog. Naughty me. A lazy old thing, aren't I. Here are are, hurtling through December already, and the year seems to have flown by.

I'd love to be able to report that 2019 has been a great year but it hasn't. The last twelve months weren't catastrophic either, so I should be glad for that. No, it has been a mundane year, an ordinary period during when I've been busy at work, travelled around a bit but not anything like as much as I'd have liked, and generally getting on with the ordinary business of day-to-day living. We're continually bombarded with the idea that in order to be successful we are all supposed to be continually ultra happy, continually earning and spending  vast sums of money, with a million smiling friends, an endless supply of new clothes purchased for  exotic locations and glamorous nights.   All this, and with a cherry on top.

Life is not one long party, and so if you're reading this while feeling that everyone on social networks has a much better life than you, know that you're not alone. It's a recognised phenomena largely caused by lies, exaggeration, use of Photoshop, and the careful editing of the actual reality of peoples' lives.

I've been decorating my kitchen. Maybe I should find a photo of a fabulous kitchen and pretend that this really is a photo of my kitchen then you'd all be thinking, "Wow, what a fab kitchen she has, lucky cow!" But no, I'll be honest. My kitchen is standing-room-for-one only. It's a nice kitchen, but it's not a Wow! kitchen. Some poor souls don't even have a kitchen, just a cardboard box in a doorway...