Drifting through life

I'm joining in again today with Toni's "a....is for" meme I don't have a theme for this meme, I'm just choosing random ideas that float through my head for each letter. Today's letter is E. e...is for exercise. Because I do too much standing, followed by too much sitting, (let's not mention the heavy lifting of tons of groceries) an old back injury has become aggravated and I have much stiffness and quite a lot of pain from it. My doctor has recommended e xercise.  I take this to mean I should get up off my bum and actually move around once in a while. Since I'm looking more like this........ ...when I'd rather look like this, I think it's time to follow doctors orders. I've told myself to e xercise, I've tried walking more, but that has only made the back and legs ache more than before. So I'm going to go swimming* instead. Water e xercise is more gentle on muscles that aren't used to moving ...

Joining up again today with Toni  in her A-Z, a.....is for series, today's letter is C . And C is for......... C-foods. Years ago someone came up with the Seafood Diet, which is supposed to be mainly anything that comes out of the sea . Well, I've seen what's in our oceans lately,  rusting old ships,  dead people wearing concrete boots, , floating islands of plastic trash..... and I don't think any of that is appetising at all. Soon enough Sea Food became See Food - Eat Food, (any food) then someone somewhere made a list of  C foods that would keep any dietician happy. C abbage, C arrots, C elery, C apsicum, mini C apsicums are great, this one is a C hocolate C apsicum, quite sweet, but not actually chocolate flavoured. I made my own list of C-Foods, truly a dietician's nightmare. C hocolate. C hocolate cake C aramel C andy and so on. The list was quite long, but I didn't use it as a diet sheet.....really, I didn't and le...

I'm joining in again with Toni from ChickChat in her weekly A-Z meme. b is for boxes. Boxes . I love them. They come in all shapes and sizes. Some empty, some pre-filled, mmmm chocolates..... When I was very small, hat boxes were a common sight on the shelf of many a woman's wardrobe. These held the "best" hat, the one brought out on Sundays to wear to church, or maybe to wear to a wedding. The beginning of the year brought boxes that held new school shoes. When we moved house, as we did so often, boxes were begged from friends or from shops that had empty ones after delivery of their goods and we would fill them with our books and toys . Years later my own children had large toyboxes for their toys and when we moved these were simply closed, locked and loaded onto a truck, no repacking necessary. Back in the 1990s, I worked in a shoe factory, where one of my jobs was to inspect the finished pairs of shoes and pack them into their shoe ...