What I'm about

Yes this indeed is Friday, July 5th, the day after the General Election but we're not doing that today because for one thing blogs are written in advance and while I *may* have an idea how it might turn out,a full enough picture won't emerge until early afternoon so it's best left to next week.

That suits both parts of me, the little bit that's usually on its own blog and this the more groan upside this week.

A common aspect of me is I retain much of the spirit and ideals of Girl Guiding within me, that curiosity, the urge to learn new things I can use, a love of the outdoors, and helpful friendliness.

They play a major part in being me that transcends political and religious leanings, the things along the way that were issues and committing yourself to being the best version of you, you can is something I take with the utmost seriousness.

And that runs right through me, nay even the more adult things, the things I support and for that matter where I have a duty to hold to higher standards.

 

Remembrance weekend edition

 After two entries that went into current affairs

 

I enjoy a bonfire night as much as anyone but the other thing GirlGuiding is involved in around this time of year is Remembrance  which will be marked today with Armistice Day and in two days time on Remembrance Sunday.

Having taken part in Parades it has a bit of a sombre nature because we think about what men (and women) did both at home and on the battlefield to preserve the liberty, freedom and way of life we have and the sacrifice of lives given to have succeeded in it against great odds in WW2.

It is important for people, especially children to know about this so in guiding with the help of people such as the Royal British Legion, girls are taught about this as in a good number of schools they are too.

 

Here we see Guides and Brownies going to the cenotaph as many will this weekend placing their wreath upon it as a symbol of our respect and appreciation of what those people, often young gave for us and our country.

We will remember our war dead.

Thoughts on St. Georges

 

Today is St. Georges day which anyone connected with things like GirlGuiding knows is pretty important to the point you'd do things to mark it as the spirit of St. George in facing down the dragon is really what we need to achieve being the best us we can.

Before all this covid stuff kicked off Girl Guides would march and do activities to mark it such as making Owls apart from the all year round stuff like working for awards, earning badges and heck, having an adventure that they normally do.

Wouldn't you sooner be having an adventure, learning new skills and having fun with friends? I sure would!

I like going for hikes and that and while coming back the other day I noticed the daffodils were still out here so I took a picture softening the background a little. 

Today I've been tidying up some of my many classical music cds, making sure that discs just by one composer are all together and the box sets are filed by either composer if that's what the theme is or the conductor or soloist such as a pianist or violinist.

Of course those which have works by various composers are harder to file away unless there is a clear cut major work on them but generally the effort is worth it.