Geth and I have been away for our first ‘coming out of the pandemic’ weekend with family the last couple of days, so I’m skipping my regularly scheduled blog post for today. Very tired after a long drive!
Just a quick note that we were thrilled to meet our niece for the first time. She is adorable.
Pictures like this – with the beermats and the scratchy fabric chairs – take me right back to my childhood. There’s a particular smell in ferry bars (a combination of bar smell and sea smell?) that still exists today, but the chairs are more comfortable these days.
Tables with lips to stop your drink sliding about in rough seas are still a thing too!
I started primary school in 1989 and so there are lots of photos of me in my uniform posing with everyone I knew. This photo was taken in our kitchen the first time my grandparents visited after the school year started. However, what always catches my eye these days is the newspaper pull-out poster we had up on the wall of ‘The Storm’ (presumably the 1987 storm). I don’t recall this poster so we can’t have had it up for much longer.
Mum and Dad have had a corkboard on that wall for as long as I can remember, so maybe that’s why the ‘The Storm’ poster had to go!
May 2021 has been rubbish so far weather-wise. It’s been endless hailstorms and rain all week, and there was a tornado not far from us yesterday. I am hoping that the future part of this month will be more like May 1989:
Sunshine! And flowers! And a boat on the sea, which I still really want to be on right now!
In the meantime, I’m going to go draw some pixel boats instead. And pixel sunshine.
I’ve shared this 1989 photo before, but here it is again, because I have desperately wanted to be on the deck of a boat for the last few days.
Ferry, cruise ship, houseboat, dinghy, you name it. I just want to be out on the sea right now. I don’t remember the last time I even saw the sea in person 🙁 Maybe a trip out to Shields is overdue.
We’ve had beautiful sunshine all week here, but it’s been cold in the mornings. I’ve been thinking a lot about beaches and coves and other nice explorable coastal places (and hoping that I might actually get to go to some of them this summer!). This photo from May 1987 is where I want to be right now – watching a pretty sailboat while standing on a beach. Even a pebbly beach like you often get in this part of the world!
Mum’s funky necklace is a bonus in this picture. ’80s jewellery is the best.
Everyone has a favourite Saturday morning cartoon theme song. This is mine, and it appears on many of my Spotify playlists, including my running one. Many happy memories of cartoon-watching in childhood (funnily enough, while The Raccoons was a perfectly passable and entertaining cartoon, the theme tune was the best part!).
I used this song to test the way music works for Adventuron games earlier this week, so it currently also feels like a victory song. Jam game released tonight and I will link to it tomorrow!
I had some hip pain the other week (one of the less fun effects of increased running mileage) and so I dug out my hot water bottle with the intention of getting some nice soothing heat on the complaining muscles. I’ve had the same hot water bottle since I was about six (it lives in a ‘The Snowman’ cover) and it probably wasn’t 100% new then, so I’m guessing it’s been kicking about since the late ’80s.
It turns out that hot water bottles don’t have thirty-year-plus lifespans 🙁
Since I last used it (not sure when but it would have been years ago), the rubber has hardened to the point where it’s cracked apart. Looks like I’m going to have to replace it with a *sigh* modern one 🙁
I ended up sorting out the hip with some yoga, plus a little help from a microwaveable rice bag. I definitely prefer a hot water bottle though so will in all seriousness be on the lookout for a replacement.
