College?

What colleges have you attended?

Dear Reader

Please don’t think me ignorant nor completely devoid of intelligence when I tell you the college I attended was the College of Life.

When I left school I had a choice find a job or, oh that was my choice. I didn’t have a parent who would see me through college. So I learnt on my own. Like millions of other people before and after me.

Since the wheelchair became a part of my life I have gained many diplomas, and am entitled to carry many letters after my name. Just to prove to myself I could do it.

So my dear reader the college I had to enrol in at 16 served me well. I shall carry the banner with pride.

This day and age with government funding it is more advisable to attend a regular college .

Just to add I am UK 🇬🇧 based

Take cate

Your Friend

Kim-Louise

Oye Oye Hear My Words

Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech?

I was born to perform, not as an actress, oh no I would never remember my lines, moves or cue. But all the worlds a stage my darlings and every day is a new part, a new start.

Dear Readers

So back to the prompt of the day have I ever performed on eirkllllstage or given a speech? It pleases me to say yes to the first and in a roundabout way yes to the second.

As a teenagera I was involved in amateur dramatics with the YFC and performed in competitions regionally, we reached the semi finals one year and I was so proud of our club. We h me o act and sing and of course dress up, well actually dress down that time as we sang our way through old London Town. We Rolled out the Barrel we had a Barrel of fun and carried on with My Old Man, said follow the van and don’t dilly dally on the way. Our play was a Pearly Kings & Queens London , with the old time music hall songs.

(YFC was the Young farmers club)

Then years later I started reading poetry , my own work to open spiritual evenings .

My proudest moment in the oratory world was being asked by the local DAA to be their show host for an awareness event. introducing the acts, keeping the audience entertained and even having my chance to read my own work . and give a step toward publishing it.

(DAA dementia action alliance)

Yes I have many times stood in front of group of people for many reasons and spoken aloud work and other matters and I enjoyed it .

Little secret I don’t think I needed the microphone 😁

Have a wonderful day, evening or night till we meet again

Kim Louise

Please remember this was pre 1965 so no remarks about sexism

And So I 😂😊😂

How often do you walk or run?

Dear Friends

I am sending you all a bucket of smiles because I just made an extra batch of 😊 and I shall tell you why.

Todays prompt made me smile then laugh because as if walking wasn’t hard enough, running 🏃‍♀️!! The only running I do is when I turn on the sink taps to run the water 💦.

My wheelchair and I have a pact I sit still and it won’t run out on me. it works very well.

As much as my body is in limp mode my brain is not and that is what keeps me going.

Everyone don’t stress, do what you are good at, and let the world 🌎 do what it does and that is, keep turning.

So have a great day and if it doesn’t feel great at the moment do something to make it a memorable day.

Keep that Smile it suits you

Regards

Kim

The Evening of a Dis-Abled Diva

What are you doing this evening?

Hello again, I hope you all are well? Isn’t time passing quickly? No, you are correct it is travelling at the same speed it always has 60 seconds = 1 minute, etc maybe it’s just the nights are drawing in, therefore the evenings now are darker quicker and thoughts are turning to autumn, hot chocolate and toasted sandwiches. But for now

What will I be be doing this evening, well I shall probably fall asleep about 5pm because that’s what my condition does to me only for about an hour then the dogs will wake me to be fed. Stagger to the kitchen feed them, look at the fridge and realise I don’t have the energy to feed myself, shuffle back to the front room sit back down and do some writing, watch TV for a short while. The little dog barks at the tv non stop. It will only just after 9pm 🕘 and I will do what I always do give up on the tv and go to bed so I can read my book in peace. I always have that choice writing , tv or reading occasionally I might listen to music 🎶 but tonight I would like to finish my book

It might seem a little boring even mundane but it suits me and is much better than being married to an abusive man and every evening living in fear sat on the edge of the chair waiting. That has gone in the past thank goodness now I do as I want.

My nest is empty, children grown. Time for me at last

Bye for now

Kim

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. …

Red Flag 🚩 Run

What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?

We humans are a funny lot, we talk in riddles, gestures, and rarely say exactly what I’m m

So my top Red Flag 🚩 at the moment has to be the person that won’t talk about themselves at all. No details like where they live, just general area. Or what job not where but just what job. Do you have children avoids the question. 9 times out of 10 that person is probably married, the flag is nearly everyone will say I I live in the …………area. Oh I’m tired from work it’s hectic but I love doing …….. it’s my dream job.

I have been bitten twice by these type of people and all I can say is never again I can actually sense them a lot better now

lol

“ If you ignore the red flags, embrace the heartache to come.”

Pen, Paper,Imagination & Voila

What brings you peace?

Years ago when knights were bold, and ladies knew how to behave, my children would ask “Mum what do you want for a present 🎁 “ my response never wavered “A cup of peace & a slice of quiet please” I never got it.

Now they have grown and flown away, waiting for one to re-fly as I swear he has a homing pigeon device built into him somewhere. I found myself still searching for this peace thing. Now I have discover a piece of cake, now I point out I do know cake is sold by the slice, but me I say I’ll have a piece of that and a piece of that and oops 🙊 off topic…

Anyway I love my books reading gives me time to chill so that is peace I lose myself in the book and characters and it all plays out in my mind as I am reading, providing me with a mini theatre 🎭 of my imagination 💭 whilst lost in the words of the book. Giving more thought to it I have always loved my books ever since I was a child the only time I felt truly happy was with my books around me. Now I have at least 15 bookcases filled with books on most subjects because it makes me feel good, safe, and at peace with myself

The one other thing I do that brings me peace is I write, because it releases a lot of tension, makes my wrist ache though. What do I write asked no one writing a book, poetry loads of topics, have had poetry published in USA. Just incase anyone wanted too know or not.

So that is my peace,books and writing , somewhere only I know high amongst the clouds my imagination and my ability to see the unseeable. To disappear into my thoughts and be totally happy because the world outside of the cocoon I have built around my little fantasy world is free of all earthly issues.

“Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.”
― Thomas a Kempis

What Has She Written Now

What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?

Welcome, dear friend! Days aren’t the same when you’re not around!

I sit here on my not so skinny butt, thinking of an answer that won’t get a tut tut.

What change would I like my blog to make, well a smile or two for goodness sake.

But that will only happen when I write a little more. STOP counting the dog hairs on the sitting room floor.

I would love to finish my book find a publisher, The dog hair is now mini tumble-weeds of fur

I can do this pull my big girl pants up high, that’s a scary thought Wonder Woman now a hippo 🦛 falling from the sky.

My words I would love to reach many ears, to make people cry 😭 NO with the laughter kind of tears 😂

So from this Triple bellied Hippo, that wears a Survivor badge with pride. Redundant mum of 6, divorced, disabled wearing a sign Load is Wide.

There you have above my thoughts, my future hopes that my blog could inspire. The only problem I foresee is I have to get myself moving and stop being so tired……

This was just me being me but seriously I am just writing because experiences change us and those experiences can help people. Many years ago there was only books to refer too which I still do but no advice or no way of knowing had anyone been through the same trauma or amazing things I had , now we can use the power of the internet for positive uses and learn and grow. I have sat and read things that have made me cry at what people go through and other things that are so amazing and funny I have been giggling for ages after. We can all share in the good as an amazing family and we can share one another’s misery .. I would like to think blogging, websites anything I am working on will leave a positive happy impact

Sending Smiles to everyone 😄

Maybe I could hire this fitness expert wonder if she does ballet for wheelchairs 🦽😉

I am but one voice

So staring at this blank screen is like staring at my life,

The past once so full and rich has gone, cut off with a knife.

A Metaphor you’re thinking for something I have lost,

No, my dear, I can answer, a knife, a boot, but a fist the most.

I am now invisable, a remnant of myself,

left broken and alone gathering dust upon a shelf.

Domestic Violence is a crime and should be punished I agree,

But with PTSD and left disabled, alone in another town why should it be me?

Bitterness has turned to please Karma where have you gone?

Have you abandoned me also? I have been alone for, oh, so very long.

Or do I not exist, from the time he walked out the door?

I want to be seen, my story told, no longer invisible, it’s time now to be bold.

Take a stand, well a wheelchair for me, Abuse and Violence needs to stop NOW.

I am but one voice lost , my children and I were moved safely somehow.

We are lucky, some are not, I am not complaining , I’m alive.

Its heartbreaking to think of those that don’t survive.

So if you have been affected, or feel the pain in some way

Don’t you think its time we stood together united have our say.

Man or woman it matters not bullying should be no more

Life should be for love and laughter, show hatred out, shut the door.

Kim Louise 2021