Simple Really

How do you feel about cold weather?

Hello my friend, hi 👋

What a day today has been, I woke up with my eyes opening, wider and then, I can say hand on heart I had my eyes wide open. Seriously it was amazing, Then I said to myself ‘What a wonderful world’. I asked the device that’s always listen (no not Sir Starmer Llamas army) to ‘Turn the Radio on’ .

One final check in the mirror before starting my day I heard ‘Nellie the Elephant 🐘 packed her trunk’, playing on the radio and smiling to myself I went to make a coffee.

I was ‘Walking on Sunshine’ or rather sitting on the stairlift and gliding on sunshine streaming through the window.

Oops forgot about the reason I came here to write to you and chat, well I saw this little prompt or question whatever you wish to call it, interesting was my second thought, my first being another cup of coffee.

So how do I feel about cold weather ? Well several things to be fair, I am not an Eskimo nor am I an Amazonian Warrior Women .

I do not like cold because my legs ache, my muscles cramp, and my internal thermostat seem have to broken. So my feet are always cold and look slightly blue.

On the other hand I am not happy with heat either as again I cannot control my internal temperature

So conclusion;

I am not an Eskimo, neither do I ever or have I ever fancied holidaying in colder corners of the globe. So therefore I am not a fan of the cold, freezing, or frozen, re the cold, what’s the point all I do is wrap up and get the blankets out, until it warms a little. I’m rather lucky as here in the UK 🇬🇧 we don’t suffer to much with extremes in temperatures but we suffer with not being able to afford to heat our homes. That though is another story and not a fairy story either, one full of wicked lies and robbing greedy people, demons and wizards 😂😂

Actually I think if I was told I had to live in colder climates I would go live in a bear den and hibernate till the sun shone and the ground warmed again.

Good Day Sunshine

The Beatles

Good day sunshine
Good day sunshine
Good day sunshine

I need to laugh, and when the sun is out
I’ve got something I can laugh about
I feel good, in a special way
I’m in love and it’s a sunny day

Stay warm or cool whichever is your preference you are all still part of the same wonderful crazy bunch of humans on this planet that could all be friends if you wanted to be.

Much love

Kim-Louise

Fun 🤩 5 Things

List five things you do for fun.

Dear friend,

I have been absent, for that please accept my apologies and let us move forward in life.

This looks like a fun exercise list five things I do for fun !! !! !! !! !! !! !! – maybe it was a little more difficult than I thought. In my pre less-abled diva days I would have listed 5 and 5 more just for fun. Now I just do things to get through the day.

Oh no you don’t, this is no pity party, this is my brain trying to kickstart its dusty motor a little .

Here we go

I write, it’s therapeutic for me, don’t care if it never gets read I am happy with it. I find my mind whirling and ideas flash, next I am away in a story and calm as can be.
Ray Bradbury: “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens
Reading, a good book can transport you anytime, anyplace, any part of the imagination. A book can be an amazing friend.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
Messing with paint, now I can’t paint in the conventional terms but I love the paint flow and ebb colour mix’s etc so I have fun with paint and canvas.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary: — Pablo Picasso
Craft work, sewing, crochet, knitting, model making and on it goes.
“Crafting is a way to make something out of nothing.” – Anon
Meditation, well this keeps me grounded, sane, helps with pain and really is calming. Not that good at selling an idea but that’s the general idea for me. My only problem if I become to calm of an evening meditating I make sure I am on my bed, I have been known to wake up the following morning. All I can say is I needed that sleep.
Sleep is the best meditation.” – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

So my boring five keep me almost sane and yep definitely 👍🏻 alive

Catch you soon

Kim-Louise

Smile

What is your mission?

Hello my friend

How are you today?

To be asked what is my mission? I am assuming it means my purpose in life, my reason for being, my calling in life.

Well after great thought and a deep soul searching which took an awful long time, I think I have an answer.

So it took me thirty seconds and the answer was there, my mission in life is to make people SMILE

I haven’t been doing a very good job recently as I seem to have lost my way a little but this question was like a push back into line to resume spreading smiles for they travel many miles .

One of my many poems about smiling and smiles, my problem was I listened to those that dislike me and his my work away, but I have since found that some of my poems have been used from nursery schools to abuse centres to help some people and make others smile.

So now I shall continue my mission.

Smile my friend it could be the best thing you could pass to an another person and it gives your face a workout.

Take care till the next time

Kim-Louise

? ? ?

If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?

Hello again, so pleased you are here.

So the question of the day is

If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?

Now I am going to be slightly pedantic with this. I live in the UK 🇬🇧 we don’t have freeways we have motorways. I just like to point little differences out mostly because I can.

Now a billboard advertises something be it a product or event, as I am neither that I am aware of ( 🤔 ) that would leave me at an odds.

I could leave my

smiles 😁 can travel many miles, so start a few today. 😁😉😁

I send the sunshine along with smiles

Live, laugh, love, but do it now today.This Present, tomorrow is just a promise, yesterday has left.

But I decided to go with my title white background 3 question marks in black and a huge QR code linking to my webpage and hopefully my future

The ? ? ?

Would I hope have people intrigued enough to ask questions and want to know more

Take care speak soon

Kim

What is Life if not a Challenge.

What are your biggest challenges?

Dear friend,

Happy New Year, this is day one of 2025 and the first year I have decided not to make any resolutions.

There are a few reasons for my decision, number one being they don’t last. I actually feel I have enough challenges ahead of me without putting anymore strain on myself.

I have a list as long as my arm some personal, some things that have to be achieved. But nevertheless all are to me big challenges for someone in my position.

When I share parts of my life it’s never for sympathy or compassion, plus I am aware that there are people far worse off than I am. I guess it all depends on where you live in this world as to how you live your life, what your home is like, running water, shops or not.

I live in the UK, my life has been a whirlwind of destruction, from the age of 12-13 till now at 58. I can remember all the good things but sometimes it’s like looking through a mist to find them. Because of the Domestic Violence I have been through.

1. Now my challenges I face are after being moved and moved by police for safety, I have never allowed myself to settle and call a place home, now the children are grown and left to start there own families , it’s time for me to accept this town and place and make it my home. So now I find myself with a place that has some heart in it but nothing is as it should be. My house is a disaster zone not a home. I have this huge challenge to turn this place into the home I want to live in and be happy with on a budget of £5 and two buttons

2. Second challenge. Due to disability I’m limited to what I can move/lift even knowing if I can stay awake longer than an hour so that’s a challenge in itself. I have to find a way of not battling this but working with it , not blaming my ex but taking back control and pacing myself so that if today is a wipe-out ok no worries here’s hoping tomorrow is better. Make no plans and go with whatever I can cope with. I have had a long time to try and manage this but the GP surgery has been less than helpful, until recently. Now with a fresh approach in my mind I’m changing this challenge from a mountain to climb to a hill to come down. As it feels like I have been stuck on a hilltop alone for so long,battling several things now I am coming down and finding myself own way that’s my challenge

3. My third challenge has been driving me mad for a long time because I have been approaching it wrong, I have been writing for as long as I can remember and I have reams of poems, two manuscripts and a couple of children’s books to put forward to look at publishing. Obviously I have to work on them, this is where I derail my own train, so I have been told. Well I am no longer in a train I am on a huge galleon ship floating on the clouds. No rails for me to come off , no water to drown in. Because the whole thing is magical there are no planes or any type of aircraft to disturb me. So my challenge here is to smoothly sail the now still clouds and finish the edits needed as my procrastination will be dealt with in challenge 2. Making this one a much smaller hill to climb I hope.

There are plenty of challenges in life, money, disability equipment i.e wheelchair, money (oh mentioned that already), mental health, ptsd, money 😁, and on it goes.

But that’s enough for today, tomorrow I start afresh, I do hope you are having a lovely day

Regards

Kim

Ah I Remember

What makes you feel nostalgic?

Hello again

Yes I’m back, I didn’t go far, you must have known I wouldn’t just leave without saying a final Bon voyage.

Anyway as I was strolling through this day, metaphorically that is, it struck me that New Years Eve has never held big plans for me. I may have been out a few times (counted on one hand) but that is it, it is not a special night for me, so here I am sat thinking about the year that is ending and all the years prior.

I have music playing I raise a silent glass to 2024’ a year that I am pleased to see end and realise that it’s music that makes me nostalgic. Music invokes memories from places , people, occasions, happy and sad.

So that explains why music plays so heavily on my mood with the happy and sad emotions even laughter.

Just between us because after all we are friends, another thing that pulls my heartstrings on the nostalgia scale is a scruffy grubby almost threadbare Rabbit, he has been my companion since I was born and he sits in my room away from grandchildren, He is an old bunny now at 58 (delicate) he makes me think of all the tears and secrets he holds from my life. I wouldn’t share this with just anyone, but we are friends now don’t you think.

My Sweet Bunny

So not to bore you any further, I shall bid you goodnight and I will be back. As if I could abandon you

Wishing you the healthiest and most peaceful New Year, may you receive what you are working hard for.

Till next time

Kim

Just Perfect

You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?

Dear friend,

The very thought of building my own space for reading and writing has been in my head for as long as I can remember.

I always wanted a dedicated room for my books, my own library. Wall to wall book shelves with a desk sitting sideways into the room so I can look out of the window.

Actually I have upgraded my plans since I first made them to include a second desk back to back, one for pc and one for writing ✍🏽.

The room will be white with a plain carpet and will have a couple of bucket seats to finish the room.

That is my ideal quiet place to study and read,

Since I was a child I have dreamt of this, oh I have amassed a sizeable amount of books for my library on most topics. I have my desks and pc plus I am writing more.

All I need is the room and at last slowly and painfully I am putting a room together, my dream will become my reality

This is when I say dreams do come true, I am 58 it’s been a long time, but wow, wow and I say again wow this will be my favourite, most loved room in all my house.

My own library/reading/writing space/room. My place of quiet thoughts

Bye for now and take care

He. She. They. Them.

Who are the biggest influences in your life?

Hello my friend

Firstly I send from me to you Seasons Greetings and may the New Year bring you Peace, Hope & Security, in whatever form that may take.

Now the biggest influences in my life have been;

My wonderful step-dad
The twins at St Claire’s, and all of Enid Blytons books. She brought me through my childhood.
A wonderful lady who lived down a woodland track near Dads farm. She was the most amazing teacher of life, baking, gardening and nature.
Mitch Album, author of Five People you Meet in Heaven. That book changed my thinking .

Two people that were actually in my life and two authors, amazing when I stop to think of all the people that I have come in contact with in my 58 years and those are the only ones I can say have really influenced me.

I am lucky to have had My Dad he was the most amazing lovely kind man.

As for the lady in the wood she was a beautiful soul, who I could tell all my troubles to. As was the custom when I grew up, adults were always Mr & Mrs, this lady became known as Auntie Babs to me. I guess she adopted me into her life.

Looking at this I can see how blessed I have been

Take care

Simply the Best

Share what you know about the year you were born.

Hello my friend,

I looked at today’s writing prompt and my eyes lit up, how do I know? The room shone bright, just like the UK did the year I was born.

When people say oh they broke the mould with that one, well whatever magic was around the year I was born, has not returned to these shores since. I find it funny there have been times when I have been asked what year was I born and I just say I will give you a clue. Wow straight away, they have it, usually admittedly they are British.

Ok the year I was born will go down in history as the year England won the World Cup 🏆.

I don’t need to list songs or prime ministers or any of the other random newsworthy items because firstly;

I-Me-The one and only Kim Louise was born

Then came;

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 won the World Cup .

For those still wondering 🤔 when,

1966

Take care and have a wonderful day

Kim

Oh What Fun

What was the last thing you did for play or fun?

Hello my friend

I was going to say the last thing I did for fun was sleep but that’s boring unless you could see my dreams.

So I have sat and thought hard about this well not that hard because being creative process to me is my fun and play in one. Like being a child again, this time no adult saying you can’t mix that or use this or a grumpy art teacher saying stop 🛑 I don’t like your work, I am free to do whatever

Be Creative with a smile on my face, I am so in love with art 🖼️ and creativity that I have a selection of paints next to me in my front room and if I suddenly feel an inspiration to paint, I have it all to hand.

Dreamland of another time.

A mix of acrylics, wooden reliefs, reindeer moss, mirrors, gems and twigs. Finished with some lights built in. Just imagination gone wild

This may be childish and not to people’s taste but I did it for fun and art should be fun, at least it’s not a banana stuck to a wall with some tape and sold for a fortune.

So this started me into my deep thinking and playful phase and my take on the tree of life and I had so much fun doing this .

The spreading family tree.

My version of the tree of life, as the fruit of the tree in this case acorns,(nuts) fall and spread they are still connected. Life goes on, but family ties are stronger than you realise.

I loved this one it’s proudly hung in my bedroom. I don’t paint for anyone as I have a huge downer on my achievements re other people seeing them but I gifted my son a small painting of a turtle-duck (he likes this Japanese Anime) at least it must resemble one because he knew straight away what it was and seemed happy. I usually love what I paint make create, maybe one day I will be able to show some pieces or not

After all I just enjoy the playing

Till next time ⭐️

The oh so little Turtleduck

I painted this for my son who is in his early 30’s a character from an anime cartoon he likes