Wishing everybody a fruitful and memorable 2026!
2026! I've just written the New Year date on a cheque!
-Yes! I am old-fashioned and still using them! As my letters are typed these days, there is scarcely any need to write a date. I find it hard to remember which day it is! Sundays, Fridays, and bin collection days are the only days I must remember.
I do use memory aids, like the paper calendar I scribble notes on, as it sits on my kitchen worktop, and on phone and computer apps. They kindly remind me of birthdays, festivals, and appointments in India and England. The world clock is a boon for me as I get and send lots of messages to India with a four, or five-and-a-half-hour time difference. It is very bad manners to forget and wake someone up in the night.
I write shopping lists, and invariably forget to take them with me! However, if I have counted the items, it does help me to make a new mental list. Sometimes, I remember what the word began with, and have to go through the alphabet, to try and jog my memory.
With all the bills on direct debits, and the supermarket that my son-in-law takes me to,
letting me use my card to pay for the groceries and vegetables, I don't have much need for cash. My everyday coat pocket has the £1 coin for the supermarket trolley, and the GTN spray, related to dynamite(?), to keep my blood coursing. If my daughter picks up the rarer shopping items, I write a cheque, thinking that it might also help her save.
I recently discovered that the flowering plant stalls let one pay by card, indeed as do most of the Bury St Edmund market stalls. I have now been tempted and succumbed to buying something for the garden, instead of vegetables and fruits for me!
I rarely go to the town centre, and sometimes I find that the front door has been locked all day, or for several days. This means I am not socialising and not getting any exercise, all 'bad' as Mr Trump would say, and contributing to my rapid aging!
I've thought about exercise! I even got as far as putting the apps on my phone!
