Back
at the end of 2012, for the sake of my mental health, my GP suggested I go out
and do things just for me that are "utterly frivolous and don't involve
you in organising anything."
Mrs Leftfoot insisted we do something every month.
This has included: quiz nights, cinema trips
(7 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Dunkirk and Darkest Hour); musical events at the
Lit & Phil and Mining Institute; “just going out for a bloody walk”; and, last
Summer, socially distanced coffee in the back-garden or either end of a park
bench.
If
we miss a month we try to have two or three in the next month to catch up.
Leading to interesting conversations like
“Is
this April or May?"
"I think we’ve done
March, so perhaps this is May.”
Sadly,
thanks to this present unpleasantness, we are currently at least nine months
behind in our outings.
Possibly even
more sadly, I’ve written Left seven times in the top of my 2021 year planner so I
can tick last year’s missed outings off as/if we start catching up on
ourselves.
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This was February's event. Roll on March!! (We've been out together to an event nearly every month in the past seventeen. We've missed a couple and one month we did two events)
The photo is of me out with Left at a Quiz
Night in aid of LDNE at St Bernadette’s Church Hall Wallsend.
Prior to event we had this Facebook Messenger conversation
BB Did you see my email about the fundraiser on
Saturday at St Bernadettes?
Or a walk
would be good too.
LF We could do the quiz ... Would Def
be something "new" on our agenda.
BB It starts at 7pm. Shall I pick you up at 6.30ish?
LF Go on then. Is it byo?
BB No! It's RC, there's a licenced Bar.
LF Stop it!
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Surprised to realise we're been
doing this for almost 4 years Mrs Leftfoot!
Doesn't time fly when you're having fun!
Mrs Leftfoot If it was 17 months 3 years ago doesn't that make it nearly 4 and a half years now?
Bentonbag You're the mathematician ...
Bentonbag ... and, theoretically, almost can be over as well as under.
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