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Hi everyone… Today it has been a steady day… I start full on study next week… For the first time for a very long time… I actually have a tutorial on Wednesday next week… The last time I had one of those was when I quit university… I had a mentor, who, instead of praising me, and working with the good things I could take into the course, simply berated everything, and gave destructive criticism. Apparently, the uni had had problems with this particular training placement establishment before, so why they sent me there, I really don’t know. Never mind… Nearly thirty years later, and I’m giving study another go. I’m learning on line, so I can study at home, in my own time, and structure my day around it. As a retired person, study is a good way to fill the brain up with things to do. Intrusive thoughts tend to get crowded out, with the reading and study input. It is psychology, which I find absolutely fascinating. I have books on Amazon, and music recordings on Youtube, although it is a while since I did that, I do intend to return to it though….
How do you clean a piano? Well, first of all we have to find one… What about portable music keyboards? Many with note letter stickers on the keys… Really, really grubby… Any musical instrument… We have to touch, hit or blow most things… I don’t know of anyone who has succeeded in cleaning one… It is basically impossible, unworkable. So, if we think about touring musicians… An antique violin will have been handled by thousands of people over the years… And let’s be realistic here, they won’t have all washed their hands… Do they get ill? We don’t find out… In fact, I would suggest that the musicians are more at risk of the drinking water in different places… It doesn’t put people off playing music… So, let’s look at playing a musical instrument… Anything. One of my sons is learning Saxophone… It’s a good thing his neighbour doesn’t do shift work…
Today it was cheese sandwiches for lunch… One of mine fell on the Kitchen carpet… But it is ‘Tiger’ bread, so I quickly picked it up, and ate it. We have no pets, so the kitchen carpet is ‘Reasonably clean’. (Plus the five second rule). We cannot afford to waste food. Tomorrow will be a shopping trip… A walk up a public footpath… That, although people walk dogs there, it is clean on the tarmac. At the shop, I will use the gel by the front door, just the once, once only, and wander into the store… Amongst other things, there will be bread and milk… All the wrappers will ultimately be handled by the till operator, and me, into the bag, and home, paying with loyalty and bank cards… That, to be fair, in the last six months I haven’t purposely cleaned. And I’ve bought a massive variety of different produce with my cards. It saves me searching for the exact money. When the food is used, the packs and milkbottles will not be cleaned with anything… After all, what could I use? That is evidence we can take on board. Let’s go to a ‘finger restaurant’, and dare to do what others are doing… Eating food at the tables, with no cutlery. Just as we have for years.
One last thing for now… Tomatoes… To be honest, I never have washed them, cos I will get wet too, but what are they normally washed in? Just water… No soaps, no antibacterials… That would ruin the flavour. But what are organic tomatoes grown in? If we go by the extreme route… After I’ve placed organic tomatoes on my kitchen worktop, Should I then bleach the worktop? It is certainly food for thought…
God bless you for reading.
Wannabe