annanotbob2's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Three Good Things and a Bit of Bella As I came to write, and saw my last entry had been called 'And the skies are grey' California Dreaming came on the radio - the Jose Feliciano version. Cool. It's not been a great day. I pulled it together in the end, but nearly 3pm, which is late. I was all set to swim with H, one of the grief mothers but she cancelled and I fell to bits. Eventually one of my friends in the world of MS posted a link to a fundraiser the MS Society are doing about walking your dog and that combination appealed to me so I set up a page and went off with Shirley for a long walk to get us in shape. When setting it up I was asked for a name for the page and as I was still grumpy and sad I typed in #fuckms which I always put on posts about Sam and was accepted, which cheered me right up. I'm mature like that. It looks a bit cringe when shared on Twitter, but too late now. Here it is, as I'm sure you're all itching to bung me a quid or two or a dollar - I think JustGiving is international https://mymswoof.mssociety.org.uk/fundraising/fuckms So three good things:
Also, reading through the lockdown blog I came across this and wondered if it would stand alone as a short story: Bella looked at the woman. Megan, the tall, elegant woman with the unfeasibly kind face. She wanted this. She wanted this flat so much. She wanted this woman, this Megan, to be her landlady. She felt sick with the wanting, the unfamiliarity of actually caring about something.
12:37 a.m. - 20.08.23 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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