Friday Flashback.
It has been a long while since I joined in with Friday Flashback. A lot has happened in my life but I am pleased to be back again now.
The photo I have today is one of my Grandfather's shop. I had no date for this but one of the billboards on the wall refers to "King Removes Kaiser from Garter Roll". A bit of research found that on 13th May 1915 King George V removed the German Emporer Wilhelm 11 from the Rolls of the Garter due to the events of WW1. As this was hot news the picture must have been taken on 14th May 1915. My Grandfather is standing in the gateway to the shop. Although he closed the shop in the 1940's to enable him to help with the war effort ( WW11), he rode the trade bike until he died in 1953. The small child in the picture is my father's elder brother. I have no idea who the other person is.
Encaustic Art
I must have been good because Santa brought me an Encaustic Art Set for Christmas. The most creative thing I have done with an iron until now is to render clothing unwearable. Once I got my head around the realisation that I was just gently spreading wax onto paper and not desperately trying to eliminate dents in sun-baked jeans my muiddy puddles began to improve. Today I have produced something that is almost recognisable and I am quite pleased with. O.K. I know they are not perfect and the birds and dragonflies need more practice but it is a start. I will keep at it and hopefully improve further.
If you keep doing the same things in the same way you keep getting the same results.
New Year is the time to make decisions about what you wish to take forward with you into the future and what is best left behind. We need the challenge of change in our lives to grow, learn and develope. Sometimes the choices are easy - sometimes very hard.
Since I retired I have had a very laid back attitude, ambling through each day and often achieveing nothing whatsoever and yet I am very aware that the older I get the less time I have to do all the things that I want to get done. It is almost as if I am in denial and that the time that I waste now will just serve to waylay the end a little longer. My head tells me it just doesnt work that way.
Procrastination is a dirty word for 2012! New challenges here I come.......
