Blogging at Eighty

 I have been settling into my new home which is one of the reasons I have made no posting of late.  However that was just an excuse I made to myself.  The real reason is that nobody is reading this blog and although I started with great enthusiasm it is defiantly wearing thin.  I feel I must soon make a decision I must either give up or find a way to put this blog out into the blogosphere.  If only I knew how.  Trouble is when you start a blog at my age you are not surrounded by other bloggers or people that know about such things.  Maybe I have to read the blogs of other older people and find out from them what to do.  Seems like a plan just have to do it.

When I was young I remember two of my mothers sayings.  Waste not want not and it might do them a turn .  In this throw away society it seems for a lot of people these sayings have been forgotten, which is a shame given the state of the planet.  Or is that too big a thought.  Then try this - on a website which allows people to give things away free there are postings like, I have just got my first place and I need so many things, I have baby clothes to give away, before I take this to the tip would anybody like it.  Before and since I've moved I have been giving things away like gardening tools now I don't have a garden, furniture I don't have room for in my smaller flat and the boxes and packing stuff from my move.  I am due to give that away to a couple who know they will be moving in the summer.  I'm not saying I'm a wonderful, caring person, after all I would've probably have had to pay somebody to take all my stuff to the tip if I hadn't given it...

 Although I like blogging I think I would like it better if I had some readers.  Now I have finally moved, and although I am still sorting and trying to find places for everything, I think I must read the advice on how to do it.  This is one of the problems of being eighty with no grandchildren - nobody knowledgeable to ask.   But summer is coming and I have a small outside space which I intend will be fill with as many pot plants as I can manage.  I bought some with me but so far they have been left to their own devices but soon I will be out arranging and buying them more friends.  Least ways that's the plan.

 Its  now just three weeks since I moved into my flat.  Three weeks that have had their ups and downs.  Ups - the move went well and I was in by late afternoon.  Also the removal people looked after not just my belonging but me as well.  I have a small outdoor space although as yet I have had nether the time or the weather to do much with it.  I've met three of my new neighbours and they seem friendly.  Downs - I now have an induction hob which meant that only a couple of frying pans and a milk saucepan would work on it and I have had to buy a complete set of new saucepans.  The blind in the bathroom has stuck half way.  With clear glass in the window I now have a large scarf covering the bottom half .  Not the prettiest of sights.  But the worst thing was the first couple of weeks when there was so much to do I hardly knew where to start.  Because I couldn't cook I was eating rubbish food,  I had no internet which is...