It’s Share Your World day again with our host Di from Pensitivity 101:

Here are the questions this week:

 Did you attend Sunday School at your local church as a child?

No, I did not. I didn’t attend church as a child. Mum had been forced to go as a youngster and when she was older she chose not to attend so she was not strict about Naomi and I going either to church or to Sunday School.

 Did you attend after school classes ie. drama, sports, as a teenager?

My young years were spent avoiding any school related activities. I didn’t like sports, hated doing PE in school so I certainly wasn’t going to volunteer to do any afterwards. As for drama I was way too shy. My way of looking at it was that school had me from 9am to 3:45pm, after that, apart from homework (which I disapproved of but did it anyway) was my time to do the things that I wanted to do and that did not involve making a fool of myself in front of others or doing things that did not interest me. I didn’t want to do Brownies or Girl Guides either. I thought it sounded too much like school doing an organised activity. I was an unsociable child I guess.

 Did you go to evening classes after you had left school?

Not right away, actually not until a lot later and they weren’t evening classes but I did go to adult education classes in later life. I did a computer course when I was around forty to learn how to use Windows and later on when I was fifty I did a business administration course and a bookkeeping course.

 Do you now belong to any groups/meetings (ie WI, single (not dating), young Mums, slimming clubs, young wives,  Men’s hobbies )

Not now, I haven’t joined anything since moving to Sisters Beach because of the difficulty of getting around without any public transport. I do my weekly volunteer job every Thursday at the Visitor Centre at Wynyard. I really enjoy that. If I could get out more I might join University of the Third Age who meet in Wynyard. Otherwise my groups are all online.

Gratitude:

Naomi and I had a very enjoyable weekend. On Saturday we went to a garage sale at a car club in Ulverstone. Naomi bought some nice English china tea cups and saucers for just a few dollars. The next day we went back again as the club was having a swap meet. We were hoping to see some old cars but there were not many there. There were a lot of people selling car and bike parts though. Naomi was lucky and found an old school case for $5 and a wooden crate full of antique bottles for $20 which was a fantastic bargain. We took Teddy and Toby with us and after leaving the swap meet we went to the Don River Railway and took the dogs on a steam train trip. They were very well behaved for their first train ride. Don Market was open too so we went and had some Devonshire Tea, scones, jam and cream.

I didn’t take any photos but we all had a great time.