There’s always something to write about
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There really isn’t too much to write about this week. I’ve been quite focused on work and really haven’t spent much time online on social media and surprisingly, I didn’t even think of what I might write this week until I sat down now to start. In a lot of ways, I like weeks like this when my entire focus is on work-related matters. That said, it is unusual not to at least start planning what I will write every weekend sometime during the week.
Does that ever happen to you? If you’re a blogger, and you have a schedule you like to maintain, how often do you come up with nothing to write about? I can usually find something, and certainly, I will include each week a gallery of photographs of the food I eat, and if I’ve been for a walk, there may at least be a photograph of a cow or some water.
It’s odd though for me not to be able to find something to write about. The big events in the news apart from religion, politics and sex, has been the passenger who was partially sucked out of an aeroplane after an engine failure. That happened while I was in Melbourne this week and I was reading news clippings about it on the flight from Melbourne to Canberra.
While in the air, I did spend some time pondering what would happen and how I might react if there was a catastrophic event on the flight. When I lived in Darwin, in the later years, I was flying between Darwin and Sydney or Canberra or Brisbane at least once every three weeks. I was on a lot of committees and doing a lot of work for various agencies. At times of mental darkness, I just assumed I would die on a flight.
Even though I am short at only 170 cm or 5’6″ in the old scale, I often select an exit row aisle seat if I don’t have to pay extra. It’s not so much the leg room I need but I know I can almost be assured that my bag or bags will fit in the overhead compartment.
I always listen to the flight attendant’s briefing before wheels up on what I’m supposed to do with the door and slide. I just hope I never have to do anything.
Dying on a flight though is probably a good way to go. It’s quick. The likelihood of survival is low.
So far the worst thing for me on a flight has been fainting.
Celebrating the weight loss
It’s been a while since I had some KFC. Back in the day, I could eat a 21 piece bucket in one go. Now though, I’m enjoying leftovers 😂
Cows of Lake Ginninderra
What I ate this week
I didn’t post that much on social media this week and because I was travelling a little I didn’t shoot that many photographs.
This is a gallery of photographs, click on one and scroll through.
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Final thoughts
It’s ANZAC day on Wednesday this week. Will you be attending a dawn service? Have you ever attended a dawn service?
One of the joys of Choppy and Schooner is, they always give me something to post pictures about!
and, I’m very grateful that they both give you something to write about regularly.
I almost always look at things and wonder how they might ‘sound’. I don’t often post them anywhere, but I do think them!!!!!
I love flying. Up here, airplanes are pretty much it for getting to and fro. We use vehicles, but for the most part, we fly. Tigger flights are always interesting (bouncy, bouncy, fun fun fun!) and I always pay attention to the spiel. Although, when she says the emergency exit door needs tossed out if there isn’t any water or fire or debris, I laugh inside. Most of our entire flight is over water.
While I never want to be in a real accident I would like to attend a proper drill for evacuating an aircraft and use the slides.
That would be fun. The little planes I fly on up here don’t have slides. I think it is just help each other as best you can sort of exit….
Like you, I also listen to the safety briefing no matter how many times I have heard it before. I’m not a very calm plane passenger. I might look okay on the outside but usually I’m trying to combat motion sickness or just anxiety about the prospect of the plane going down. One time I was on an interstate flight and got a window seat. Nice views all the way…but I did notice cool air seeping through the window panes and the a bit of frost there. These things make flying worse for me.
Also like you, I have a blogging schedule and have the days I post mapped out (one post every 3-4 weeks) until the end of the year, and the topics I want to write about. For a while I was struggling to come up with things to blog about. But then I played hard ball and forced myself just to come up with topics.
I’ve been in some scary situations. Sudden loss of altitude, touch and go landings, and sudden high banking turns. I hit my head once on the side of the plane the turbulence was so bad. I walked off looking green.
I want to keep my weekly schedule, I know if I miss a week, I’ll be tempted to miss another and so on…
I may do an ANZAC day post over at Yummy Lummy 😃
It sounds like luck is always on your side while you are flying 😀
Routine is good. Gives you something to do, Gaz 😃
I agree Mabel. Routine keeps me balanced and happy.
Cannot agree more. You just feel so much better physically and emotionally. Hope you pulled up well after the KFC this weekend 😃
I went out for high tea at Old Parliament House today. I still feel full. It was a very high carb affair 😃👍
I hope the scales are kind to you 😃 Sometimes going out is already quite an effort 😃😃
Tomorrow morning will be interesting 😃😃😃
Apart from food, weight loss and healthy eating is something you can always write about 😃
This is very true Mabel. I’m always eating with weight loss in mind.
I’m in bed and thinking about eggs for breakfast 😃😂
I spent a lot of time on military flights. I never expected to survive those flights. nothing ever went right and customer satisfaction wasn’t related to passengers. WE were considered freight. It’s always a good way to occupy your mind the whole flight long.
I’ve had some scary times on small and large commercial flights but so far I’ve never seen the masks drop.
It’s still the safest way to travel statistically so I’ll keep doing it.
It’s safer than a lot of things we take for granted. Still, it can be stressful at times. Especially when they close the toilet during the flight.
That’s never a good thing to happen 😂
I thought so too. Great minds think alike, eh? 🙂
I agree, Dan. We can forget the second part of that little saying too I reckon.
We’ve got good food to prepare. No time to be a philosopher. 🙂
Exactly 😃