Another Kirsty post on mental health

 This post is just to great not to get a mention’Top 4tips for Self Care‘ you can find it here :- https://www.kirstykellyphotography.com/post/top-4-tips-for-self-care

I have written about my own depression many times before I was so depressed once I deleted all of my years of posts on several blogs I used to write. Well five blogs can be counted as several can’t it? Depression or the Black Dog as Winston Churchill used to refer to it is more out in the open now but it still takes guts to admit you are suffering and seek help. 

Photo from google images

Kirsty has written several posts about mental health and I have enjoyed reading them on her blog https://www.kirstykellyphotography.com/blog

Her main income comes from her photography but her blog has adverts on it so if you see adverts on independent traders like her click on them to aid their income rather than going to google. I am sure indies can do with extra money. 

Kirsty on Anxiety attacks

 I follow  @KirstyPhoto on Twitter and I also read her blog. Her latest post is how she copes with her anxiety attacks. Now I suffer from mental health problems and I still maintain the best two tablets I take each day are my antidepressants. Have a look at Kirsties posts on her blog KIRSTY BLOGD

https://www.kirstykellyphotography.com/post/dealing-with-an-anxiety-attack

If you would really like to help Kirsty buy some of her photography here is her online shop details 

https://www.kirstykellyphotography.com/shop

#support artists shop indie 

To blog or not to blog

 I have not done this whole lockdown thing very well. I was recovering from an operation in the early stages and from May I have been up and down with my MS and also my bowel problems. Today has been a marvellous day we actually ventured out and even ate out😊 fish and chips sitting in the car 😂 eaten looking out to sea at Cliftonville.

We then drove along the seafront to Westbrook to Barnes car park to see the waves breaking over the prom as they crashed on the concreted defences. I would have some photos for you but we didn’t think to take the camera 📷🙁. 

The reason for this post is shall I give up blogging completely? I have loads of time but so little inclination now to actually get this rubbish down on to the screen. I get so few page views now  I don’t feel I am contributing anything to the blogging world 🙁

It is rubbish

 I have been out today, a rare occurrence in these times of Covid. Don’t jump to any conclusions about it being a nice thing to do, it was a visit to the wheelchair people at Ashford. Left home in plenty of time and arrived with only minutes to spare! Neither Heather nor I like to be late so we will always plan to be earlier than need be, always have and always will, a trait rubbed off onto two out of three of our children. Victoria if you read this take note.😆 

Just as well we left in plenty of time today a junction we needed on the motorway was shut and that caused a detour on the journey of over twenty miles. The reason for this post being titled about rubbish is twofold, first we must have passed what seemed like dozens of posters saying “ take your rubbish home , others do” I find it disappointing that people need to be remind its their rubbish and if there is no bin Take It Home. It’s not rocket science, are people so stupid they need reminding, I recently saw a twitter post where people have walked up mountains to have a picnic then left all of their rubbish there just got up and walked away.

Costa covid

Well my last post was proved right it double quick time. Who wants to go on holiday to the COVID costas? Not me but people booked and are now having to quarantine on their return. 

Staycation and help the economy

There has never been a better reason for staying put here in England. Covid 19 has been rife here but in some European countries it has been awful. I for one wouldn’t want to be in some far off foreign country and developing the virus when far away from the NHS. Say what you like we have the best health service in the world. So basically what I am saying is holiday at home. The risk of hospitalisation abroad is to great, stay here in England is to me the sensible thing to do! The other side is from an economic standpoint. Stay at home and help our economy, many people are going to be out of work when this pandemic shakes out! If we all start swanning off to foreign climes and spending our hard earned dosh  abroad there will be less growth here at home. 

Now it may sound churlish of me to say stay in Blighty but please remember your neighbour. That is a metaphoric neighbour, a holiday in Barnsley instead of Barcelona May not have the same cachet but in this day and age of Covid 19 a Staycation has a lot going for it.

The Americans scare me

I know I try not to do foreign politics but having just read that the figures for Covid are rising wholesale in the USA and Donald Trump is saying they are the dying embers of the problem I question what’s going on?  Worldwide the numbers are rising yet we here in the uk are behaving like it’s all over!