Output

For a few months, I have been keeping an eye on the number of blogposts I churn out. I was keen to get beyond three hundred for the year and now I am up to 325. I am quite pleased with that.

Back in 2005, when I started blogging, I only published forty two posts. I was happy to click "Publish" just once or twice a week. The following year, 2006, I created 125 posts and it wasn't until 2011 that I cracked the two hundred barrier - producing 214 posts that year.

For the next six years I was always well above two hundred posts a year and then in 2017 I surpassed three hundred posts for the first time - 319 in fact. My most productive year has been 2020 and with a pandemic raging outside perhaps it is unsurprising that I scored 340 posts that year.

Currently, my output for 2022 ranks third overall and with twenty five days left in December I realise that I have an opportunity to make this my very  best year - at least in terms of the number of blogposts published.

I imagine that some of you are reading this and wondering what the hell I am going on about. Does it matter how many blogposts I produce? Why bother counting ?And surely - it's quality that matters - not quantity? All good questions but still I am aiming to outdo my tally from previous years. 325 and counting upward!

I make no apology for this slight obsession but I thank you for your forbearance and your visits   to this little corner of The Internet. That's what makes it all worthwhile.

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Faith

 Pray that

I may 

Have the strength

To accept my weakness

To relinquish my need

To know

Control 

What I can’t 

And fully have faith

To trust and obey

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Self Help

 The Trelawnyd Community Association ( TCA) held its first heating hub afternoon in the village yesterday. 

Designed to be a comfortable place to keep warm , the afternoon proved to be more a social activity than a panacea against fuel bills but everyone that turned up had a free soup, bread roll, hot drink and cake .

Over a dozen people turned up which was an encouraging number for a first go.

I was happy at ladle duty

The TCA is run well. It’s full of good nature which promotes lateral thinking and inclusivity and activities taken on always seem to take place with humour and warmth. 

The youth club is going from strength to strength, as is the toddler group. The casino night was a success as is the pond renovation , coffee mornings and now the warm hub afternoons. 

The community orchard, trees are growing well just outside the village and will be sharing their fruit with anyone who needs it next year.

The TCA is an example of self help and when Old Trevor had another fall in the middle of the night and had effectively locked himself into his bungalow, it would seem that his family were on their own when he eventually managed to use his mobile phone and call for help at 8 am

The police promised to break in and informed the ambulance service but a local locksmith sorted the door out before they could arrive. 

I managed to assess Trev’s condition with a call handler on the other end of the phone who was obviously reading from an algorithm he wasn’t that familiar with 

Ambulance waiting time over 6 hours.

The system is almost broken.

Coffee at the kitchen table now, feeling thoughtful 

Off to college shortly 

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