Family is the prompt for Monday. We’re nearing the end of the month, and tomorrow’s may be my last offering, as I don’t usually do the Wednesday One Liners.
Just Jot It January is by Linda Hill (with help from her friends). You can jot something down for the prompt anywhere, any time, just post it on your blog before the end of the month (so it seems). You can read the full instructions here.
Family – Jan 29th
This is linked back to Kim’s blog and to Linda’s post for the day.
I’m not sure what to say about family. in fact I didn’t finish off this post when I started it, setting it to come out a few hours ago! I think I was lucky to have a lovely family, but I realise now that a lot of what people think is odd about me is because I didn’t have sisters, and my brothers were all older than me. Yet there are loads of families just like mine!
Now that I’m older, and not working with other people, I have found it very difficult to make new friends because people want to know about your grandchildren, and of course I haven’t got any. It sort of puts a barrier up – no grandchildren = nothing to talk about. In fact, the few friends I made who have got kids, I didn’t know about the kids until I’d known them for years! Says a lot about me, I suppose.
Hope I do better with tomorrow’s word 🙂
You have written a beautiful post Jemima, I have children and grandchildren but I hope they are not the only things I talk about….. I consider you a friend and I find you very interesting, I love that photo of you and your dad 💜
I think we are more friends through work, I.e blogging, so we have common interests 😀
No problem, Jackie. I have childless friends and we always have loads to talk about!
Great picture!
When you have books you always have something to talk about!
Good photo of you and your dad. I have quite a lot of friends with grandchildren now but I find that easier than when I was at the age that other people started having children. Then they were understandably very absorbed in parenthood and quite a few friendships floundered.
Yes, it’s when you meet new people whose main interest is their family, when it’s understandable that common interests are hard to find.
Lovely picture of you and your dad.
I think that whenever I meet someone who can only talk of their kids and grandkids, I am unlikely to pursue any friendship with them, because it suggests a lack of any real interests. I agree about it being hard to find friends at this stage of life, though. I made many of my friends through my kids, but the ones who’ve stuck are the ones with whom I shared other interests, or connected on some other level (still have no idea about why one friend and I connected so tightly, as we share very few interests yet never run out of stuff to talk about!).