Entry number one. Bard’s Hall

Blog number one. June 3rd

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This is my first entry for the month of June and for

The Bard's Hall Contest  (13+) JUNE: Annual Blog/Journal Month! #981150 by StephBee

I almost always write to a prompt so to be given free reign as to content is out of my comfort zone. Do I have anything special to write about? That’s what I’m asking myself. So here goes.

So far 2025 has been a bit of a mixed bag. John, my husband of almost sixty years, and I live an ordinary life in the hills area of Perth, Western Australia. And yet we seem to get drawn into the dramas of others.

We have three adult children, six adult grandchildren and six great grandchildren between the ages of two and seventeen. As you can imagine there’s always a drama to which we are drawn into. Sadly drugs and alcohol have infiltrated our beautiful family which breaks our hearts. We can only be there to listen.

One is forced to reflect on one’s life on attaining 80 plus years. Recently more so. We have a collection of old VHS tapes which are causing us a problem. To get the number of tapes we have digitised is very expensive. One of our adult grandchildren attempted this weekend to show us how we could do it ourselves. Well, as it turns out, for two analogued brains it seems to be beyond our comprehension. My cunning plan is to plead helplessness and hope someone might take pity and volunteer to do it for us. I do have a victim in mind. (To be continued)