Thursday

The family tree won out yesterday. I've finished the presentation to the stage where it contains all the details of the people I want to talk about and now I am adding additional information in anticipation of some of the questions I think (know!!) will be asked. I don't want the presentation to be highjacked by certain family members who will certainly affect the pace of the presentation, expecting me to stop while he/she works out where a village is in relation to our home town, or whether someone is the correct age, or how a person is related to us. So I now need to include a simplified map, add everyone's age (not just dates) and detail the relationship to myself. It's probably another day's work but entirely worth it!

I'll carry on with it today and get it finished. Yesterday I was so focused on what I was doing that the day passed in a flash and I'm sure today will be the same. It's made me realise, although I knew it already, that I need to find something else to do that keeps my interest as much as this does. Family and friends have always had me marked out as 'that person' who, as soon as they retire, studies for a different A level every year and although it's tempting, I'm not sure that it's the right choice at present. I'm already learning Italian (which is progressing much better than expected 😁) and am also working at improving my standard of playing on the piano, but I can see that I need something else as well. Even if I decide to resume the photography degree it's completely practical so doesn't make me use my brain in the same way that, for example, an A level in a previously unstudied subject would. I need to give it some thought.