Fun Monday Mar 24

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Here’s da rules.

FUN MONDAY: ABC's

Back in my school teaching days, I used the A-B-C technique of making connections and remembering things. For instance, if we had studied Ireland, one assignment would be to list all 26 letters of the alphabet down the page and add words and/or phrases remembered about that unit of study:

IRELAND:
A - Antrim (County of)...
B- Blarney Stone, Belfast...
C - Cork, connacht, crystal...
D - Dublin...

Another use for this techinque is to record a family vacation...list PLACES (restaurants-monuments-hotels), PEOPLE (those on the trip-others you met), ANECDOTES, anything that had to do with the trip. Kids love to keep an on-going "journal" this way because they don't get bogged down with complete sentences, correct grammar, punctuation, etc. Plus, it's a handy-dandy way to document the trip for future references.

TRIP TO AUSTRALIA:
A - Australian Open, aborigines, Aussie, aerial pingpong...
B - beer (Toohey's Old), Brisbane, barbie, billabong, bloke, bluey...
C - crocodiles, chewie, chokkie...
D - "Don't drop cell phone into Yellow River...", didgeridoo, dingo...

With that in mind, here's the Fun Monday Challenge for March 24:

Choose a topic/theme and make an alphabetical list of words, phrases, photos...however you want to share your topic/theme.

Topics can range from pet-peeves, vacations, people who have influenced your life, jokes, favorites, philosopher's quotes/sayings, birds, flowers...anything. The sky is the limit. Your ABC list can be depicted with words, photos, illustrations... You are limited only by your imagination. Be funny. Be serious. Be creative. Be sarcastic. Be there, or be square.

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I very nearly didn’t sign up for Fun Monday this week as I got some shattering news on Wed March 19. my only daughter, the apple of my eye, has been diagnosed to have a brain tumor, once again my world has spun off its axis and I feel shattered, Vicki is only 47, she is the mother of three of my grand-children and is herself grand-ma to my two great grand-sons, she and son in law Rex are grain farmers in SA.

This is a very biased opinion I know but she deserves much better than this…. The medico’s are quietly confident that the tumor will be benign, we pray that they are right but regardless of that there is some very delicate brain surgery involved.

As I said I was inclined not to sign up for Fun Monday this week, but then I thought it perhaps offered a good chance to explain a pending absence, surgery will be scheduled for early April so I will be absent for whatever period of time it might take to see Vicki back on the road to health.

These are my ABC thoughts at the minute

A – anguish, anger,

B – beautiful daughter,

C – can’t believe this is happening.

D – darling daughter, doctors,

E – exasperation,

F – favourite (only) daughter,

G – going to be with her, get well my sweet daughter,

H – hospital, hate them,

I – I am shattered,

K – kind and loving heart,

L – love,

M – my little girl… deserves better,

N – not fair, neurosurgeon,

O – operation,

P – prayers for my darling daughter, panic,

Q – questions without answers,

R – risk,

S – surgery,

T – tumor… fuck it!!!

U – unable to think clearly,

V – Vicki,

W – we love you,

X – xray… hope they are right,

Y – you are my life Vicki,

Z – This is not the end.

Vicki in happier times.

I would like to take this opportunity to say a very sincere thank you to all
who have sent messages of sympathy, love and hope for Vicki's future health,
they are very much appreciated and I will make sure that Vicki is aware of
all the love that has been so evident in them.