I'm not letting the grass grow under my feet

The next step

Sometimes it's difficult to find your way

 

The phrase I have heard the most in the leadup to this general election has been I don't know I don't know. And many of us have been confused as to which way to vote. If you are tired of it all like me, let me share some ways I cope with life in general.

It's a long and winding road

As a Christian, the first thing I do is commit my day to God and this gives me peace. that said it certainly does not exclude me from everyday life, the ups and downs we all have to face good times come and go bills still have to be paid etc and life has to go on.

And no one knows what is around the corner

 

    So in coping with a completely different lifestyle, to the one we led in Latvia, I needed to be active in some way or another. 

     Shortly after returning to the UK, I met a friend who introduced me to a charity called Tools for Self-reliance (  www.tfsr.org  )with a local workshop where old donated tools are given a complete refurbishment and he asked if I would like to join. After my first visit, I was hooked,

Before

After

  We are a group of men with an average age of 75ish  all with different backgrounds and interests ranging from Archeology to nature, gardening to walking. Meeting just for a few hours a week we can share things that have caught our attention during the week. We all of course could put the world to right, and during our coffee break, we often do. 

Large or small with a bit of TLC
most things can be refurbished.

Some electrical items are stripped,
refurbished tested and given another
life.

The saying goes one man's trash is another's treasure and in a world where if it's broken throw it away and buy another it gives me a great deal of satisfaction to take something from the scrap heap and with some TLC refurbish it and return it to usefulness.

One of my colleagues 
busy at his bench.


So there we have it, just one of the ways I fill my week, next time I hope to share others.