Daily Writing Prompt: Where do you see yourself in 10 years.

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That woud be anyone’s guess, according what you believe, look up, look down or do not look, just imagine. I would be 90 years old and judging how the human race is developing, perhaps we all then remember how it used to be if our afterlife actually gives us a memory.

But let us be optimistic, I might have my great grand children on my knee, telling them all about how it used to be when I still had my own home before living in the senior home with someone holding the spoon to help me eat. I would have memories of being independent and moving myself without the help of a wheelchair.

In the worst case, or normal case, I would be six foot under, as my mum always described the after life, in a wooden box or perhaps the ashes after the fire in a Ming style vase, who knows, but my blogs might still exist somewhere in the computer world and many of the youngsters reading this might even start searching for them in their cyber records in WordPress and perhaps even reprint them, who knows.

RDP Monday: Crystal

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Someone stoll the crystals, but we can always use our imagination. It has been sitting on my bookcase since many years, a stone ground down and to be used as an ash tray. However, I do not smoke and Mr. Swiss no longer lives here. The only crylstals I have at home are from the remainders of my sugar, although I am diabetic, so no use for sugar.

RDP Sunday: Treed

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Yes I am completely treed in my little village in Switzerland. I always thought we were outnumbered by cows but apparently we are also outnumbered by trees. A good subject for my photos, but problems arise giving the trees a name. If they have a flower or fruit, it makes the choice easier, but you have to be quick and patient to get the clues to their names.

Of course if you happen to have an apple tree, it does make life easier for a name. I planted the tree about 30 years ago, bought in the local supermarket, just a few years old and today it gives me a regular harvest of Fiorina apples annually with beautiful flowers in April promising a good harvest, hopefully. Yes I am treed completely

RDP Friday: Talent

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I would not exactly call it a talent, but more perhaps a hobby.

It all began when I passed my school exam and entered the high school It was there that we had foreign languages on he plan, the first and only being French. Not that was my choice, but it was the choice of the British school system and so I learnt French for the first five years of my high shool life. I found it was not such a bad thing, to speak and understand another language. I was not perfect, but somehow a fire began to burn in my brain.

After three years of French, German was also a choice and so there I was leaning the language. Spanish was also a choice at school, but not for my class, so I decided to lean Spanish at evening clssses once a week, which I did for two years. What I really wanted to learn was Italian. My school days were over and I enrolled in an Italian class. And then my lifetime ambition cristllised and yes, I enrolled in a Russian course. We had a great teacher, a Czech, but her Russian was perfect and I stayed in her course for 12 years. Of course this was many years ago. I was then in Switzerland so was leaning my Russian from a teacher who spoke German with us – no problem. I then had so many languages revolving in my head that one or two more was not a great problem.

As you can see, I collected quite a lot of literature. After my many years of Russian I would write and read the cyrillic alphabet. My first text books for the Russian language were based on the Soviet Union as it was then called and then things changed and we got new more modern books on the Russian language without being Soviet. I was so happy, a long time wish was achhieved speaking Russian. The main problem was I could not speak Russian with others, as I knew no Russians to practice with. However since being invaded in Switzerland with many refugees from the Ukrain who mainly spoke Russian I had the oppotunity to use my Rusian knowledge.

This was not enough for my quest for languages, and so what did I do. I enrolled for an evening class to learn Arabic. However, after a year I leaft this course. I could then eventually read and write Arabic, but there were too many dialects involved and I discovered that even the countries speaking Arabic did not always understand each other. Oh, and by the way you can see a book to learn Turkish in my collection. Also an idea of mine, but it remained an idea.

Today with my 79 years I can still read and write Russian cyrillic, but no longer so much. I was 40 years old when I began to learn the languge. Today I can basically speak english, my mother tongue, french which is useful in Switzerland and Italian as we have many Italian speaking in Switzerland. I have not forgotten my Russian, but I have lack of practice and my Arabic is almost non existent, but I have a general knowledge of the grammatical formation.

The subject here is actually Talent, so am I telented? Not really, just persistent with a thirst for knowledge of foreign languages. An example was when we decided to go to Portugal or a holiday. I spent a couple weeks learning the basics of the language, although not a great achievement. The main word I remember today was “formica” meaning ant, as ants seem to be the main insect in Portugal. They were everywhere.

So now I say До свидания

RDP Thursday: Relate

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Today was the day to sort the relationship of the keys to the doors. Our locks in our appartment block had to be replaced and thus the keys, The locksmiths arrived this morning and began their work. They were efficient and soon had the main locks replaced with the new locks and we got our new keys, although for a 79 year old lady like myself, it was a little confursing.

First of all I had to sort out who had keys and who needed to have them replaced I had 5 keys belonging to my sons, myself and a few necessary extras. I collected the old keys and made a detailed list of who gets the new key It sounds easy, and it is, although it was a job of organisation. I have one key in a special locked box in my postbox to be used for my helpers when they visit due to my mobility poblems. which has a special code to release it. However, the locksmiths helped to organise it.

The main keys and new locks were fitted this morning and now in the afternoon they are doing the remainder, mainly our post boxes. At the moment I cannot access my daily post, but no great problem. In the afternoon it will be organised and I probably only get bills to pay, so why rush.

I am glad the work is now done. I often think my daily work is mainly organisation of such affairs, a real office job.