Write It Down, Or You Will Forget!

I need to make notes of things, or they go out of my head. 

Joan Bakewell said she told her novelist friend Malcom Bradbury that she kept forgetting things. 

He replied  "But Joan, you and I have stuffed our brains full throughout our lives, we shouldn't be surprised if some of it begins to fall off the shelf." I find that strangely comforting. 

I'm getting better at using the camera on my phone to note things when I am out and about - the sign outside the charity shop about which items they will/will not accept now. The opening hours of the farm shop. The ISBN of a book in Waterstones which I hope to borrow from the library...

But I still like to physically write it down with a pen or pencil. Somehow the very act of doing that helps fix it in my brain. And I continue to use my filofax [as does Bob] Every couple of weeks we compare our diaries and see what is coming up. Let's be honest, from April onwards last year, the diaries were pretty empty apart from zoom meetings. But things have started to pick up again, and regular groups are restarting..

The chapel where I preached the other Sunday want me to go again in the New Year, we have a family wedding in May...life is starting to get busier. So we have just ordered our refill pages for 2022. 

Ages ago I bought this gorgeous Orla Kiely Gardening Journal [in pristine condition] for £1 in a CS. I'm making diligent notes in there about the raised bed and other plant matters.

There's a chalkboard in the Futility Room for our grocery shopping list.

As long as I don't forget where I put my journal and Filofax, I should be OK!

Yes, I know I could note everything on the computer or my phone, but I like paper!