16 | Jan | 2021 | willowdot21

1The Friday Reminder for #SoCS & #JusJoJan 2021 Daily Prompt – Jan. 16th

Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “first thing.” Start your post with the words, “first thing” and go from there. Bonus points if you end your post with the last thing. Have fun!

First thing this year I determined things were going to be different. Things were going to get better! Positive thinking I told myself.

Okay we are in Lockdown I have got used to that by now. Then the first thing that started to dash my spirits was the climbing deaths and numbers of people seriously ill in hospital. Also the rising numbers of positive cases not only here but world .

The first thing I must say now is sorry for moaning, yet come to think of it I am just stating facts.

As far as I can see things are not improving yet and I can’t see them doing so for a long while yet.

I had better stop this rant oops ramble through this post as sounding boring or depressing everyone is , as my intent, the last thing!

First thing, last thing Tanka.

First thing I started
With hope to move swiftly on.
My intention was
Not to moan or to complain
No on my mind the last thing.

This is part of LindaGHill’s Justjojan and #SoCs

Travel Challenge Day 10. Reveal.

This photo is the Collescium in Rome. We visited in May 2015.

We walked miles and saw so much! The weather was brilliant and we had also had some wonderful food and wine!

We stayed at an hotel that was in the grounds of a monastery it was set in beautiful gardens and there was a seminary and a church. There were lots of Nuns and Priests there on business and holiday, there were two groups of young people on Lecture Tours one group from the US, there were families and couples and of course us! It was quite a mix. It was a lovely hotel and the staff were excellent , polite cheerful and happy to help.

We had not picked the hotel because it was Catholic, we picked it for it’s location , a two minute walk from the Metro and really good restaurants. We visited The Pantheon, The Colosseum, The Forum, The Spanish Steps, The Borgesie Park,The Vatican, Sistine Chapel, The Vatican Museum and the Trevi Fountain . St Paul’s Basilica and St Paul’s Square, Argentina Square, Circus Maximus and Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II (National Monument to Victor Emmanuel II ( which the locals call either the Typewriter or The Wedding cake) and more!! PHEW!!