‘Sara’s Select’

What is your favorite form of physical exercise?

Sara’s secret to staying svelte:

Swimming the Seven Seas. 🌊

Shimmying syncretic Salsa. 💃

Seductive, sensuous, shenanigans. 🔥

Serene sleeping 🛌

‘SIMPLE SOLUTIONS’

‘Diddly Squat’

How much would you pay to go to the moon?

How much would I pay to go to the moon?

Aught, nil, zero, none, nix, nothing, zippo, nihil, nada, zip, nowt, zilch, goose egg, cipher, bugger all.

Basically… Sweet Fanny Adam’s

Or in polite terms…Sweet F**k All!

Happy Friday here on Earth 🌏❤️

‘My career journey’

What alternative career paths have you considered or are interested in?

When I was a child and teenager, I aspired to be a world class athlete. That didn’t happen! 🤷‍♀️

I’ve had numerous jobs, my first job (8 yrs old) was assisting the local milk man delivering milk to peoples homes. The days when milk was in glass bottles and placed on your doorstep each morning. Getting up at 3am every morning wasn’t the best, but there was something quite liberating, being up, out and about, when most people were still asleep in their beds. I did that job for three years.

My next job, I was now 11yrs old, I worked in a turkey farm ‘plucking’ turkeys. Eeek…a very messy & smelly role!

I’ve worked in a shoe shop…smelly feet!

Airport catering (inflight meals)…yuk food!

Bar person…didn’t like being on that side of the bar 😠.

Office work…boring!

Supermarket ‘online shopper’…they paid me to get & keep fit 🤗. But my brain cells died!

College lecturer in Art & Design…I love teaching, interacting, facilitating, encouraging, supporting, communicating, debating, laughing, and more importantly, learning from the students/learners themselves. I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Ok, I didn’t become a world class athlete…but we can’t have it all, can we? 🤷‍♀️😁

Roast Dinner

What food would you say is your specialty?

I don’t really have a speciality, I love eating and cooking lots of different foods. But, I do love a good roast dinner with lot’s of crispy roast potatoes, a selection of steamed vegetables, Yorkshire pud and lashings of rich gravy…with a good slug of red wine in it. ❤️😋

Aberfan Disaster

What major historical events do you remember?

The two main major historical events that I remember are:

1. 9/11 Twin Tower attacks.

2. The COVID -19 Pandemic.

An event I would not remember, but a catastrophic major event that occurred here in Wales on 21st October 1966: The Aberfan Disaster.

A disaster that happened at Merthyr Vale Colliery. 150,000 tonnes of coal waste, mud and debris collapsed and slid down the mountain side. The landslide destroyed many homes and buried the village junior school.

144 lives were lost; 116 children and 28 adults. It killed 50% of the towns children.

The disaster became one of the worst coal mining accidents in the UK.

‘Risk’ ? 🤔… None!

What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to?

I’ve taken many risks in my life. I’m certainly not adverse to taking risks…it’s exciting! Don’t get me wrong, I’ve made many bad decisions. I’ve taken risks where I’ve fallen flat on my face.

But, I will continue to take risks. For goodness sake, getting out of bed in the morning is a risk 🤔.

It’s a matter of weighing up the pro’s & con’s of a specific scenario.

In conclusion…is there a risk I’d like to do but haven’t been able to?

The answer is no.

If I want to do something, I will give it a go. Life’s too short not to try!

PS. My risk taking decisions are based on the possible repercussions to myself. I wouldn’t take risks that could possibly hurt others.

‘Featprints’ – I am Alive!

What are you most proud of in your life?

I am proud of my fight to stay alive.

I fought to stay focused.

I fought to stay strong.

I fought for my life.

I fought for the truth.

I fought to have a voice.

I fought for justice.

I fought for my life.

What am I most proud of in my life?

I am alive.

Acrylics and acrylic ink on canvas (30” x 20”)

‘Working on’ 😁

What have you been working on?

This is such a broad question 🤔.

I am currently working on a number of things and there are many facets to my answers:

Two paintings; one I started about 10 yrs ago…😱, I’m now ready to revisit, and finish it. The other painting I started four days ago and I ‘think’ it’s in its final stages of completion. 😁

I’m working on the final chapter of my ‘memoir’.

Completing a summer house I’m constructing in my garden.

Finally, but more importantly, I’m working on myself. Healing; both physically and psychologically.

Happy Days 🤗💛

What ‘most’ people don’t know about me…

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

Sorry, I cannot limit this to one, it has to be plural…

I am a human being.

I have feelings.

I am not a victim.

I am not an object to use.

I am strong.

I am resilient.

I am a survivor.

In conclusion… I’m going to dance, laugh, live, love, sing, paint, write, and smile to those who think they know me !

Happy Saturday 🤗🤗 💃

‘Lazy Days’ ⁉️🤷‍♀️

Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive?

🤦‍♀️ This question doesn’t make sense to me 🤷‍♀️. What is lazy?

I never have a lazy day! No matter what I’m doing, or not doing….it’s never lazy. When rested I’m still productive. When I sleep, I dream…my mind is productive. Is reading a book, or watching a film..blah blah…regarded as lazy? Is that a restful pastime, productive, or unproductive? Is it lazy?

I am totally discombobulated! 😂😂