Confusion
All day Saturday I thought it was Sunday. Now, on Monday, it feels like Sunday. I wished my granddaughter a happy birthday on Friday, but it wasn’t her birthday until Saturday.
I write all the family dates in my diary at the beginning of the year, but somehow I put Kiri’s birthday on the wrong date. I got my mother-in-law’s birthday date wrong every year – that was in the years before I wrote all the dates down.
I’m not the only one to be confused. My eldest daughter, who is usually extremely well organised, can never remember my wedding anniversary, and is always a day late. That’s probably because we have never made a big thing of it. I can’t really blame her – it took many years for the date to etch itself into my husband’s memory.
It would be easier if he were a shooting man. The Glorious Twelfth, the beginning of the grouse shooting season, is a date that’s never forgotten.
I worked with an elderly gentleman, way past his retirement age, Jack Richardson, who always dated his official letters the glorious twelfth, your post reminded me of him, he was a perfect English gentleman. I am often heard asking what day is it along with what's today's date, which I believe is to do with retirement.
ReplyDeleteHaving grandchildren still at school gives an approximation of season and month . . .
DeleteIt's the same for me, every day everything is the same, but still different and I suddenly get it all mixed up.
ReplyDeleteIt happens to us all! 😊
DeleteDates of events are forgotten here as well. Then years, then ages, then everything not practically applicable to survival. Maybe that is why hunting season is etched into memories.
ReplyDeleteI write ages alongside birthdays and then am surprised afresh at how old everyone suddenly seems.
DeleteSome dates are always hazy. In my head anyway. Most of them I never forget, though because of time differences I'm sometimes late or early but there are 2 or 3 that I always get mixed up. Never mind remembering how old everyone is on their birthdays!!!
ReplyDeleteSo long as they're not completely forgotten . . . 😉
DeleteIt's easy to look track of days in retirement, and I have Google Calendar for the dates.
ReplyDeleteWe always laughingly remind ourselves of weekends and time to relax . . .
DeleteMy son exchanges a daily morning text with me, and often reminds me tactfully of the day in his greeting -- as in Good Monday Morning!
ReplyDeleteThat's an excellent system - how tactful.
DeletefI didn't know the Grousies had a special day. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteRed grouse can only be shot in England, Scotland and Wales between August 12th (the Glorious Twelfth) and December 10th. In Ireland it's August 12th to November 30th - no idea why!
DeleteThree-day weekends are always confusing!
ReplyDeleteThey do rather screw up the rest of the week, but it's always nice to think you have a 'short' working week.
DeleteThere have been years when both my wife and I have forgotten our own wedding anniversary!
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