✨Sunday Intention Setting✨

[GezzaP]

@AlwaysMyself I don’t know anything about the crusades and how much the pope was involved.

The pope was very important in earlier history especially in Spain and Portugal. The pope drew a line on the map and said you have that bit and you have that bit.

I made it to the shops later than usual but made it. I get very anxious driving since I had a crash that I caused. I have lost all my confidence. But at least I made it.

I have only had 2 cigarettes between 9am and 12.30pm. It is the early morning that I have to work on. I need to put the smokes away and not smoke in the morning. My health is suffering. I have smoked for years.

Hope your day is going ok.

[AlwaysMyself]

Cheering for you @GezzaP because you went to the shops! 😊

I can totally understand being anxious and less confident driving since an accident. 

Thankfully I don't have any problematic anxiety myself, but I definitely became a lot more nervous or over-cautious when driving after I spent a few years as a typist for medico-legal reports; a number of which were due to car accidents. Reading about what happened in some cases really made me second-guess other drivers more in terms of "have they seen me? are they slowing enough to indicate stopping?"  I think it has improved a bit since I stopped doing the report typing about 10 years ago, and I'm just on the more-cautious side of normal now lol.

I caused a car accident once, when I was on my green P's. A car ahead of me stopped unexpectedly as we were merging from a slip lane into the main road; there were no cars coming to inhibit the merge so I did not expect them to stop, and whilst I did a shoulder-check, I hit the car in front of me.  Thankfully it was low-speed and no one was hurt; but I still felt very bad and shaken by it. That was before I did the report typing job.

With your interesting information about the dividing line set by the pope for Spain and Portugal, I went to google to find a map illustration and found this one quite good to see (for anyone else who is interested too: https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter1/emergence-of-mechanized-transportation-systems/span... ). I was wondering how they could say "east and west" of the line when the globe is spherical lol, but this map shows the "other side" of the dividing line too. It makes a lot of sense now why Portugal went to colonise through the African and Asian areas, rather than Spain.

I also read in my search that Spain used to be called Hispania. I did not know this, but makes so much sense of why Latin Americans are called Hispanics. I am learning so much 😃

[GezzaP]

@AlwaysMyself  Yes doing the reports would have been difficult. No-one was hurt in my accident, but I wrote off the other car as I was driving a big 4W drive then. Was going quite slow just made a mistake.

Spain was called Espana in Spanish. They called one of the islands they colonised in the Caribbean Sea hispania. Then Spanish America came to be known as Hispanic America  in the US. Spain used to control large parts of what is the US today. It was lost by Mexico in a war with the US. The Spanish colonised one place in north Africa and the Philippines. So it wasn’t only the Portuguese that looked to Africa and Asia. I will look at your link.

[Chasingsunsets]

Hi Everyone! This is a bit late for the week but I got there!

I made it to the tamarind tree @AuntGlow  ☺️. The tamarind isn’t ripe yet, so I didn’t go climbing the tree hehe, I’m not as agile as I was when I was a kid lol.

Being there brought back a lot of good memories: the smell of the frangipani flowers, the sound of one particular bird (not sure which one maybe the magpie lark) and the sight of some mango trees near by with mangos (another good childhood memory of collecting mangos!!) Plus what I came for today the sight of the tamarinds in the tree.

I grew up quickly, so this was an interesting little journey back to those younger days when I had so much fun and no worries around that tree, just hanging out with friends working out how to get the tamarind off it.

It also brought up something special for me, as I had brought my dog along for the ride (a full circle moment). I wasn’t allowed to have a dog when I was younger. When I’d be around the tamarind trees. I asked and asked, and finally, many years later, in Year 7, I was able to get my first dog, a stray found down the road from us.

I had to write a letter to Dad explaining why I wanted the dog, how I’d take care of her, etc. It was very formal. After reading the letter, Dad called me into his work office. I was in tears, really anxious he’d say no but I was finally allowed to have a dog of my own!

Indi is my third dog now. I lost my first girl to a snake bite, my second to cancer. Now I have beautiful Indi—she’s my best friend, they all were my best friends. I’ve always loved animals and will never take for granted what owning a dog feels like. 

I’ll also include a pic of some green tree frogs in my memory lane. I have since built a frog hotel, they come and go as they please 😊. Since I couldn’t have a dog back then, those wild GTFs were my little companions. I loved going out to find them, now I don’t have to find them some choose to live near me 🌳🐶🐸

Sorry this was so long, this memory linked a lot of things for me. It was fun 🙏

 

 

 

 

[ENKELI]

@Chasingsunsets do you live in north Qld (FNQ) or north WA?

Aside from my time in Broome I haven't seen those beautiful frogs. I love your Froggy Motel, what an awesome thing to do 😍

My maternal grandfathers' family lived in Carnarvon (a town about 900km north of Perth) and had a banana plantation, plus mango trees and as a kid we would get boxes full of mangos and bananas sent to us. If the bananas were over ripe they were dipped in chocolate and frozen which was always a delightful treat.
Some of my favourite memories are of my Nana and I sitting on the back step of her house in Geraldton, eating mangos and getting mango all over our faces and hands. 

Thank you for sharing your memories, it sounds like you had a great childhood around the tamarind tree.

[Oaktree]

@Chasingsunsets @ENKELI 

My Nana had an orange tree. I have great childhood memories of eating frozen oranges in the summer heat.

[Chasingsunsets]

Hey @ENKELI 👋, wow boxes of mangos and bananas how good! That sounds so good!! The frozen banana in chocolate sounded so good!!

Yes I love my frog hotel, it brings me lots of happiness 🐸

I love the memory you shared how nice sitting with your nana! You might have to make some fruit dipped in chocolate or eat a mango now 🙏😋. Nothing better that eating mangos 😋😋😋