Lonely

What are you doing next week?

I just found out that it’s Loneliness Awareness Week from this coming Monday. It was actually because the lovely folks at London Writers Salon are doing an event down in London on the Tuesday (Soooooo wish I could go back but it’s already sold out).

I started my baking project, Eat Bake Sing, with the main aim of getting people together through the shared activity of baking bread. Now we do singing and all sorts too (wild food walks, singing in cave walks, plus we started a community garden during lockdown too)

So I’ve literally just decided to hold a couple of very last minute events with that in mind. There have been many times in my life when I have felt lonely and isolated. One of them was when my older children were small. I was in a new area, did not know many people and had three children under 4.

I joined a local “Mum’s Choir” (being one of the first members). There were just a handful of us back then and now it’s still going strong 12 years later! I really must get back there actually. Every Monday morning we all took our babies and toddlers and let them play while we sang actual songs for us (no nursery rhymes). Of course it was for the children too because happy mum = happy baby

So….. next week we will start with a zoom gathering on Monday evening (time TBC).

Then our usual singing group on Wednesday.

And finally there will be a community bake on Friday too. 

I’m really so looking forward to all of these. For many of you readers you’ll probably not make our real life events but please do pop onto the zoom on Monday. Think of it as co-working/co-baking as I will be baking bread and many others will too.

I held these zooms every week during lockdown. Some people just hopped on for a chat and others came to bake. It’s all good. Just nice to see folks and say hi.

(email me if you want to join)

OH! and this awareness week is organised by The Marmalade Trust… I’ll have to bring some marmalade for the bread won’t I?