Scenes From Nighttime. #SundayStills. 6/2021.
- Every 5th Week on Mondays
After the warm welcome I received to the #sundaystills blogging community I am back! Last week I posted here.
Every 5 weeks on my blog, I offer the optional prompt to #shareyoursnaps for the Monday link up called #LifeThisWeek and that is why I have also included my image from there.
When I saw this prompt for week commencing 10 January 2021 from here:
These are remaining prompts for January.
NB: these are from the Northern Hemisphere, I will need to be imaginative here in the Southern Hemisphere in Summer.
And yes, I changed the spelling in two words. My computer told me to!
Jan 17 Colour Challenge: Glacier Blue
Jan 24 Fog and Clouds
Jan 31 Your Favourite Landscape
I was not sure I had any photos to fit as I do not typically take photos at night nor at night time…but then I remembered these!
In early March 2020 before COVID restrictions began, I was the guest speaker at an evening function at Avoca N.S.W. Australia to help raise funds for a head and neck cancer charity where I am a volunteer Ambassador. I shared some of my story with the audience. It was just on dusk in daylight saving time and the beach looked so tranquil as did the view. I remember stopping on my way up the stairs to take this photo.
And here’s what I did and the audience reaction to my story, along with the host (in white) a young doctor and a member of the board, a radiation specialist.
The very next week saw me, at night, out on a balcony of an apartment we stayed in post-cataract surgery, taking photos of evening-time arriving in Parramatta!
So good seeing familiar places from when we used to live in Sydney from a different perspective.

Looking west, across Parramatta Park, the western suburbs to the Blue Mountains.

Urban Parramatta at night. Old hospital to the right, and police precinct in the middle.
In 2020 I sure did get some time in medical and surgical facilities….Gosford Private Hospital twice! This is from the first stint. Four night stay. Night time really is the ‘worst’ time in hospital.
- Better Over Time!
- Bit of a leak!
- And ready for next time.
Not in chronological order but in May, it was the COVID night time 21st Birthday of our second granddaughter. Only her nearest & dearest allowed at her home. Still have restrictions now unfortunately.

Birthday girl is 3rd from left. A Butterfly balloon seen here is because she has always been known as “our beautiful butterfly” from birth!
So I found images and used my imagination too.
Great combination for a blogger I reckon.
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Have a great weekend and week ahead everyone,
Denyse.
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Grateful For This. 38/51. #LifeThisWeek is 4 years old! 76/2020.
Grateful For This. 38/51. #LifeThisWeek is 4 years old! 76/2020.
If I could reach out to you all, here’s what you might have to celebrate the blog’s 4 years of link ups on Mondays. Big on cake and biscuit cooking at my place.
Where did it all start?
Back in August-September 2016. Gosh, I hadn’t even known I had cancer back then. Lovely Kirsty from here, decided to close her Monday link up called “I Must Confess” and I approached with an idea for Mondays and she was delighted to support and promote….we ARE good mates!! Thanks Kirsty.
This post tells some of the story too.
Here is the first blog post about it. With the first set of optional prompts.
M E M O R Y L A N E : September each year.
2016: see above
2017:
2018:
2019:
About the Optional Prompts.
I admit they can be easy to decide and then, I can find some weeks harder than others. I do use a calendar for some, for example recent post on Sydney 2000 based on the Sydney Olympics Anniversary. Some are personal because I have some views I want to share but they can apply generally, for example “birth order”. Then in 2018 I made a plan to help sort out the year by adding:
Each 5th week: Share Your Snaps (photo-based post)
Each 7th week: Self-Care Stories
Each 9th week: Taking Stock
This meant for me I “only” needed to come up with prompts in between those intervals.
The reality of the blogging calendar is there are 51 weeks of prompts, and often the last one or two is free choice.
Why Optional Prompts?
Sometime we can sit at the computer and draw a blank but we still want to write! I know this helps me to have a prompt but to ensure no-one felt if they had not blogged based on the prompt they could not link up, I call them optional prompt.
2020.
What a year 2020 has been. Nothing like any of us expected when we made our first of the year posts and mine was this!
I admit when I set out to make a daily gratitude post on Instagram, I thought it would be easy. I knew I could find, feel and notice gratitude all around me. I was ready! Bring it on. Then…the year changed as we know, for all of us. My go-to daily activities were curtailed via the big C (not cancer, the other one) and I also had some surgical procedures. I really HAVE had to seach for gratitude far more deeply and note it even on the worst days for me. I continue to do the daily gratitude on Instagram (see the right hand side of the blog) until 31.12.2020.
2021.
I have no particular hopes nor dreams for 2021, given how 2020 has played out, but I do know one thing: Hamilton, the Musical, has been on repeat for me.
This sums it up…the title anyway, for 2021 and Life This Week!
Thank you for linking up today and commenting too. I will read your post later this week, as always!
Denyse.
Link Up 207
Life This Week. Link Up #207
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