It's 'Screaming Day'

My Morecambe friend told me this:

"My mum has done a lot of change in her adult life. She said the best thing to do when you arrive in a new place is to mark the day on the calendar exactly one month into the future. She called it 'Screaming Day'. During that first month, you should not try to assess, judge, compare or even process the new place you are in. You should just 'be' in it, allowing everything that you see and do to wash over you. Then, when you get to Screaming Day, you can scream, cry, break down - FEEL - in any way you wish!" 

Her mum said this method really, really helped her. Unfortunately, my friend told me this a bit too late. I was already deep in assessment, judgement, comparison and processing.

All the same, today is my Screaming Day. October 4th. Exactly one month since I arrivcd. How am I feeling? Frankly, rubbish. Homesick as hell. The weather is end-of-Novembery and my initial oompf has disappeared.

So I came to the Hive today to be amongst the buzz but there were almost no people and no lunch at all (cafe woman gone to a funeral - actually maybe it was a wedding, but I heard 'funeral'!). Instead, I walked to the village chip shop and sat on a bench in the wind watching the sitting-down cows all ready for the rain.

Yep, I'm living the life!