Dear LPG,

I am just an internet beginner, now retired, and especially since lock-down it has given me the opportunity and time to learn more about all the interesting subjects that the internet has to offer. I have spent a lot of time discovering the wonders of the “world wide web”, and having done so much reading, at the back of my mind I have toyed with adding a thought or two of my own.

When I started surfing I thought that everything I read there was an expert opinion, until I found the LPG website, where there is a new idea every day and, where it is refreshing to read information which is written by people like me. People with no particular expertise other than the knowledge that life has taught them.  I think that one of the most noteworthy things that all this has taught me is that it is not vital to be an expert to offer an opinion, and that every opinion counts.

I have learnt a lot from the writings I have read on these pages, and what I have read has made me think that I would like to write something, but the big stumbling block for me has been that, until now, I don’t think that I have had anything really interesting to contribute.

I have noticed quite a few posts which are based on national, international, global and world days of celebration and I have also learned just how easy it is to find out which celebrations have been attached to particular days of the year. 

I hope that LPG will be able to post this in time because, with very little notice, I took a look and found that today is ‘National Fight Procrastination Day’ and, with this in mind, I hope that LPG will be able to post this bit of writing to help me win a procrastination battle that I have been fighting for the past three months.

I hope that my reminder of the significance of today will spur a few other readers on to stop putting reasons in place to stop them from getting the things that they really want to do, but find themselves being put off of, done!

So, can I wish all readers a happy ‘National Fight Procrastination Day’ and hope that my message manages to spur a few readers into changing some of those plans that they have been putting off, so that when they next talk about them, they will refer to them using the past tense (I have done ….) and not the future tense (I am going to do …) any longer… 

DP, Lewisham.

DP shares her findings…

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