Nerd Alert!

I find Greg James's Nerd Alert very entertaining. (BBC radio 1)
People email in complaining about inaccurate statements made by famous people/DJ's etc on the radio.
The comments that cause such offence to our lovable nerds are usually pedantic and absurdly technical. They can range from people using the wrong words to express themselves to complaints when someone gives inaccurate information such as calling a spider an insect.
I love people who care about these things so passionately,particularly as they can also laugh at themselves.
They know that they are Geeks and they are proud.
All Hail to our wonderful Nerds!!

The steps leading to Canterbury's library. Libraries are excellent stamping grounds for nerds.            

superb sun

I am loving this extra sun squeezed in at the end of the Summer and the start of Autumn.
I love this time of year when it is warm and sunny. The trees are laden with berries and the crops are all being gathered in.
Apparently the apple harvest is brilliant this year as the trees received a perfect combination of warm weather and enough rain.
I think this has been a wonderful few months.

Challenging myself

I listened to a webinar by Jim Bunch a few days ago he was encouraging people to accept the challenge to play The Game of Life that he has developed and it is intended to support people to achieve goals in the areas of health, wealth and happiness. The challenge is to work on something to support each goal every day for 90 days.
I think this is a brilliant idea and although I have not decided to join the game myself at this time I have set myself a 90 day challenge to carry out something every day for 90 days to support health, wealth and happiness goals that I have set myself.
I started on Friday and so far I have been successful for day 1,2 and 3 of the challenge. I will let you know how it goes!
My health goal is to meditate daily. Meditation is something I have started from time to time but stop even when I feel the benefits.
My wealth goal is to do something daily to help me save or create extra money. This can include writing a page of a book towards my dream of writing a book or marketing my business in some way. It can even include going out of my way to look for bargains in the Supermarket to help me to save money.
My happiness goal is linked to selling my house and moving into my caravan as a first step towards my future life so anything that I do that supports this such as paining the house to make it more appealing or clearing items ready for the move will count.
My brain likes challenges so I am hopeful this will be a very exciting 90 days!

Writing

I think I mentioned a while back that I used to love writing and spent a lot of time writing for pleasure. I think mainly due to work pressures my love for writing dried up for a while which I found rather sad but did not really know what to do about it.
Recently I have started writing again. I am a little self-critical but this is definitely a big step in the right direction.
I have worked on Personal Development this past few years and feel that it is all starting to come together. I appreciate what I have so much more than I used to and am excited about life's possibilities. This has freed my mind and helped me to become more willing to take risks so that I am able to do the things I really want to do.

back to school!

I am back at school along with a lot of other school staff and kids all over the land.
It was good to catch up with everyone and hear how they have spent their summer.
We have just over 7 weeks this term and apparently the weather might stay warm and sunny. That would certainly make it easier for everyone to adjust to being back.
Ollie was ecstatic when I got home and it was light and sunny enough to go out for a nice walk over the fields.
The weird thing about going back to work mid-week is that it is very hard to remember what day of the week it is!

This is a picture of me and the dogs on the beach a few weeks ago.

Walking

I love walking in the countryside. I particularly love walking with my dog. He finds everything so exciting and his excitement is infectious! He is particularly fond of rolling in unpleasant substances and so this adds a dimension of risk. I have to try and head him off before he gets stuck in or I have to take him home stinking!
I am off to walk in the hills today and I am taking Ollie to see my son Jack. Jack is on a holiday in Sussex which borders Kent.
I can't think of a better way to spend the last day of the summer holiday.

More wonderful camping!

We have just got back from another wonderful camping trip! We went to The New Forest again. It is one of my favourite places ever.
We went for some lovely walks, the camp-site was good and the weather treated us well. The dogs had ideal walkies conditions: woodland, heathland, puddles, rivers....they loved it!
Ollie did not enjoy the dog-wash at the end!