There are 13 days to go until the long drive to Cornwall and a well deserved holiday.
I'm really looking forward to my 2 week holiday and I think it's well deserved too.
I'm preparing a few essentials to take with me and over the next few days I'll tell you all about it.
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Dulltown
This is a kind of test blog for the new YouTube/Google service.
Apart from that it's a true representation of what I feel about my hometown.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
No Smirking!
So here I am, sitting in Browns with the no smoking ban in place.
How do I feel?
I'm happy for all the non smokers, they get to do their thing without being polluted by the likes of me. It must feel good if you don't smoke. I feel a bit odd having to disappear every now and then to get my fix but I'll get used to that.
Has it made me think more about giving up?
In one word, no.
I've smoked for a long time and I still like it. Changing how I smoke in public places won't really change when I smoke and besides, the smoking area here is quite a social space and that's one benefit I didn't foresee.
On balance it's all working out quite well for everyone.
How do I feel?
I'm happy for all the non smokers, they get to do their thing without being polluted by the likes of me. It must feel good if you don't smoke. I feel a bit odd having to disappear every now and then to get my fix but I'll get used to that.
Has it made me think more about giving up?
In one word, no.
I've smoked for a long time and I still like it. Changing how I smoke in public places won't really change when I smoke and besides, the smoking area here is quite a social space and that's one benefit I didn't foresee.
On balance it's all working out quite well for everyone.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
One better day.
There was one better day than today.
Things had much more fluidity, more motion, more life.
Today we all learned something new.
Learned how the air has it's own character in our nostrils.
Learned that the sun goes down and rises with or without us.
We felt skin under our fingertips, life in our hands.
We saw the road again, the one most travelled and realised we had never looked at it before now.
We learned humility in the face of our greatest challenge.
We found strength in our faith in nothing but ourselves.
We looked and saw the truth, hard as it was we faced it alone and walked forward.
We slipped away into our own thoughts of love and sealed ourself in.
We walked away, didn't turn back and never wavered.
We ended the battle and won, integrity intact.
We loved and didn't lose.
We found ourself, decided it was the only truth and disappeared into the night.
Never to be seen again, we will always be remembered.
Always to be remembered.
Things had much more fluidity, more motion, more life.
Today we all learned something new.
Learned how the air has it's own character in our nostrils.
Learned that the sun goes down and rises with or without us.
We felt skin under our fingertips, life in our hands.
We saw the road again, the one most travelled and realised we had never looked at it before now.
We learned humility in the face of our greatest challenge.
We found strength in our faith in nothing but ourselves.
We looked and saw the truth, hard as it was we faced it alone and walked forward.
We slipped away into our own thoughts of love and sealed ourself in.
We walked away, didn't turn back and never wavered.
We ended the battle and won, integrity intact.
We loved and didn't lose.
We found ourself, decided it was the only truth and disappeared into the night.
Never to be seen again, we will always be remembered.
Always to be remembered.
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Eventful
The past seven days at work have been eventful to say the least.
Last Friday during my lunch break I was taken on a short cruise between two locks on a narrow boat by a lovely couple who's names I don't know.
Then on Tuesday and Wednesday the computers at work went down so I really didn't have a lot of work to do.
Yesterday I saved a baby crow who had fallen out of his tree and broken his leg. I fed him water and milk from a teaspoon and he perked up before I took him to the PDSA for them to fix him up.
Sadly today nature balanced things out and a bird wedged himself into the grill of my van. It's the way it has to be I suppose.
Hopefully tomorrow will be event free and nothing will be dead or injured.
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www.mikistrange.com
Last Friday during my lunch break I was taken on a short cruise between two locks on a narrow boat by a lovely couple who's names I don't know.
Then on Tuesday and Wednesday the computers at work went down so I really didn't have a lot of work to do.
Yesterday I saved a baby crow who had fallen out of his tree and broken his leg. I fed him water and milk from a teaspoon and he perked up before I took him to the PDSA for them to fix him up.
Sadly today nature balanced things out and a bird wedged himself into the grill of my van. It's the way it has to be I suppose.
Hopefully tomorrow will be event free and nothing will be dead or injured.
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www.mikistrange.com
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