Despite my plan to go to Buttermere yesterday, I woke up this morning and decided to go to Haweswater Resevoir instead, for two reasons, most importantly I checked the weather forecast and it predicted a dry morning for east Cumbria and wet for west and second because I fancied the...
I’m on my second day at Center Parcs, taking advantage of it’s off season prices and proximity to the Northern Lakes. I got up early and after making myself a hearty fry up I headed to the Steamer Pier at Glenridding at the southern tip of Ullswater. Yesterday I’d walked...
I’m on holiday this week and spending it based at the Whinfell Forest Center Parcs in the Lake District, I’m looking forward to it a lot as this will be my first Center Parcs experience. Unfortunately I had to hang around in St Annes for a while because I needed...
I’ve been singing this rhyme in the back of my mind for too many days now and finally it happened, a full day of sunshine. I gloried in it as I sat in the window seat at Caffe Nero this morning, alternating between reading, Sudoko and watching the world go...
Life seems to be too complicated now, when I was a kid life was simple, no bills to pay, house to maintain, computers to backup, food to buy and prepare, retirement to plan for. Then as I got older complexity gradually seeped into my life, I acquired more stuff, more...
In this morning eclectic mix of reading was a post from Tony Schwartz one of my favourite authors talking about the realities of meditation, he opens with this statement of fact: Here’s the promise: Meditation – and mindfulness meditation, in particular – will reduce your cortisol level, blood pressure, social anxiety and...
Amazingly we had sunshine this morning and I woke nice and early, so early in fact that Debbie was still in bed which is a rare treat. When I wake early the only cafe open is Caffe Nero so I headed there for an hours reading and then went for...
I don’t work on Fridays and so to get my frame of mind set right I never think of just Friday, always saying in my mind “rest and relax Fridays” and it works a treat. During the week when I’m feeling a little out of control I just think to...
I started my day off nice and early at Caffe Nero so I could keep my reading list under some semblance of control and so that I had time for a long walking meeting with @MattMJH which we’d decided to do around Rivington, as usual. As my legs were far...
I’m feeling really rough today, pain that started in my ankle and wrist yesterday lunchtime spread to my fingertips and toes and everything in between last night, when I woke up one side of my body was pain free but the other side was still head to toe. On days...