Posted in Art, Change, Home, Personal Growth, Skills, Thoughts, Time, achievement, families, goals, tagged goals, Ideas, taske on November 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Six months ago, I wrote a blog about what I hoped would be my goals for the next six months and whether I had achieved or stuck to them. I wanted to simply look back and recap on what they were and the results.
I grew some lettuce and planted some onions and carrots. The lettuce was [...]
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Posted in Change, Climate Change, Debate, Environment, Learning, Modern society, Politics, Thoughts, achievement, tagged Author, Carbon Dioxide, Change the World, Climate Change, Education, Environment, Green House Gasses, Jonathan Neale, Meeting, Speaker, Stop Global Warming on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday evening was very exciting. I nearly didn’t go. It had been a surprising up-hill week in someways. It shouldn’t have been. I had only been working since Wednesday. But that was the problem. Having enjoyed a lovely long weekend, I just could not get back into work.
Anyway, I decided to go with Mr E to [...]
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Posted in Art, Skills, Thoughts, Women, achievement, tagged Flowers, Funeral, Interest, Skill, wreath on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I thoroughtly enjoyed creating the pictured floral wreath for a funeral tomorrow. It felt pleasing to have not lost my touch since my floristy training over 10 yrs ago. There is not much time to do this kind of work very often.
I thought back to my days as a florist student in the shop as [...]
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Posted in Art, Change, Home, Learning, Personal Growth, Relationships, Skills, Thoughts, Writing, achievement, families, tagged Camera, Climate Change, Environment, Fun, Gardening, goals, King's Lynn Transition Town, Library, Lookingout, photography, Short-term, Social Life, Study, Today, Vegetables on April 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Today, I go to a library return some books and find the last pieces of information to tweak an assignment. Three and a half years of study is drawing to a close-well, in this chapter anyway. But of course my commitment to life long learning goes on but also to learn not just out of [...]
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Posted in Change, Children, Health, Home, Learning, Modern society, Personal Growth, Skills, Thoughts, Time, achievement, families, goals, tagged Blogging, Computers, Flickr, Fun, Home Environement, Internet, Learning, Leisure, Rest, Stress, Work life balance on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A mini-post for today.
Life generally feels so much better these days and I thought a few observations about this feeling would be worth posting this morning. Stress is something that has plagued me a lot in my life, that learning to handle it better did seem essential only a few weeks back. There is one thing [...]
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Posted in Change, Debate, Modern society, Politics, Skills, Thoughts, achievement, tagged Actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, authority, Barack Obama, Elections, G.W Bush, Job, Leader, Position, President, President-elect, Qualified, Ronald Regan, Sarah Palin, Terminator on November 9, 2008 | 7 Comments »
This week has seen Barack Obama’s success in securing the position of 44th President of the United States of America. Our new President-elect is now in a transition phase from senator to President, formally taking this office in January 2009. I for one welcome the change. Sorry folks, to those of you living in the [...]
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Posted in Art, Learning, Music, Religion, Skills, Thoughts, Time, Writing, achievement, tagged Books, British Library, Euston Rd, History, Learning, London, ModernBuilding, Museum, Outing, Visit on October 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From its outside appearance, from the road, the British Library could almost be mistaken for a red brick supermarket, small un-assuming and rather plain building, sitting next to St Pancras railway station. You entre the main entrance and you not sure what to expect next. And then, much to your surprise, you realise you have only just touched the [...]
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Posted in Change, Children, Commitment, Debate, Home, Ideas, Learning, Personal Growth, Psychology, Relationships, Skills, Thoughts, achievement, goals, tagged Critical thinking, Daughter, Discussion, goals, Learning, Pupil, Reflection, School, self-esteem, Tasks on September 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The word learning will have many different meanings to people and how their own views, believes, perceptions and thoughts, when pondering upon its definition, will differ and perhaps extend to another word linked to learning, that being education. Education and learning for me, and to many other thinkers, philosophers, teachers and writers will be words viewed as a process entwined both together as well as separately. To be educated does not [...]
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Posted in Change, Commitment, Learning, Liberation, Personal Growth, Psychology, Skills, Sport, Thoughts, Writing, achievement, goals, tagged Barriers, Fear, mind, Phobia, poem, Prison, Swimming on August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A prison was often not of walls when you are free.
A prison can be a place where you yourself can place thee.
A prison may be a state of mind that surrounds you.
A prison might be a frozen place for thoughts that haunt too.
A prison could be a place of silence, fears and tears.
A prison is [...]
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Posted in Change, Learning, Modern society, Personal Growth, Skills, Thoughts, Writing, achievement, goals, tagged Blog, Computers, Flickr, I phone, Learning, Machines, photography, Skills, Steel, Tech-ie, Technology, wordpress on July 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
My nick name from the guy at home is TIG-er. Always has been since we first met. Now I am becoming Tech-ie Tig as my skills in technology grows by the day. I am taking a pause from my serious women’s stuff and want to spend , hopefully, a creative time explaning why I am a [...]
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