Last night, we had a powercut; it was annoying because it occurred just after I arrived at taekwon-do, so class got cancelled. It lasted only half an hour, but we had another one during the night, so I woke up to find that I had to reset my bedside clock once again ( Read more... )

Yesterday's volunteering went well - there was a lot of having to sweep up the autumn leaves before we could do any planting though; it was a chore, and I did intend to do a run after work, but then saw that colleagues were going to the pub and decided to join them instead, I'll usually choose the pub over a run, its just how I am ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I spent a lot of the day at work on learning events; a course on designing towns with women and girls in the morning, and then a photography course in the afternoon. We did a bit of a walk around and put into practise some of the skills we'd discussed, like using the grid option on the phone camera to help keep photos straight; I liked ( Read more... )

My three priorities at the moment are:
1. Sort out drafting some new GIS datasets, which I hope to do this morning
2. Attend today's photography course; and
3. Do a 15-mile recce around town for the Stag Walkers.


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Here's one of my best shots from yesterday's tour.


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On a miserable wet day, we start Optimistic October.


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This morning, I wrote down three things I appreciate about myself ( Read more... )

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One of those days when I find myself having to say no to the most tantalising last-minute offers, one lunch with friends because of a meeting and also a pub visit with a friend, just so I could make it to taekwon-do easily, and there's always a bit of my head telling me I could have gone along for half an hour and made it to taekwon-do, but also ( Read more... )

I got a little stressed over little things midway through posting yesterday's entry; doing better today, and went out to buy a new rucksack, with Mum helping.

I passed through the cemetery (well, churchyard), but same thing really, so I got a picture for the new photo_scavenger prompt (you guessed it, cemetery; outstanding: experimental).


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