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Wide vistas and few thoughts
Tweet From this vantage point I am looking out over Auckland and the surrounding countryside and it is beautiful. It’s a huge city, one of the biggest in the world, but so spread out and with so much greenery in parks and gardens that it feels spacious. Places like this are good for gaining new […]
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Walking the tide-lines of my life
Tweet …and finding rich treasures. I am in New Zealand, which was my home for many years and which is my home when I am here, which I am for another precious week. tonight I walked along my favourite beach with a friend and no camera. It’s been stormy from the weather pattern that crossed […]
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Retreat to Renew
Tweet Pause, learn, heal, play and move forward Lower Largo, Fife, April 29th – May 1st 2011 Positive change to last a lifetime Be creative and appreciate YOU! Join us. Enjoy, be and renew Living foods, sea vegetables, fun, relaxation and nature Self renewal and food for healing Expert teachers Me – Judy Barber – […]
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Getting over myself and into my blog
Tweet Not only have I had an ailing laptop that would only travel at three miles per hour, then no laptop when it was being fixed and then a fixed computer that I was trying to catch up with everything on, but I have had ‘writer’s blog block’, which I hope is not contageous. This […]
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Greetings From New Zealand
Tweet After a long busy autumn and some winter that was exceptionally cold and snowy I made it through the snow (two suitcases pulled like sledges over two feet of snow) to Edinburgh Airport and after 30 hours of delays was on my way. I now have two more glorious months here staying with good […]
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Thinking About Autumn | Get More Energy
Tweet OK, so it came earlier than I wanted it to because it wasn’t the hottest of summers, but autumn is lovely now it is here. I had frost patterns on my windscreen for the first time and there are drifts of crunchy gold leaves nearby. Down in the dell there are the last elderberries […]
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A Personal Development Group in Edinburgh
Tweet What do a red wooden box, a seagull and pink tissue paper have to do with personal development? Guests at the first meeting of the new monthly Edinburgh Coaching Support Group, on Wednesday 1st September, found out when Moira Beaton gave a well-crafted and beautifully delivered speech with unexpected metaphors that inspired us all […]
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Caffeine-free day number three
Tweet Oh bother, I’m realising this means no chocolate either, even the raw kind. I had been indulging a bit more recently so it will be interesting to do without and say no if offered. ‘Interesting’ in this case is putting a positive slant on things! Even though I hadn’t been drinking a lot of […]
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Taking it slowly and without caffeine
Tweet I gave up coffee on Valentine’s day 2008 and have not had a cup since. It was very hard at first, for months in fact, as I had been using nice little doses to get me going on things and as part of my rhythm. It’s a sneaky drug, even in the very weak […]