reasons to be grateful

World peace by lunchtime

2009-10-20T06:22:00.000+13:00

Here's a nice video I stumbled over today, an old standard done by an ensemble band that doesn't stink of the shambles of efforts like Band Aid in the past.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for Bob Marley?

Playing For Change | Song Around The World "One Love" from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

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look up chicken licken

2009-10-08T23:36:00.000+13:00

"Refuse to let your present results influence your thinking. Keep reminding yourself that you have a power within you that is superior to any condition or circumstance you may encounter enroute to your goal."

Bob Proctor

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Special girls to be grateful for

2009-03-15T14:11:00.004+13:00

First team Home 2009
Originally uploaded by ninefish.

Three of them gave the weetbix tryathlon a good go today, India was third out of the pool and Henny was first round the bike leg, meaning that Jordi was also first round the run leg, making all three of them the first team home in the day's racing.

We then went home for pancakes and walked back a while later for the prize giving formalities

Worth consideration and sharing

2009-02-12T13:28:00.002+13:00

lessons learned from quote of the day

2009-02-02T11:41:00.001+13:00

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

Lewis L. Dunnington

and thus: I commit to enjoy every experience I create

very sad now

2009-01-31T10:25:00.007+13:00

Heard this morning from my little brother that big John died yesterday

he's been a part of my ears for the last thirty one years, I'll really miss him.

Juli asked him to come and play at our wedding, he couldn't: but he sent some stuff instead, he was played off CDs at the next wedding and I doubt there's been a day when he hasn't been heard at our house at some time during the day, his stuff is on heavy rotation here.

Thanks John, it's been a blast. I feel grateful to have caught you once live [still sad though]

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It's funny, but there are days I miss the old girl

2009-01-27T15:53:00.001+13:00

Oak House
Originally uploaded by ahisgett.

We used to play bowls on the crown green behind the house. Ian Knight lived just over the road, and there were a couple of early dates that went around the gardens. Good times :-)

Compare and contrast

2009-01-08T13:23:00.002+13:00

I subscribe to a tool that lets me see photos that are uploaded tagged with West Bromwich sometimes it's just "the Public" which is very popular amongst the local photographers. But every now and again a gem comes across my desk and today it's a very amusing one [to me at least].

The juxtaposition of allotments and the beach.

I used to live in front of some waste land we optimistically called The Allottments and whilst it's full on summer here and coming into winter there here's two images, both taken in winter:

One from the UK...

Oldbury Allotment
Originally uploaded by Michael C Clark.

And one from NZ...

From the winter bedroom
Originally uploaded by ninefish.

This is why I haven't been back yet.

If you're in Oldbury or Tipton, please go visit my mum, she's just fallen over and broken her ankle, she might like a sherry and a kind word right now

GLOATING [reasons to be glad I'm not you]

2009-01-07T18:40:00.003+13:00

Because right now it's 30 degrees,I'm lounging on the upstairs balcony outside my bedroom, I can see the inland Kaikouras, the ocean and the Southern Alps without straining my neck,it's quiet, I have a wireless laptop keeping my nuts warm, dinner is cooking and the kids are remarkably quiet after a surf and swim this afternoon.

The ice cream van's music hasn't changed in the time and distance shift to NZ, it's still playing Greensleeves in an effort to entice us all out to buy one tonight.

Queenstown break is booked and almost organised and someone is playing the Eurythmics a little too loud somewhere in the street

I will chase the ice cream van pretty soon if he doesn't move on though

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No! I am tigger!

2009-01-04T21:01:00.001+13:00

I thought I was the only one?

Old timer's roost

2008-08-30T11:23:00.001+12:00

The Tower Cinema, West Bromwich
Originally uploaded by projectkevp.

Now I'm into my first pair of bifocals, I can tear up a little to see this old girl again...
Used to walk past this place twice a day, and yearn to go in most of the time, even if only to the ABC minors on a Saturday morning

Good times

The Tower Cinema, West Bromwich

Social Web

2008-08-03T14:46:00.003+12:00

It's a hard life on the bleeding edge, hat tip to Ben @ diversity for spotting this and making it apparent

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It wasn't me

2008-08-03T14:39:00.001+12:00

thanks Mike for the set up

it's a video , follow the link to see the rest of it as I can't see a way to embed it here.

screen grab below:

I was setup!

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Touché India

2008-05-01T16:05:00.002+12:00

Just for you sweetheart a grammar lesson in a cartoon
Savage Chickens: Why Work Hard? Cartoon

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happiness

2008-03-06T09:38:00.001+13:00

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

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Listening to: Rickie Lee Jones - Vessel Of Light

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Good or bad, you choose

2008-02-20T08:55:00.001+13:00

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad
fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into
something of value.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, Novelist and Poet

Suddenly everything I own smells of you <3

2008-02-15T13:18:00.001+13:00

Thanks, snow patrol

you choose

2008-02-08T09:06:00.000+13:00

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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Make contact personal

2007-11-20T17:05:00.000+13:00

make personal contact

another chance at that 15 minutes of fame

2007-11-19T14:24:00.000+13:00

i can't resist sharing this, some time ago in April I made a comment on Scoble's blog about his April fool ruse today he's letting us all know about a real product that's very similar to the vapourware he joked about

My amusement lies in the fact that he quotes me :-)

Robert Scoble noticed me yipee!

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Change the world or go home

2007-11-19T14:21:00.000+13:00

A compelling argument to do something rather than do nothing

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I'll let Hugh speak for me

2007-10-30T06:23:00.000+13:00

Sometimes you just see something that reminds you of things you think in the quiet recesses of your mind. This one came from the dark recesses of Hugh's mind. We must be twins.

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the youth of today, an old man smiles

2007-09-20T15:54:00.000+12:00

Saw a link to this story it's something we can all be grateful to, and something for our children to aspire to.

there is abundance and good out there, and not too far to look to find it either.

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GAR!

2007-09-17T13:14:00.000+12:00

I couldn't resist this before wednesday [International talk like a pirate day]

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my little boy isn't

2007-09-16T07:24:00.000+12:00

he's a big boy now, here he is grading for his yellow tip

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