Wednesday 26.02.2014

So many things to think about this morning forgot them all and went for an early walk instead. Freezing wind - woolly hat once more required - and low, grey sky but good yomping once we got going.
Priorities for the day re-ordered on the way round and guess what - at least half of it will wait until next week.

And dog keen to help: always enthusiastically collects a bit of firewood - needs a bit of help to work out how to get it home.......

.....doh!

Wednesday 19.02.2014

At last! No rain, no wind,no snow, a lukewarm but determined sun,one lark per square yard of sky and you could almost forget all the mud underfoot.
Diamond encrusted grasses,

light and dark, shade and shadow, silhouettes

and blinged-up trees.

Makes you stand up straighter and take deep breaths.

Friday 07.02.2014

Rain, work, work, rain, more rain, more work - eurgh, must be February. Today though a brisk and business like sort of winter`s day....though more rain and wind forecast for the weekend.
However, lots of blues - blue hills in the distance, blue sky between the clouds,


blue-grey lichens

and new growth on the pine trees looking...blue-ish. Birds giving it laldy and sun with a bit of warmth in the woods....could almost be (whisper it) a touch of S****g.........
......until tomorrow anyway.

Sunday 26.01.2014

The first sleety blizzard apparently straight off the Urals arrived just as we topped the hill at about 9 this morning. The wind wasn`t quite so fierce in the woods (trees...blah....plant more....blah...shelter blah)but the white stuff soon began to settle and the black road we`d walked up was white by the time we turned back.

The snow turned to rain but by tonight, back late from work, it`s all sparkle and crackling frost and zillions of stars in a clear sky.

Friday 24.01.2014

Freezing,eye-watering wind making the wires hum and the metal gates wail mournfully. Dry, though, and good for walking and cobweb dispersal.

N.B. - on the way up the hill on the open road, woolly hat + woolly headband + several layers of clothes only just enough
- in the woods, woolly hat + woolly headband + several layers of clothes a bit too much.....

I refer to Item 2 on my New Year`s Day list of 10 things and rest my case........

Wednesday 22.01.2014

Question: is there a causal link between brain stimulation and physical energy?

After a morning spent reading some really hard stuff felt so full of energy could have run round the woods - if I actually liked running that is. Instead walked extremely fast into the cold and wet, the rain at least easing up long enough for woolly hat and waterproof jacket to come off for a while.
Thought there`d only be time before work to do short version but walking so damned fast managed the full circuit in record time......so here`s the thing....was I so energized because:
a) I`d been reading something that fired up the brain so much it had somehow filtered down to my legs...or
b) I`d been sitting so long the legs were simply crying out for some action?

And who wrote those legs anyway...............

Meanwhile here`s some nice provocative stuff to mull over and get the brain going all over again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qcw04

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/sorry-david-blunkett--but-russell-brand-has-a-point-9078393.html

Friday 17.01.2014

First day off this week and weather seriously damp and grey but enough of a break to scuttle round the woods this afternoon.
Wet grass, wet trees, wet dogs, wet feet but even though it was soon raining again it simply felt so much less depressing by the time we got back.
And talking of less depressing: fancy a book about teenagers with cancer, death and the meaning of life? No? Too morbid? Absolutely not. Quite brilliant.