getting stuff done: creating my life

I am off, to work, tomorrow.  On and early early train.  I shall be staying at my brother's in London Fields and then more work on Wednesday. Then home. 

I AM WELL.  (trying that trick again see) 

No.  Nothing more to say today.

Got to take some Yoga study stuff.  Remember..... anti perspirant.  Don't want to be sweaty!! Remember get tickets. 

So train at 6.50 ish.  Get there early to get all tickets.  6.30 should be fine.  Leave house 6ish.  I think I'll get a cab tomorrow. Sod it.  Been ill.  Conserve energy.  OK.  got cash.  Got travel card.  Got make up.  Got stayover stuff.  (get toothbrush) will it rain? check forecast? take brolly? 

PHONE! where is is it? got it.  OK yes. stop now.  BYE

Dance inspires... from n*tertainment on Vimeo.

I haven't been managing a post every day.  I have slipped on my regime.  Though for the most part this is because for the last - oh god  - too many - days I have been sick with the same goddam sickness.  And its utterly dull to moan about one's own health so I have refrained. 

I think I am going to try for Teesha Moore's maxim of just going for a positive affirmation instead.


I AM WELL

Thank you.

Its been a bit of a week.  It started on Sunday what with the car breaking down and then us being threatened with a flick knife by a mad man (who luckily just wanted to show off and went on his 'merry' way once we had backed off a the sight of his blade....) its a long story, shall I tell it?

So this geezer deliberately bumped into me and started having a go at me.  My husband stood up for me, and soon there was a bit of a scuffle as looney geezer started on him instead.  He hit my husband, and luckily my husband did not hit him back. I rushed over to intervene.... well,  he was a weasely looking fellow and despite the aggressive talk did  not look at all threatening. When i got there, Mr Weasle was shouting' "I'll f*cking DO YER" and then I saw him get his knife out.  It was a flick knife, the kind that pops out,  very pointy....... I said to my hub, "He's got a knife" and we just backed off, totally, withdrew.  And Looney fellow swaggered off shouting to a stranger, "SEE WHAT I HAVE TO PUT UP WITH!"  It was very odd.

It did however eclipse the car breaking down.  And our overriding thoughts are, "At least we are not stabbed" because, lets face it,  that would have been really, really bad.

So after that I had a day of calling folk for work, which I had to abandon half way through due to a supremely sore throat.  And I was due to go away to the lovely Hawthbush Farm on a yoga study break.  Convinced my throat would be better the next day, I took flu tablets and nurofen and ploughed on forward, just avoiding speaking as much as possible...  But by Wednesday morning, as I was doing Yoga and being told to 'listen to my body' by my fellow yoga teacher trainee, I realised that I could not go on.  Body was telling me to go to bed.  and sleep.  So that is what I had to do.  So not much of a yoga study break.  More of a sleep break.  

When I got home I found the TV broken and the car fixed but ooops past its MOT date.  Oh its been a catalogue of little bits of mishaps.  And I damn well still have a sore throat.  No, hang on, I AM WELL. 

And we have a new TV.  We had one delievered, but it was faulty, we took it back,  in the courtesy car from the mechanic, because car FAILED its MOT, got another one, got that home, THAT was fautly too........ sigh. 

But we are not stabbed.  And...... I AM WELL. 

I have the oddest of colds, flus, viruses, sore throats, whatevers.  I was really sick on Saturday. On Sunday I felt on the mend.  On Monday it returned just as bad as Saturday.  Tuesday, felt on the mend.  Today.  Sick as a dog again.  Throat is main issue.  SO sore. Can't speak.  Feel like a shaky energy less lump.  Am gutted as am here on a yoga retreat, and am meant to be revising my course for our finals.  I am going to do exams study, i.e. anatomy, sanskrit, philosophy.  But I do not have the energy to be doing asana.  I tried yesterday, I have tried to keep going through the pain and keep hoping the infection is receding.  But it isn't.  And so I am in bed.  At least it is a very lovely bed. And at least I am here with 3 yoga teachers two of whom are practically nutritionists, so I have the healthiest of foods to eat and people making me fresh ginger and lemon tea.  I have also been made to eat a clove of raw garlic with my salad.   I hope it helps.  I hope something helps otherwise I am really worried.  This year I have been so sick.  I just am not normally like this.  sigh. 

Hello I am in deepest.  Sussex.  I think.  its the country. i have been doing lots of yoga study.  not quite as good for you as doing yoga as lots of stopping and figuring out stuff.  like how to adjust, or how to safely get out of postures, or how to pronouce this or that.  etc.  But its beautiful here.  My bed is ENORMOUS.  I am very lucky. 

I don't think I can actually post from here.  As in the iPad.  But hey. (Hey it worked!)  I wanted to write.  Sore throat is definitely on the mend.   Yesterday I had to get up and seek painkillers in order to sleep.  This morning I felt OK when I woke up.  Not that that lasted, and I have taken some now.  But hey.  It's better than yesterday!!  Always good.

What if money didn't matter - Alan Watts from Evoke & Evolve on Vimeo.

Last night, and for a few days actually m since I watched this video again.  I am going to have to find it now.....  (found it!! its here now) About what won of you do if money didn't matter.  It's a good question.  I thought I would sped a bit of time writing what it was that I liked to actually spend my time doing.  I was surprised actually as I came up with a list of things that I am doing.

Make Art
Make things
Going on art retreats
Cooking good food
Yoga
Getting involved in cool rejects
Meeting interesting people
Blogging
Hanging out with Bub
Travelling and visiting friends (ok I need to do more of this one )
Working on building a stylish wardrobe and having a nicely decorated home
Local baby sales
Art workshops
Supporting causes I believe in
Being greener

I can say that in all of these things I could do more.  But it was deeply reassuring that I am. O the right track.  These are the ways I enjoy spending my time, and I would enjoy spending perhaps more of my time doing these things if I were richer.  But I wouldn't change any of it.  Perhaps I would travel more, hire a cleaner, pay people to help me do up my house, or I won ld go on more art retreats, yoga holidays, have a bigger art studio, get solar heating etc.  but its all just more of what I am doing already.  I am actually on the right track for me.

Having said that.  This morning I read this....  Post from Gypsy Love Cafe, and felt really inspired.  So there is some part of me that also would pick up and take off and live a wild and feral life, doing yoga and art and finding my tribe.  Living outside for a while.  In the sunshine.   So.  Maybe that dream needs a little injection of practical action!!

I have a raging sore throat.  its agony unless I am doped up on ibroprufen.  Hey ho.  I hope it goes before Monday as I am off to Hawthbush Farm to do yoga study.  Am looking forwar to the peace and quiet and the yoga and the food.  It will all be super clean and healthy as we are all making it to everyone's intolerances!! ha ha! I guess that is what it is.  But we will be practically grain free, definitely meat free and probably dairy free too.  Lots of fresh vegetables and a side of quinoa please! Lots of herbal teas of all persuasions!  And we will each have a double bed and some of will get ensuites too.  Only 4 of us in a house that is meant for a large party.  SIGH.  in a good way. 

Check it out.... here

http://www.saniapell.com/athomeblog/inspiring-places/a-countryside-retreat-%E2%80%93-hawthbush-farm/

I am feeling SOOO rotten.  bleurgh.  COLD GO AWAY!!!!!!!

Just a quickie.  Cos its late and I want to sleep.  I went to London today to check up on some of my productivity 'students'  All doing really well.  I really liked that one lady seems really invigorated by the course, and it has prompted her to have a 'project me' which involves making more time to do what she loves and be more sociable.  I love it when it does that.

I got home early as one appointment was cancelled.  Got home to hear that my wee boy is top of his class in reading, and likes to go to the book corner and read books to other children.  BLESS!  Proud mummy moment.

Next week I am away for a few days at Hawthbush Farm  (with my fellow  final year yoga teacher trainees (final year) we are doing a study break.  Nice that we have a super fancy luxurious and lovely place to do it.  we have the whole Cowshed for just the 4 of us!!)

And even though it is going to mean I have to do admin at the evenings and weekend as I have a lot of work coming up, it means I am going to have 3 and a half whole days of yoga practice and time to study for my final exam and assessment.  Which I don't think would have happened had we not had the idea to go away and do our study.

Right O.  Off to bed!!

I had a day of admin today.  I am finding it amazing how much time little iddy bits of stuff can take.  Especially now that I am time sheeting my actual paid work. .. Mind you I am waiting on quite a lot of stuff at the moment.  So can't actually do much about it.  Apart from chasing.  And there is only so much of that you can do.  I will be using the phone tomorrow.....

And I did get lot of things that needed to get done done.  Iddy biddy - yet still important stuff.  Done and out of the way.  Yes.

And after school, as Hub is off in London today (and this evening) it was a me and Bub afternoon.

Hub and I had had a chat earlier about whether to make Bub continue in his dance class.  He isn't really enjoying it much, and it is expensive.  However we haven't helped because we haven't been supporting him in helping him learn his routine, or getting involved that much in it all.  It had been Bub's keen ness in the first place that had lead us to take him to a class.  But he isn't really very engaged, and we had been planning on just dropping it.  Hub felt that we were teaching him quitting, and that really we ought to try being more invovled, learning the routine with him, getting excited about it, and see if that supports him and makes it more fun for him.  And generally we had a chat about the principle of us needing to be behind him a little more, helping him and supporting him.  I am not sure if street dance really is his thing, but we thought that us supporting him might make the difference, and we ought to try that, and also he ought to continue until the show, after going the distance, and achieving something that he might well be really proud of himself for doing.  Ha! Hopefully anyway!!

Well its an experiment.  It feels a bit lame to just stop halfway through.  Bub can be a bit half hearted about anything (unless it is eating chocolate or watching Tom & Jerry on TV) so we are resolved to try a bit harder.

Which lead on to me not turning the TV on at all this evening.  He does demand it, and says he loves it.  From my point of view, I find that if he does watch too much TV or play Angry Birds too much, he actually gets really stroppy and whiney.  He will deny this of course, vocally!! But I find it to be true.  And whether there is just cause to this or not, I don't believe in entertainment.  Well not too much of it anyway.  What I mean by that, is that I fundamentally BELIEVE that you have to MAKE your own fun.  Otherwise its not fun, its......... entertainment. 

So this afternoon I decided to be firm and insist on no TV.  He did get very stroppy and we had a few incidents of stuff throwing anger at not getting his own way.  But he calmed down, he played for a while, he came voluntarily to help me cook dinner, which he ate large amounts of (even though the options previously had been BORING! I'M NOT EATING THAT), we then decided to make pancakes for pudding.  Quite experimentally as I didn't have any eggs.  (turns out you can make pancakes without eggs) After that we did 'story gang'  which is getting snuggled in and reading books, he got to choose the books, and we read them after he did a bit of reading practice.  He was delightful, and helpful (clearing up and wiping the table and all) and he chatted away.  It felt really lovely.  And the TV did not go on.  And in the end he forgot to ask about it.

I guess what I am getting to, is that with children, they do require a lot of input from us parents.  and yes it can be easier and less uptight to let him have his way and let him watch loads of TV. But its up to us to educate him, in so many more matters than learning to read or write.  And as he is only 5 we can still insist so much easier.  And get him involved with cooking and talking and inventing his own games.  Its like playing the long game.  And we owe him. At least I want him to know the difference between FUN and entertainment. 

So, I did my class today.  It went really well, I was very happy with it.  Work to do with more observation and areas where my language could have been clearer.  But my favourite bit of my feedback was that I taught with 'calm authority'.  I am pretty damn pleased with that.  I must admit that last year there was no way I could have ever imagined getting that sort of comment. 

I am really pleased and relieved it went well.  Not that I am through with it yet (well, I shall never be 'through' with it, its a continuous journey....) I still have an exam and a final assessment.  Which may include poses I don't yet know how to teach very well.  There are SO MANY to know. 

Me and my fellow final year yogi students are going away next week to stay in the gorgeous Hawthbush Farm.  As we are going midweek we have a brilliant deal on the whole of the Cowshed.  So we will each have a double or a kingsize bed and bedroom to ourselves.  It a very lovely place. And we will be there studying for our exams, practicing all these poses which I can't remember. 

mainly the parivrttas or revovled poses. and adjustments in inversions.  and and and......

I am proud of myself.  And this is my realisation.  And its something Hub used to point out to me, which wound me up no end I can tell you.  But I think he was right....... I don't think I ever really pushed myself very hard.  Or, I didn't reach far enough, or try as much as I could have.  Teaching today went really well, but as a yoga teacher, I will be doing that same amount of effort and attention for every class.  And this is the kind of level I need to be doing all the time.  Its not something I just reach once and then relax (which is how it feels today I must say).  I need to step up to the plate every single time.  And keep doing so.  And keep trying to do things I don't think I can.  Because if you try and you keep trying, you can get there.

I did a back bend the other day.  I have never been able to come up into it before.  It seemed impossible.  And now I can.  I can do crow pose too.  It is odd, it was just a balance thing, not strength, or flexibility.  Just daring, and leaning forward more than I thought I could. 

So keep trying.  Keep it up.  No resting on laurels (though at least I do have some laurels....)

I missed a day.  I think. I definitely missed an evening.  I fell asleep at about 8pm last night and slept through till morn.  I guess I needed it.  Feel fine today. 

Went to London to the Natural History Museum and saw lots of very big dinosaur bones.  I also hooked up with an old friend whom I have not seen in about 10 years.  She has been living a war zone kind of life.  As in in Afghanistan, not as in personal drama.  She has a lovely wee daughter and a tattooed husband (apparently, I didn't meet him) who is currently working for the UN in Bosnia. 

She has also written a book which I am looking forward to reading.  A fiction based on her family history.  Which is also quite steeped in Middle Eastern historical events. 

Bub and I bumped into a friend from his class on the train which was great for him and me.  Small boys love a bit of same age company.  Much hiding in the den under the table ensued (and that was just us mums....)

I am writing  - and yet I have a yoga class assessment tomorrow.  I need to plan a pranayama class.  that lasts an hour. 

Better crack on. 

Hey.  I am keeping them coming.  I wasn't going to write today.  I wasn't feeling it.  And in fact I was feeling discombobulated again.   Slightly on the verge of feeling a bit gloomy and sorry for myself to be honest.  Not a good look in blogging.  Not something I want to be sharing with the world I thought.  And so I wrote in my book instead.  I like writing to work things out.  Sometimes I have done this too brazenly in public and I didn't really want to do that.  However, by the time I got to the end of my writing.  I had managed to go from a sense of life being drowned in its own administration and small pointless acts of bravery culminating in hollow victories.   That any goal once reached is never is so good as seems so beforehand etc etc.  Which can be true and was and is for me, often enough.  And yet. I can't just leave it like that.  There must be some sort of answer. And so I just kept asking myself questions. Trying to figure out what it was that was bothering me.   I was hungry for something and nothing I could think of was going to satisfy me.  And when you get to that, all that is left is  it being some form of spiritual malaise.  A human condition.  So how to approach it?

well.  here I got to something I was OK with sharing.  It is A GOOD thing to be feeling that there must be something more.  If I sat back and claimed to be satisfied with my life, I would just be repeating myself.  My life would become devoid of vitality and life.  We NEED to keep it alive by reaching to go further.  This notion that we can do better is what keeps us present, it brings animation, attention and keenness to our lives.

SO to stretch towards, further, more.  It enlivens.  So I end, OK with disatisfaction.  There IS more.  And I shall stretch towards it.

xx

I really ought to be putting photos up here as I got some serious booty at the swish last night.  Do you know about swishing? Its just SO COOL!!!  FABULOUS way to get new outfits!  Get your girlfriends together, everyone brings all the stuff they just don't wear anymore (for what ever reason) and its a frenzy of clothes, wine and laughter.  You get feedback, "does this top work?" NO! and someone else with a different body shape tries it and it looks amazing (grr I SO loved the glittery top - but it seriously looked rank on me and gorgeous on her) 

But I did luck out.  I actually got a cardigan that I had been umming and ahing about buying about a year ago.  I loved it, but they didn't have it in my size and I was reluctant to splash out on something that in all honesty was giving an ugly squeeze on my upper arms.  Its a spidery swirly lopsided All Saints thing.  I am seriously happy.  I also got 2 great plain tee shirts, a pair of jeans, a pair of red jeans, a new furry hat, a dark blue cardigan, a stripey top, a strapless dress (needs a little work) and the most AMAZINGly beautiful velvet jacket which I think was some sample from a designer showroom.  Will do a fashion show I promise.

But then my cold which was a bit sneezy and snotty, got worse and worse until today, I was round at a pal's house, and found myself unable to speak from pain in my ear and throat and sitting holding my head in my hands.  She gave me a lemsip, bless her, and that really helped, and then by the time I got home, I had to give up on the idea of going to yoga school and head for bed and a 4 hour kip instead.  Am still feeling pretty rank.  Though definitely not so bad, as I haven't had any cold n flu tablets, lemsip or anything for hours.

Ah well, at least I have a WHOLE NEW WARDROBE.  Which is a feeling I love, and I KNOW it doesn't last, but that feeling of having a whole host of gorgeous new clothes to wear..... its really nice.  And the best thing is, it didn't cost me a penny....

Yesterday I had a bit of time to myself and I found myself pottering with the aim of relaxing.  As in, I know I'll just get a cup of tea sorted, and maybe some toast, and THEN I'll relax.  Sometimes I have to tidy up or clean, and THEN I'll settle in for a bit of chilling. 

But I kind of heard myself doing it yesterday.  And I thought.  Hang on, why wait? Why not make this cup of tea in a relaxed way.  Relax THEN do something!

It worked, I made a leisurely cuppa.  I felt relaxed.  I enjoyed the process.

Its funny a few weeks ago I was pushed for time.  I had unexpected stuff come up that meant the days I thought I had, I didn't.  (Snow days, boilers days, ill days) and today (and yesterday) its been the other way around.  Instead of being stretched to fit stuff in, an event has been postponed, and so I have more time than I was expecting. And so am able to catch up on stuff which has been hanging arounnd my TO DO lists for a while.  Its a good feeling.

Not only that but it is WARMER.  And my first assessment went BETTER than I expected.  A bit of spring like weather and a GOOD MOOD is a real energiser!

xxx

I think it went OK.  Well even.  I got a load of poses find tricy - no surprise there, I guess I was expecting that. But on the other hand, because I find them tricky, it meant that I kind of know how to teach them better.

I am happy with how it went. 

I think I am going to be OK.  I have to teach another class on Sunday, this time its one I have devised myself (as opposed to being presented with a bunch) and it has to be a pranayama class.   Hmm. 

Its odd the house is quiet.  I ought go do something other than this.  Will let you know what later.....

A rather relaxing day of looking after Bub.  A trip to the park and an art work shop.  Yoga this evening.

Hmm.  yes its day 5 and I really have nothing much to say.  Hub is here asking me what I am doing.  And suggesting (unsuitable) ideas for blog posts.

I have a yoga test tomorrow.  I am OK with it.  I am figuring that if it hasn't gone in now, then its just too late now.

I can't write this now.  Hub is chatting away about ballet, electric cars, big data. .....  And here's me being very anti social.  And I fancy a snack too. 

OK.  nope. nothing coming.  OH YES there is.  I made a decision.  Re the Yoga.  I have a BIG HAIRY GOAL.  I am going to earn, via teaching yoga ALL The money it cost me to do the teacher training course.  I like it.  Its finite.  It is achievable and its motivating.

I am happy with all that I have learnt on this course.  I feel my life is richer for it.  I wasn't sure I really wanted to become a yoga teacher off the back of it.  But at the same time, if I don't teach yoga, then, well, its a bit of a waste.  I want to carry on with it, and keep immersed in it.  It gives me vitality and that is just plain good.  I don't want to give up on it.  SO that is one goal set.  

will keep you posted

(NOTE - I did write this yesterday.  On the ipad.  And then it wouldn't pubish.  I don't know why.  I need to visit the genius bar to get some technical assistance on various things...... but here is the cut n pasted and emailed to myself post I wrote....)

Day 3
Am on the iPad. At the kitchen table. I am eating a bowl of cereal. I am not feeling altogether well in the belly. I am not sure that the whole kefir experiment is going as well as it should!!

Bub and I spent the day at a friends new house. It's a proper cottage in the deep dark woods. Down the end of a muddy lane. What a swell place to live! Those boys of theirs are going to have right good n  fond memories of
growing up roaming free in the woods. A stream at the bottom of the garden. A little bridge, acres of forest, lots of moss and lichen and badgers and rabbits and all. Must say I felt a twang of jealousy and cottage in the deep dark woods envy.  Even though I do love my Brighton existence!

I have returned not feeling entirely right, not in my gut (literally) and not in my self. Something needs attention. I am not yet sure what. I feel as if I am teetering on the edge of something else but not knowing what it is yet. I am Unclear as to what way. Do you ever get those moments? It's like a crossroads but all the paths are still to be discovered. Ach. Something. I've that. Or maybe it's all nothing, and I just feel a bit iffy. And it will pass and all will resume. 

OH........(realisation)  maybe it's because the big goals that were ahead of me for a long time are now passed, or ending soon. And there is this sense of, lost ness. What now ness? My yoga teacher training, is nearly over. (well, if I pass it is!!!!) and it's been two years.  Similarly with work, since meeting the People Who do,  the plan has been to get me out there, managing and delivering the AP workshop, and now I am. So whereas it did have this end game, it's now not got an end to it.

I need to think and work out what to do next with both those areas of my life, neither have an end point or a
next step to them!!

Well, I guess I have at least worked out why I feel nebulous and unsure! Off to work out some new goals / end points and some new next
steps......

Sent from my iPad

Today was sunny again and I spent the morning doing yoga.  YES.  4 hours of it.  Totally enjoyed it, and felt rather tired by it.  Ustrasana at the end there, I seemed to just not be able to find the muscle strength I needed! phew.  Imagine if I did that everyday.  I'd be so strong.

I have a test / assessment on Tuesday.  I really had better prepare a little tonight and tomorrow.

Not sure what I have to say today. But I have found the post that should have come up yesterday.  Am going to post that first anyway. 

There.

In the afternoon Bub and I went to the park.  Where we bumped into many people and had some good chats.  Well I had good chats whereas Bub played some intense game of warfare of sorts.  Him and a pal had found a couple of enemies in a 6 year old and 4 year old and the 'battle' went all over the park.  I loved the mash up of semi understood knowledge of world war II and Fantastic Mr Fox. ("we were playing spitfires, spitfires are a kind of bomb, they look like pine cones that are burning at the top") 

I bumped into the guy who might sell me his old camera today.  They are such a nice couple them two.  Anyway, it was good because I had sent him a text message to let him know that I was interested if he did get around to selling it..... and he hadn't replied, so I was worried it was the wrong number etc etc.  But he has my number.  If he decides to sell....  

I think I might make photography my new project to replace Yoga teacher training. 

And I came up with an OUTCOME for my yoga.  I am going to get a class and or do workshops, with the aim of *(at least) earning back the money it cost me to do the course.  I have some way to go. But I like the idea.  It involves me getting my act together in that whole 'teaching yoga' area, and it has a nice finite achieveable goal at the end of it.  Its a good purpose!

Ah, it was another cold cold snowy sleety day here in Brighton.  I spent the morning at Funplex, which is a kind of special hell for grown ups, though the smalls seem to enjoy it pretty much. I think everyone there was gritting their teeth and wishing we were all out in the sunshine in a park or on a beach or some such warm natural environment instead.  Even the kids, if they had stopped running and shouting might have felt this too. 

Its getting to be a little dismal this cold cold grey sleety weather.  Everyone is getting a teeny bit grinchy.  And with 19 days of school holiday.  I guess Funplex itself was at least making a gain from it.  If it had been sunny, it would have been deserted.

Luckily I had managed to persuade a few other parents to bring their offspring along too, so it wasn't so bad.  I met some new folk and got to know some others better.  I am practicing listening at the moment.  I kind of invented this motto for myself yesterday.  SLOW DOWN and THINK MORE.  Maybe I should have put LISTEN in there.  I am trying to shut up rabbiting on, and really concentrate on asking good questions and listening really well to the answers. 

I am also trying very hard not to do the YES BUT thing.  Instead to respond with a more positive YES AND.  This is more at home where I am less conscious and more apt to jump in with habitual reactions to stuff.  A little listening rule, which is to consciously WAIT for 15 seconds before responding, is helping to bring a little consciousness into my responses, as in - during that 15 seconds I can rephrase a YEAH BUT into a YES AND.  At least this is the plan, and it is what I am trying out at the moment. 

Its a work in progress....... nipping habits and changing them isn't easy.  I will say that this listening mallarky makes for very interesting conversation.  Its hard to think of good questions, but really cool listening to the answers. 

No, I am not having a love affair.  But I rather liked Flora Bowley's post about falling in love again with her blog.  I dip in and out of mine.  But ole Flora has committed to 30 days of blogging.  Anything can go in it, as long as its everyday.  I love overcommitting myself so I thought I would see how much I can join in. 

So HELLO blog.  Today is Thursday and I am meant to be cracking on with my work.  I have very little time it seems, an awful lot of Yoga homework to do, a portrait commission, Yoga study (my finals are coming up), Yoga assesments,  2 Productivity workshops to organise and deliver, and evidently a healthy procrastination habit (WHY ARE YOU BLOGGING WHEN YOU OUGHT TO BE CRACKING ON WITH STUFF)

I really ought to listen to myself.  OK!! short but SWEET! OFF TO WORK I GO