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what do you appreciate more?
I appreciate "me time", and time just to sit and do nothing.
What about you?
I appreciate "me time", and time just to sit and do nothing.
What about you?
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Bernie aka DDL
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You are in a very reflective mood tonight DDL! I'm with you on that one - I just need to stop the treadmill for a while and gather my thoughts!Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to? -
I find I'm getting more selfish, its great.
But not to those that really matter to me.
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Being able to use my bus pass/S.S citizens rail card.
DD Have you just moved to Lostock Hall? or have I been posting with my eyes closed?
Many years ago (1966)
I visited Lostock Hall locomotive shed back in the days when British Railways had steam engines.
Last edited by bubblewrap; 29-11-2009, 08:26 PM.The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
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Not having all that dreadful what's-the-meaning-of-life angst going on. There isn't one - carpe diem!Comment
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Being able to just faff about. It's fab!
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I have to disagree with you on this one, zazen (unprecedented!)
My biggest problem is that I faff too much - always have. In fact, my biggest saying is "If I ever got organised, I'd be dangerous!"
The worst thing about me is that someone gave me ideas beneath my station, to quote the great Terry Pratchett.Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?Comment
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Oh, I've always faffed; it's just now I have more time to faff and don't apologise for it.
See, I've faffed SO much today - that I've now got 2 hours until bedtime to faff some more. Times was, I would still be trying to faff 5 minutes after I should have gone to bed.
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I think I've learnt not to take so much for granted.........But I also loooove me time. xxComment
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I think being older and the kids getting independent it's definitely being a bit more selfish with some me-time.
S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
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Originally posted by zazen999 View Post:
I wish I had your philosophy, Zazen - I have that uncomfortable combination of being a natural faffer and also driven!
So now I'm going to have to learn to be an outstanding chiller
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I think I just appreciate life more.
As a young man I toddled off all over the place and had people aiming things at me but at 18 I was immortal. In my later years, still toddling off and having people aiming things at me, I've realised the transitory nature of life, and how fragile our grip on it really is.Bob Leponge
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No BW, just finally got round to putting exactly where I live. Lostock Hall lost all the train sheds years ago - the land is just a big overgrown space now next to the railway line. But it was because of the railways that Lostock Hall came into being.Originally posted by bubblewrap View PostDD Have you just moved to Lostock Hall? or have I been posting with my eyes closed?
Many years ago (1966) I visited Lostock Hall locomotive shed back in the days when British Railways had steam engines.Bernie aka DDL
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I can't really put my finger on anything in particular, although there have been points in my life where I've had realisations about things. Everytime I do I create a new rule of life and they're all written down in a list.
Rule No.1 is: "Treat everyone as you wish to be treated yourself" and includes such corrollaries as "Everyone is equal" and "No-one is better than you, and you're no better than anyone else".
It wasn't the first rule created, but it's the one that has become so important to me it moved to the top of the list. The more I apply it, the more i appreciate it.
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LadyWayne said last night that I'm getting old.
I was watching Ray Mears and said something along the lines of: "If I had to be stranded on a desert island with either Ray Mears or Bear Grylls I'd chose Ray. I nice warm dry camp at the end of a day, a half decent meal inside me and a comfy (ish) bed. Bear would have you sleeping inside the carcass of a wild boar having eaten the beasts backside, and the camp would be at the top of the highest point he could find - just because."
So, this weekend at Centre Parcs I'm going to go abseiling just to regain some youth that I appear to have dropped somewhere on my travels through life.A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/
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Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.
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