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I love this song, attributed all the time I note to Enya when in fact it is written and performed by Lisa Gerrard, who you will notice sings in a strange language, this is a language Lisa made up when she was a child and explains that this is how she speaks to 'god'....when I was feeling low before my op and when I didn't know what was wrong I took myself to a huge old oak tree that sits by the lake in a park close to home and leant my back against the great trunk of it and asked for strength and it gave me it's strength. That way I felt my own connection to earth, roots deep in the ground........

This song reminds me of those moments ............There is nothing so healing or comforting to me than walking in the park amongst those old trees and wild flowers that have been growing here on earth for so long...hope you enjoy the beautiful song and her amazing voice

We had a long weekend on the Isle of Wight last weekend, both needed some kind of a break, it was warm and sunny yay! how lucky was that? Having never been before it was easy to get to and a very nice place, a little tired looking in parts, smaller than expected, but some of the villages and houses were stunning, we took Joe on the ferry and he coped so well with all the travelling. If you are going to the Isle here's what I reccomend, lunch at The Taverners in Godhsill, a gorgeous little old world village full of nice shops to browse and plenty of places to eat or just to have a coffee
I had salt beef and beetroot sandwich with a bucket of their 'famous' chips, hubby had prawn sandwiches with chips, you will never have tasted chips so good, it was sheer heaven.....in Shanklin the old part of the small town is pretty with thatched pubs on every corner lit up with coloured lights and leading down to Shanklin Chine (sadly closed during our trip) it was buzzing and friendly and everywhere seemed to be thriving, I didn't see one closed pub while there and there are so many places to eat on the Isle, whereas here there is a pub closing every 5 mins

we want to live there now on a house boat

this message is for our lovely Jollyweez, get well soon hun, hope someone can keep us posted on your progess, healing and hugs to you xx

I am going into hospital tomorrow morning at 7.30am so will be on the morning list thank goodness and I am looking forward to getting it oved with , recovery about 6 weeks apparently but I will maybe be able to blog sooner if I'm not too tired or sore! Try and stop me I can see it's going to get boring having nothing to do... so I am leaving you with some of my favourite sites with positive and healing messages...see you all later

http://www.spirit-path.net/options.htm 9another nice spiritual thought provoking site)

http://www.random-acts-of-kindness.co.uk/ (why not?)

http://www.spiritual-home.co.uk/ (lots of in inspiring links etc)

http://www.healingcalm.co.uk/index.html (a wonderful place where you can leave names etc for distance healing)

http://maharaji.net/main1024.html (a favourite meditation site)

http://www.barefootdoctorglobal.com/ (love barefoot doctor)

All of my happy childhod memories are from time spent with family in Wales, my mother is welsh this beautiful welsh folk lullaby makes me cry.......hope you enjoy it, I'm feelin a bit sentinmetal this week....

Mil Harddach Wyt na'r Rhosyn Gwyn

Following seasideman's observation on supermarket plastic packaging here: http://seasideman.blog.co.uk/2009/08/09/a-little-rant-6685216/

It reminded me of an incident at the local supermarket which infuriated me a few weeks ago.

I own several 'bags for life', a misnomer if ever I heard one, but you know what I mean, the re-usable canvas types, but, occasionally, no matter how hard I try I will forget to bring them shopping and then I have to resort to the plastic supermarket bags, now the supermarkets pretending some kind of false moral high ground have started to charge for them and it's beginning to really get up my nose, because it is total hypocrisy and as far removed from saving the environment as far away from saving the environment is ever likely to be!

Just like the 'only one bin collection a fortnight' bin collection and placing plastic bottles and tins in orange bins, it's all about giving us less for more of our hard earned tax payers money! The council would give us just one orange bin and charges a fiver for every other one, guess what, they and our dustbins are all bloody plastic!

So, on this particular day I had forgotten my 'forever bags' and requested some plastic bags at the checkout, I comfort myself with the fact that we always use any supermarket plastic bags as 'poo' bags, and we always use them all and deposit them in doggy bins.

Imagine my surprise when the lady on the checkout actually scowled at me like this... when I smiled and said that they would become poo bags and she showed little enthusiasm for giving me some bags.

'We do sell doggy bags you know' she said, still scowling, 'over there' she added nodding her head in the general direction of the crisp and snacks isle.

'Do you?' I replied a little sarcastically (it had been a long day and she really didn't want to get into a debate with me about the morals or general use of plastic bags)...'Well I said, I don't buy doggy bags, I prefer to recycle your bags, I smiled sweetly, and under my breath and in a whispery kind of voice added 'plus I don't want to line the pockets of your very rich supermarket owners by another single penny'

she scowled again, 'it's worse using our bags, bad for the environment you know' well....nothing but nothing gets my back up quite like being lectured whilst paying good money as a customer and by someone who by the very fact she said this obviously doesn't understand the first thing about the real problem with the environment or who the real culprits are! So I asked her to, rather than lecture me about a few plastic bags, to please write to her bosses asking them why they insist on charging customers now for shopping bags whilst still packaging everything in plastic and cling wrap, even the fruit for Gods sake, by now I am raising my voice and people have started looking... she turned a slightly pink colour and I picked up my plastic bags and flounced out now in a far worse mood than when I had arrived... bloomin cheek!!

Now I have seen some odd hobbies and interests in my time but this website astonished me..take a look you'll see what I mean

it brings a whole new meaning to 'anorak' go on you KNOW you want to have a look

http://www.pylonofthemonth.org/

We are thinking of life on a boat, what do you think? It'd be an adventure wouldn't it? 'Thinking' is the operative word!

Dolly is so flattered by Hunnbunny's compliments and would love to meet soon but before they meet she just wants to know....

hunnybunny said,

"I am a sensitive loving bunny with much to offer a girl like you"

Dolly asks, what exactly is it you have to offer her hunnybunny? Right now it's looking like she may need a bed for the night or two

and "Also I know a fella down the pub who could get you diamonds for a fraction of the price on the high street if you would like some"

this last statement is also of great interest to Dolly, as a girl with expensive tastes she will require high maintenance

Question is..is hunnybunny still interested?

Oh and where can she get those cut price sparklers?

Dolly has emerged from her bed after a weekend binge swearing innocence..hmmm, I might start speaking to her again but not yet, her bags are packed, pink bags of course

I remember the day Jimi died and how sad I felt..he was the best guitarist ever