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My Life

Two Weeks Without A Cigarette

February 13, 2010

  It is just over two weeks since I had my last cigarette.  Sometimes it feels like I just stopped about ten minutes ago and at others it feels like I have never had a cig in my life – really odd.
I am happy to report that I have not physically touched a cigarette and [...]

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4 Days Without A Cigarette

January 31, 2010

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I stopped smoking on Wednesday after Anna got on the plane.  I didn’t want to stop while she was here, she had her trip back to Prague planned for a while and I had it in my head to stop while she was away.  This was my plan – Anna would [...]

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I Don’t Want to Disappoint You

January 30, 2010

When writing here I have tried to make it relevant to one of the Camino Routes.  All that is about to change, I have wanted to write more often but…
But what?  I wouldn’t like the feed back if it wasn’t about the Camino?  Strange…I don’t normally react like this.
From now on there is going to [...]

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Finding Out I Had To Change

December 15, 2009

Before going on the Camino I though that I would meet new and interesting people, and I did.  I also discovered that the same type of people that annoy me at home annoyed me on the Camino.
For some reason I had thought that the type of people that annoyed me were particular to my country [...]

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First Thing in The Morning

December 10, 2009

I like to have some quiet time when I wake in the morning.  I take my morning coffee out into the garden and feel the trees and the plants that surround me.  My mornings are quiet for a short period before the rush of the day.
I feel grateful that I was born.  I look at [...]

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Getting Ready For Next Year

December 8, 2009

On the first day of the year I try to imagine where I am going this next year.  I write down what I want then I see it in my head, I take a couple of hours to do this and sometimes get quite detailed.  Often though it is a reminder of what is important [...]

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A Wet Long Weekend in Connemara

August 4, 2009

Living as we do in the middle of the city we love to get out into the countryside at the weekend.  Last weekend being a long weekend, Monday was a public holiday, I decided last week that we needed a full weekend in the country walking and relaxing.
We have been to Connemara twice before and [...]

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Reading Too Much News

July 30, 2009

While walking the Camino Frances I did not read a newspaper, listen to TV news, or listen to the radio news.  I had no idea what was happening in the world, it was great – there was a magnificent freedom in it.
For more than a month the world kept turning without my having to watch [...]

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Walking Holidays in Scotland

June 25, 2009

I am biased about going on a walking holiday.  Being originally from Scotland, even though I have not lived there for many years I still think that Scotland has some of the best walking in the world.
This is where I grew up.  I lived in one of the houses in the centre of the photo [...]

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The Camino Changed My Career Plans

April 20, 2009

I was just thinking the other day “how did I get here?” Not in the way of – does the world exist, but how did I end up doing the job I do now.
Five or six years ago I had plans to be a teacher, I was at university studying English and Philosophy. [...]

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