Making a Plan for the Year Ahead

We just got home from food shopping and I said to Anna I am going to write a blog post.  She said “about your shopping experience?” laughing at me.  I hate shopping, I hate waiting in queues, and today I was getting very grumpy, and maybe expressing it just a tiny little bit. So, you [...]

My Personal 30 Day Challenge

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November seems to be a good month to challenge myself, the clocks have went back an hour, its dark and it is one of those nothing months in the lead up to Christmas.  Additionally I have not really pushed myself to a deadline on a personal basis for quite some time, I have been a [...]

I Built a Cage For Myself – What Happened?

I started this website 4 1/2 years ago, and quickly discovered that I liked writing on the net.  Quickly on the heals of that I discovered that I could also make money writing on the web.  So once this website was up and running I started building other websites and then life kinda happened. I [...]

Am I Being Stalked On The Internet

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Or am I just being paranoid?  Does it matter? I own a few websites now and I still find it really freaky when I see many searches to my sites that use my name.  I have my own blog on my own name lesliegilmour.com but I don’t write there much now – however it is [...]

Two Weeks Without A Cigarette

  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 [...]

4 Days Without A Cigarette

Image by bondidwhat via Flickr 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 [...]

I Don't Want to Disappoint You

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 [...]

Finding Out I Had To Change

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 [...]

First Thing in The Morning

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 [...]

Getting Ready For Next Year

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 [...]